Behavior of GeSbTeBi phase-change optical recording media under subnanosecond pulsed laser irradiation

Applied Optics

Volumn 43, Issue 20, 2004, Pages 4033-4040

  Watabe, Kazuo ^a   Polynkin, Pavel ^b   Mansuripur, Masud ^b  

^a TOSHIBA CORPORATION   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMORPHIZATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; LASER BEAM EFFECTS; OPTICAL RECORDING; PHASE TRANSITIONS; QUENCHING;

HEAT DIFFUSION; MARK FORMATION; NANOSECONDS; PHASE-CHANGE;

GERMANIUM COMPOUNDS;

EID: 3142765980     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.43.004033     Document Type: Article

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