Phase-change materials: Vibrational softening upon crystallization and its impact on thermal properties

Advanced Functional Materials

Volumn 21, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 2232-2239

  Matsunaga, Toshiyuki ^a,b   Yamada, Noboru ^a,c   Kojima, Rie ^a   Shamoto, Shinichi ^c   Sato, Masugu ^b   Tanida, Hajime ^b   Uruga, Tomoya ^b   Kohara, Shinji ^b   Takata, Masaki ^b,d,e   Zalden, Peter ⁱ   Bruns, Gunnar ⁱ   Sergueev, Ilya ^f   Wille, Hans Christian ^g   Hermann, Raphaël Pierre ^h,i   Wuttig, Matthias ⁱ  

^a PANASONIC CORPORATION   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SYNCHROTRON RADIATION RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^c JAPAN ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^d SPring 8/RIKEN ^*  (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^f EUROPEAN SYNCHROTRON RADIATION FACILITY   (France)

^g DESY   (Germany)

^h FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

anharmonic lattice modes; condensed matter; gamma ray spectroscopy; phase change materials; phonon measurements; thermal conduction

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS SOLIDS; ANHARMONIC; ANHARMONIC LATTICE MODES; CONDENSED MATTER; CRYSTALLINE ORDER; CRYSTALLINE PHASE; CRYSTALLINE STATE; GAMMA-RAY SPECTROSCOPY; LOW THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; OPTICAL MODES; OPTICAL PHONON MODES; THERMAL AND ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; THERMAL CONDUCTION; THERMAL DISPLACEMENTS; TRANSPORT OF CHARGE;

ACOUSTIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY; AMORPHOUS MATERIALS; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; CRYSTALLIZATION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY OF SOLIDS; ELECTRIC PROPERTIES; GAMMA RAYS; PHONONS; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY OF SOLIDS; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

PHASE CHANGE MATERIALS;

EID: 79959524689     PISSN: 1616301X     EISSN: 16163028     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201002274     Document Type: Article

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