Conductive preferential paths of hot carriers in amorphous phase-change materials

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 103, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Cappelli, Andrea ^a   Piccinini, Enrico ^b   Xiong, Feng ^c   Behnam, Ashkan ^c   Brunetti, Rossella ^a   Rudan, Massimo ^b   Pop, Eric ^c,d   Jacoboni, Carlo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^c United States of America   (United States)

^d Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS PHASE-CHANGE MATERIAL; BALANCE EQUATIONS; MICROSCOPIC LEVELS; STANDARD DEVIATION; STATISTICAL VARIABILITY; THRESHOLD CONDITION; THRESHOLD CURRENTS; TRAP-LIMITED CONDUCTION;

CONDUCTIVE MATERIALS; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

AMORPHOUS MATERIALS;

EID: 84883438361     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4819097     Document Type: Article

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