Resonant bonding in crystalline phase-change materials

Nature Materials

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 653-658

  Shportko, Kostiantyn ^a   Kremers, Stephan ^a   Woda, Michael ^a   Lencer, Dominic ^a   Robertson, John ^b   Wuttig, Matthias ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; PHASE CHANGE MEMORY;

COVALENT SEMICONDUCTORS; CRYSTALLINE PHASIS; CRYSTALLINE STATE; DIELECTRIC FUNCTIONS; ELECTRONIC-POLARIZABILITY; OPTICAL DIELECTRIC CONSTANT; TAILORED PROPERTIES; TECHNOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS;

PHASE CHANGE MATERIALS;

EID: 49249088587     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat2226     Document Type: Article

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