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Chapter
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 Structures to Kinetics
Phase change materials possess a unique combination of properties which include a pronounced property contrast between the amorphous and crystalline state, i.e. a high electrical and optical contrast. In parti...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
CHALCOGENIDE ALLOYS AS A BASIS FOR NEW NON-VOLATILE RANDOM ACCESS MEMORIES
In the past decades chalcogenide alloys have been successfully employed for rewritable optical data storage. Beside the optical contrast upon phase change from the amorphous to the crystalline state utilized i...