KSb5S8: A wide bandgap phase-change material for ultra high density rewritable information storage

Advanced Materials

Volumn 15, Issue 17, 2003, Pages 1428-1431

  Kyratsi, Theodora ^a   Chrissafis, Konstantinos ^b   Wachter, Joseph ^a   Paraskevopoulos, Konstantinos M ^b   Kanatzidis, Mercouri G ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATION ENERGY; CRYSTALLIZATION; DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; DIFFERENTIAL THERMAL ANALYSIS; GLASS TRANSITION; LASER BEAMS; OPTICAL DATA STORAGE; PHASE SEPARATION; POTASSIUM COMPOUNDS; RATE CONSTANTS; STOICHIOMETRY; X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS;

CRYSTAL-GLASS TRANSITION; ULTRA HIGH DENSITY REWRITABLE INFORMATION STORAGE; WIDE BANDGAP PHASE-CHANGE OPTICAL MEMORY MATERIAL;

SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS;

EID: 0141853155     PISSN: 09359648     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/adma.200304994     Document Type: Article

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