Understanding the electro-thermal processes involved in probe storage on phase-change media

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5069, Issue , 2003, Pages 150-157

  Armand, M ^a   Wright, C D ^a   Aziz, M M ^a   Senkader, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chalcogenide thin film; Electro thermal modeling; Ge2Sb2Te 5; Probe storage

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLIZATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; REACTION KINETICS; THERMAL EFFECTS; THIN FILMS;

ELECTRO-THERMAL MODELING; PHASE-CHANGE MEDIA;

OPTICAL DATA STORAGE;

EID: 0242695762     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.532640     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (15)

1. P. Vettiger, M.Despont, U.Dreschler, U. Durig, "The Millipede - More than one thousand tips for future AFM data storage", IBM J. Res. Develop. 44, 323-340 (2000)
2. 5 films studied by electrical resistance measurements", J. Appl. Phys. 87, 4130-4134 (2000)
3. 5 films, J. Appl. Phys. 89, 3168-3176 (2001)
4. 5 films, J. Appl. Phys., 88, 3926-3933 (2000)
5. S.R. Ovshinsky, H. Fritzsche, "Amorphous semiconductors for switching, memory and imaging applications", IEEE Trans. Elect. Dev. 20, 91-104 (1973)
6. A.E Owen, J.M. Robertson, "Electronic conduction and switching in chalcogenide glasses", IEEE Trans. Elect. Dev. 20, 105-122 (1973)
7. T. Kaplan, D. Adler, "Electrothermal switching in amorphous semiconductors", J. Non-Cryst. Solids 8-10, 538-543 (1972)
8. D.M. Kroll, M.H. Cohen, "Theory of electrical instabilities of mixed electronic and thermal origin", J. Non-Cryst. Solids 8-10, 544-551 (1972)
9. J. R. Bosnell, C. B. Thomas, "Preswitching electrical properties, 'forming', and swiching in amorphous chalcogenide alloy threshold and memory devices", Solid-Stat. Electron., 15, 1261-1271 (1972)
10. M. Avrami, "Kinetics of phase-change 2. Transformation-time relations for random distribution of nuclei", J. Chem. Phys., 8, 212 (1940)
11. 5 thin films", J. Appl. Phys., 86, 774-778 (1999)
12. 5 films", J. Appl. Phys., 92, 3116-3123 (2002)
13. C. Trappe, B. Bechevet, S. Facsko, H. Kurz, "Real time measurements of phase-change dynamics", Jpn. J. Appl. Phys., 37, 2114-2115 (1998)
14. S. Kirkpatrick, "Percolation and conduction", Rev. Mod. Phys., 45, 574-588 (1973)
15. C. Peng, L. Cheng, M. Mansuripur, "Experimental and theoretical investigations of laser-induced crystallization and amorphisation in phase-change optical recording media", J. Appl. Phys., 82, 4183-4191 (1997)