Large displacement of germanium atoms in crystalline Ge2 Sb2 Te5

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 86, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1-3

  Shamoto, S ^a   Yamada, N ^b   Matsunaga, T ^c   Proffen, Th ^d   Richardson, J W ^e   Chung, J H ^f   Egami, T ^g  

^a JAPAN ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^b PANASONIC CORPORATION   (Japan)

^c Matsushita Technoresearch Inc   (Japan)

^d LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^f NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONEGATIVITY; LATTICE DISTORTION; PAIR DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION (PDF); VALENCE BAND;

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; CRYSTALLIZATION; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; FERMI LEVEL; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; GERMANIUM; LASER BEAM EFFECTS; NEUTRON DIFFRACTION; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

SEMICONDUCTING GERMANIUM COMPOUNDS;

EID: 17044377602     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1861976     Document Type: Article

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