Polymorphism in phase-change materials: Melt-quenched and as-deposited amorphous structures in Ge2Sb2Te5 from density functional calculations

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 83, Issue 9, 2011, Pages

  Akola, J ^a,b,c   Larrucea, J ^c   Jones, R O ^a,d  

^a FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^b TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

^d RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

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EID: 79961001073     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.83.094113     Document Type: Article

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