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On an Integrated Approach for Optimizing Substrate Polymers for Future Optical Disc Requirements
Author(s) -
Bruder Friedrich
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
macromolecular materials and engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.913
H-Index - 96
eISSN - 1439-2054
pISSN - 1438-7492
DOI - 10.1002/1439-2054(20011101)286:11<685::aid-mame685>3.0.co;2-z
Subject(s) - optical disc , usability , substrate (aquarium) , computer science , polymer , materials science , 3d optical data storage , polymer substrate , nanotechnology , optoelectronics , human–computer interaction , oceanography , composite material , geology , operating system
Abstract The dynamic development of optical devices for the future blue laser digital versatile disk technology calls for a projection of the usability of the appropriate substrate polymer. As the new hardware (player) is usually not broadly available before market introduction of a new optical data storage format, a direct comparison of different substrate polymers for their usability is not possible. Computer simulation together with a thorough physical understanding of optical disk technology may present a useful tool first to model future optical drives and deduce critical disk requirements. These disk requirements have to be translated into quantitative polymer properties by a polymer physical model in a second step. Molecular modeling and structure property relations can then be used to propose promising monomer structures in a third step. Examples will be given in this presentation how with this strategy important open questions can be answered prior to the availability of future optical disk devices and chemical synthesis.