Phase-change materials for rewriteable data storage

Nature Materials

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 824-832

  Wuttig, Matthias ^a   Yamada, Noboru ^b  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b PANASONIC CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC PHYSICS; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PHASE TRANSITIONS;

DATA-STORAGE APPLICATIONS; LATTICE DISTORTIONS; PHASE-CHANGE MATERIALS;

OPTICAL DATA STORAGE;

EID: 35748985544     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat2009     Document Type: Article

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