Market Trends:
Breakthroughs implemented in the professional Optical Data Storage Market become available in mass volumes to the consumers in the Infotainment media market. New applications as HDTV require ever higher storage densities together with easy and quick access to the stored data. Blue Ray Technology is now entering this consumer media market.
These trends require ever more high quality,
defect free, low roughness and dynamic stable substrates at increasing rotation speeds.
Media manufacturing is now omnipresent all over the globe for well known formats as CD, CD-R(W), DVD and DVD+/-R(W).
Extreme short delivery schedules and challenging prices require short throughput times, high productivity at low costs.
Understanding and controlling the mastering process is a key requirement in the first step in the manufacturing of Optical Media.

		Higher storage density Shorter wavelength lasers High NA lenses Smaller pit sizes Higher mastering speeds