Data-recording material

Abstract

Abstract PURPOSE:To make it possible to record images with high contrast and enable favorable recording with low thermal energy, by providing a reversible recording layer being in a transparent state or a milky white state and capable of transition from one of the two states to the other when being heated, and a base member having a metallic luster and supporting the recording layer. CONSTITUTION:A reversible recording layer R is formed in a thin film shape from a recording material, is in a transparent state or a milky white state at normal temperature, and is capable of transition from one of the two states to the other when being heated. The reversible recording layer R is provided on a base member 10, which has a metallic luster. When this information- recording material is irradiated with light from the face side, the light is reflected by the base member having the metallic luster, in transparent areas of the recording layer R. On the other hand, in milky white areas of the recording layer R, not only the light is reflected diffusedly but also the light transmitted through the layer R while being diffused is reflected by the base member 10 and then again diffused in the milky white areas. Thus, the whiteness degree of the milky white areas is further enhanced, resulting in a higher contrast of images being displayed.

Inventors

• 👤 Izumi Tagiwa

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