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From a Fundamental Understanding of Phase Change Materials to Optimization Rules for Nonvolatile Optical and Electronic Storage
Phase change materials are commercially used in rewritable optical storage and investigated as non-volatile electronic storage. A short laser or current pulse of high intensity melts a sub-micron sized spot of...
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Article
Phase change materials: From material science to novel storage devices
In recent years, non-volatile solid state memories have in many applications replaced magnetic hard disk drives. While the most popular and successful non-volatile memory is the “FLASH” random access memory, s...
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Article
Electrical properties and crystallization behavior of Sb x Se100−x thin films
The structural transformation and transformation kinetics of Sb x Se100−x films (60 ≤ x ≤ 70) were studied to investigate the feasibility of applying Sb ...
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Article
Influence of do** upon the phase change characteristics of Ge2Sb2Te5
The influence of do** upon the phase change characteristics of Ge2Sb2Te5 (GST) has been determined with a variety of techniques including four-point-probe electrical resistance measurements, grazing incidence X...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
OPTICAL AND ELECTRONIC DATA STORAGE WITH PHASE CHANGE MATERIALS: FROM CRYSTAL STRUCTURES TO KINETICS
We summarize the current understanding of how stoichiometry affects structure, optical and electronic properties and the transition kinetics of phase change materials for rewritable optical and nonvolatile ele...
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Assessment of Se based phase change alloy as a candidate for non-volatile electronic memory applications
The structural, electrical and optical properties of the phase change alloy AgSbSe2 were investigated and compared with its Te-based counterpart AgSbTe2. A huge electrical resistance change of more than four orde...
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Effect of indium do** on Ge2Sb2Te5 thin films for phase-change optical storage
The influence of In do** on the crystallization kinetics of Ge2Sb2Te5 has been investigated using four-point-probe electrical resistance measurements, grazing incidence X-ray diffraction (XRD), X-ray reflecto...