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Integrated read/write head for ferroelectric optical media

Patent 6046973 Issued on April 4, 2000. Estimated Expiration Date: Icon_subject January 7, 2019. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.

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Inventor

Application

No. 227095 filed on 01/07/1999

US Classes:

369/126, Electrical modification or sensing of storage medium (e.g., capacitive, resistive, electrostatic charge)369/275.2, Erasable, reversible or re-recordable369/283, Layered (e.g., permanent protective layer)369/288, Specified material430/270.11, Optical recording nonstructural layered product having a radiation sensitive composition layer claimed or solely disclosed as optically reorderable and optically machine readable430/435Using identified developer

Examiners

Primary: Dinh, Tan
Assistant: Chu, Kim-Kwok

International Classes

G11B 009/00
G11B 007/24

Abstract

An integrated read/write head structure saves and retrieves saved data stored in storage locations on a ferroelectric optical storage medium. A first ultra-violet light source generates a single beam for exciting the electrons of a ferroelectric molecule of the optical storage medium. An induced electric field transducer orients the potential difference of the ferroelectric molecule during saving data. A second ultra-violet light source generates a single beam and a MOSFET transistor detects the electric fields from a ferroelectric molecule.

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  • A.L. Kholkin, Non-Destructive Polarisation Readout by UV Illumination of Ferroelectric Thin Films, Research 96-7, 1 page
  • Polar Organic And Ferroelectric Surfaces, Nonlinear Optics Laboratory Annual Report 1996, 6 page
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