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Thin Film Technology for Data Storage Disks
Author(s) -
Strasser G.
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
vakuum in forschung und praxis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.213
H-Index - 13
eISSN - 1522-2454
pISSN - 0947-076X
DOI - 10.1002/vipr.19970090110
Subject(s) - thin film , production (economics) , key (lock) , materials science , planar , nanotechnology , process engineering , engineering , computer science , engineering physics , computer graphics (images) , operating system , economics , macroeconomics
Thin film processing is a key technology for the production of all types of data storage disks. Planar magnetron technology, DC‐, DC‐reactive‐ and RF sputter processes are today industrially available for an economical mass production of all these formats. Data storage disks such as the CDs, the CD‐ROMs, CD‐Rs, MO disks or hard disks have found many applications in our information technology society. Thin‐film deposition is a key technology for the production of all these media. This article discusses the markets for the different formats, the structure of these disks, the challenges for thin film processing and presents the current state of front‐end production technology.