Nanoscale nuclei in phase change materials: Origin of different crystallization mechanisms of Ge2Sb2Te5 and AgInSbTe

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 115, Issue 6, 2014, Pages

  Lee, Bong Sub ^a,d   Shelby, Robert M ^b   Raoux, Simone ^b,c,e   Retter, Charles T ^b   Burr, Geoffrey W ^b   Bogle, Stephanie N ^a,f   Darmawikarta, Kristof ^a,g   Bishop, Stephen G ^a   Abelson, John R ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b IBM ALMADEN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^d Invensas Corporation   (United States)

^e HAHN MEITNER INSTITUT   (Germany)

^f UNITED STATES AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

^g INTEL CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS MATERIALS; ANTIMONY COMPOUNDS; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CRYSTALLIZATION; GERMANIUM COMPOUNDS; GROWTH KINETICS; HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; INDIUM COMPOUNDS; NANOCRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; NUCLEATION; PHASE CHANGE MEMORY; PUMPING (LASER); QUENCHING; SILVER COMPOUNDS; TELLURIUM COMPOUNDS; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION;

AMORPHOUS TO CRYSTALLINE TRANSFORMATION; AS-DEPOSITED STATE; CRYSTALLIZATION MECHANISMS; CRYSTALLIZATION PROCESS; FURNACE ANNEALING; KINETICS OF NUCLEATION; QUENCHED-IN NUCLEI; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE;

PHASE CHANGE MATERIALS;

EID: 84897407363     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: 10897550     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4865295     Document Type: Article

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