Light-assisted physical aging in chalcogenide glasses: Dependence on the wavelength of incident photons

Journal of Materials Research

Volumn 26, Issue 18, 2011, Pages 2420-2427

  Kozdras, Andrzej ^a   Golovchak, Roman ^b,c   Shpotyuk, Oleh ^b,c   Szymura, Stefan ^d   Saiter, Allisson ^e   Saiter, Jean Marc ^e  

^a OPOLE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^b Lviv Scientific Research Institute of Materials of SRC Carat   (Ukraine)

^c JAN DLUGOSZ UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^d School of Higher Vocational Education in Nysa   (Poland)

^e LECAP   (France)

Author keywords

Amorphous; Differential thermal analysis; Radiation effects

Indexed keywords

CHALCOGEN ATOMS; CHALCOGENIDE GLASS; GE ATOM; GE-SE GLASS; LIGHT-INDUCED PHENOMENA; PHYSICAL AGING; SPECTRAL DEPENDENCES;

DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; DIFFERENTIAL THERMAL ANALYSIS; GERMANIUM; GLASS; PHASE CHANGE MEMORY; RADIATION EFFECTS;

LIGHT;

EID: 80053953491     PISSN: 08842914     EISSN: 20445326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1557/jmr.2011.264     Document Type: Article

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