Abstract

With the huge data capacity of 25 gigabytes (GB) per layer and various unique features, Blu-ray (BD) discs have successfully penetrated the retail and rental market^1–2. Characteristics such as high transfer rate (36MB/s in 8× speed); easy to handle; friendly to environment; facile data exchange; compact volume to storage and low cost make BD recordable (BD-R) discs have the potential to be a better solution to archive media^3–4. We develop a dual layer (DL) BD-R disc which has a peculiarity in archive lifetime. After hundreds hours high temperature and high relative humidity chamber test, the jitter value remains within specification. Arrhenius plot shows the theoretical archive lifetime more than 50 years in this DL BD-R disc.

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