US 7,542,404 B2
Optical recording media
Keiichiro Yusu, Yokohama (Japan); Sumio Ashida, Yokohama (Japan); Tsukasa Nakai, Hino (Japan); Shinichi Tatsuta, Tokyo (Japan); and Hideki Ito, Kawasaki (Japan)
Assigned to Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Tokyo (Japan)
Filed on Jul. 15, 2005, as Appl. No. 11/181,984.
Claims priority of application No. 2004-286584 (JP), filed on Sep. 30, 2004.
Prior Publication US 2006/0077869 A1, Apr. 13, 2006
Int. Cl. G11B 7/24 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 369—275.1 22 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An optical recording media, comprising:
a disc substrate; and
two or more recording layers arranged apart from each other with a dielectric layer interposed therebetween to cause optical change simultaneously by irradiation with light,
wherein a first recording layer positioned nearest the disc substrate has a higher optical change temperature and a higher extinction coefficient compared with those of a second recording layer and any later recording layer,
wherein the first recording layer and the second recording layer are arranged apart from each other by a distance of 5 nm or more and 100 nm or less.