Phase change materials: From structures to kinetics

Journal of Materials Research

Volumn 22, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 2368-2375

  Wełnic, Wojciech ^a,b,c   Kalb, Johannes A ^a,d   Wamwangi, Daniel ^a   Steimer, Christoph ^a   Wuttig, Matthias ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b LABORATOIRE DES SOLIDES IRRADIÉS   (France)

^c European Theoretical Spectroscopy Facility (ETSF)

^d Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS MATERIALS; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CRYSTAL GROWTH; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; DIFFERENTIAL THERMAL ANALYSIS; ENTROPY; GLASS TRANSITION; NUCLEATION; OPTICAL CORRELATION; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS; TEMPERATURE;

AB INITIO CALCULATIONS; ELECTRIC CONTRAST; OPTICAL CONTRAST;

PHASE CHANGE MATERIALS;

EID: 34748905391     PISSN: 08842914     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1557/jmr.2007.0301     Document Type: Review

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