Optisches Aufzeichnungsmedium

摘要

There is provided an optical recording medium having a phase-change recording layer formed based on a drastically new concept of making the content of Mn still higher than the prior art while using Sb as a main component. The optical recording medium(1) has a recording layer(5) composed of a plurality of elements, and the recording layer(5) contains Sb, and also has an Mn content of more than 20 atomic % but not more than 40 atomic %, on condition that the total amount of all the elements composing the recording layer(5) is 100 atomic %.