Bonding nature of local structural motifs in amorphous GeTe

Angewandte Chemie - International Edition

Volumn 53, Issue 40, 2014, Pages 10817-10820

  Deringer, Volker L ^a   Zhang, Wei ^a   Lumeij, Marck ^a   Maintz, Stefan ^a   Wuttig, Matthias ^a   Mazzarello, Riccardo ^a   Dronskowski, Richard ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

bond theory; crystal orbital overlap populations; molecular dynamics; phase change materials; resistance drift

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS MATERIALS; CHEMICAL BONDS; CHEMICAL STABILITY; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; GERMANIUM; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PHASE CHANGE MEMORY;

AMORPHOUS STRUCTURES; BOND THEORY; CHEMICAL CONSTITUTION; CRYSTALLINE STRUCTURE; GERMANIUM TELLURIDE; ORBITAL OVERLAP; RESISTANCE DRIFTS; WEIGHTED DISTRIBUTION;

PHASE CHANGE MATERIALS;

EID: 85027953556     PISSN: 14337851     EISSN: 15213773     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/anie.201404223     Document Type: Article

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