Phase transition characteristics of Al-Sb phase change materials for phase change memory application

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 103, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Zhou, Xilin ^a,b   Wu, Liangcai ^a   Song, Zhitang ^a   Rao, Feng ^a   Ren, Kun ^a,b   Peng, Cheng ^a   Song, Sannian ^a   Liu, Bo ^a   Xu, Ling ^c   Feng, Songlin ^a  

^a SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF MICROSYSTEM AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS MATRICES; ATOMIC CONFIGURATION; CO-EXISTENCE; CRYSTALLINE REGIONS; CRYSTALLIZATION BEHAVIOR; CRYSTALLIZATION TEMPERATURE; MULTILEVEL DATA; RESISTANCE LEVEL;

AMORPHOUS MATERIALS; CRYSTALLIZATION; PHASE CHANGE MEMORY;

ALUMINUM;

EID: 84882368454     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4818662     Document Type: Article

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