The roles of the Ge-Te core network and the Sb-Te pseudo network during rapid nucleation-dominated crystallization of amorphous Ge 2Sb 2Te 5

Advanced Functional Materials

Volumn 22, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 2251-2257

  Ohara, Koji ^a   Temleitner, Lászlõ ^a,b   Sugimoto, Kunihisa ^a   Kohara, Shinji ^a,c   Matsunaga, Toshiyuki ^c,d   Pusztai, Lászlõ ^b   Itou, Masayoshi ^a   Ohsumi, Hiroyuki ^e   Kojima, Rie ^d   Yamada, Noboru ^c,d   Usuki, Takeshi ^f   Fujiwara, Akihiko ^a   Takata, Masaki ^a,c,e,g  

^a JAPAN SYNCHROTRON RADIATION RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^c JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^d PANASONIC CORPORATION   (Japan)

^e RIKEN   (Japan)

^f YAMAGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^g UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

amorphous structures; anomalous X ray scattering; data storage; phase change materials

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS PHASE; AMORPHOUS STRUCTURES; ANOMALOUS X-RAY SCATTERING; BOND DISTANCE; CORE NETWORKS; CRITICAL NUCLEATION; CRITICAL NUCLEI; CRYSTALLINE PHASE; CRYSTALLIZATION PROCESS; DATA STORAGE; ELECTRICAL DATA; HIGH TEMPERATURE; PHASE CHANGE; PHASE CHANGES; RING FORMATION; ROOM TEMPERATURE; THEORETICAL APPROACH;

AMORPHOUS MATERIALS; CHEMICAL REACTIONS; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; NUCLEATION; PHASE CHANGE MATERIALS; PHASE STABILITY; TELLURIUM; TELLURIUM COMPOUNDS;

GERMANIUM;

EID: 84861794908     PISSN: 1616301X     EISSN: 16163028     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201102940     Document Type: Article

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