Dynamic theory of crystallization in Ge2Sb2.3Te5 phase-change optical recording media

Applied Optics

Volumn 39, Issue 35, 2000, Pages 6695-6701

  Wright, Ewan M ^a   Khulbe, Pramod K ^a   Mansuripur, Masud ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS MATERIALS; CRYSTALLIZATION; GERMANIUM COMPOUNDS; NUCLEATION; PHASE TRANSITIONS; REFLECTION; SUPERSATURATION; THIN FILMS;

SHORT-PULSE EXCITATION;

OPTICAL RECORDING;

EID: 0011151949     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.39.006695     Document Type: Article

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