Ultrafast optical manipulation of atomic arrangements in chalcogenide alloy memory materials

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 1260-1270

  Makino, Kotaro ^a   Tominaga, Junji ^b   Hase, Muneaki ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^c JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOYS; CERIUM ALLOYS; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; FLASH MEMORY; GERMANIUM; OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING; OPTICAL DATA STORAGE; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PHASE CHANGE MATERIALS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; PUMPS; TELLURIUM COMPOUNDS;

ATOMIC ARRANGEMENT; CHALCOGENIDE ALLOY; COHERENT MOTION; CRYSTALLINE PHASE TRANSITION; CURRENT GENERATION; FEMTOSECOND LIGHT PULSE; LARGE DATA; LOCAL VIBRATIONS; MEMORY DEVICE; NONTHERMAL; OPTICAL MANIPULATION; PARADIGM SHIFTS; PHASE CHANGES; PICOSECONDS; SILICON-BASED; ULTRA-FAST;

AMORPHOUS MATERIALS;

ALLOY; CHALCOGEN;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; LASER; RADIATION EXPOSURE;

ALLOYS; CHALCOGENS; LASERS;

EID: 78751469037     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.001260     Document Type: Article

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