Tunable nanophotonics enabled by chalcogenide phase-change materials

S Abdollahramezani, O Hemmatyar, H Taghinejad… - …, 2020 - degruyter.com
Nanophotonics has garnered intensive attention due to its unique capabilities in molding the
flow of light in the subwavelength regime. Metasurfaces (MSs) and photonic integrated …

A review of germanium-antimony-telluride phase change materials for non-volatile memories and optical modulators

P Guo, AM Sarangan, I Agha - Applied sciences, 2019 - mdpi.com
Chalcogenide phase change materials based on germanium-antimony-tellurides (GST-
PCMs) have shown outstanding properties in non-volatile memory (NVM) technologies due …

Understanding the phase-change mechanism of rewritable optical media

AV Kolobov, P Fons, AI Frenkel, AL Ankudinov… - Nature materials, 2004 - nature.com
Present-day multimedia strongly rely on rewritable phase-change optical memories. We
demonstrate that, different from the current consensus, Ge2Sb2Te5, the material of choice in …

Structure of phase change materials for data storage

Z Sun, J Zhou, R Ahuja - Physical review letters, 2006 - APS
Phase change materials based on chalcogenide alloys play an important role in optical and
electrical memory devices. Both applications rely on the reversible phase transition of these …

Logic computation in phase change materials by threshold and memory switching

M Cassinerio, N Ciocchini, D Ielmini - Advanced Materials, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Moore's law for complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) integrated circuits
predicts that the number of devices per chip increases by a factor 2 every two years.[1] …

Amorphous-to-crystal transition of nitrogen-and oxygen-doped Ge2Sb2Te5 films studied by in situ resistance measurements

S Privitera, E Rimini, R Zonca - Applied physics letters, 2004 - pubs.aip.org
The amorphous-to-crystal transition has been studied through in situ resistance
measurements in Ge2Sb2Te5 thin films doped by ion implantation with nitrogen or oxygen …

Emerging phase change memory devices using non-oxide semiconducting glasses

S Agarwal, P Lohia, DK Dwivedi - Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids, 2022 - Elsevier
In the new computing world, phase-change memory (PCM) has recently evolved as a non-
volatile key-enabling technology that has been used as memory storage. PCM has also …

Active-Tuning and Polarization-Independent Absorber and Sensor in the Infrared Region Based on the Phase Change Material of Ge2Sb2Te5 (GST)

Z Guo, X Yang, F Shen, Q Zhou, J Gao, K Guo - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
Abstract Phase-change materials (PCMs), possessing thermo-optic and thermo-electric
properties, have constantly enabled the rewritable optical data storage and the …

Structural transition and enhanced phase transition properties of Se doped Ge2Sb2Te5 alloys

EM Vinod, K Ramesh, KS Sangunni - Scientific reports, 2015 - nature.com
Abstract Amorphous Ge2Sb2Te5 (GST) alloy, upon heating crystallize to a metastable NaCl
structure around 150° C and then to a stable hexagonal structure at high temperatures (≥ …

Intrinsic complexity of the melt-quenched amorphous GeSbTe memory alloy

M Krbal, AV Kolobov, P Fons, J Tominaga… - Physical Review B …, 2011 - APS
Through the use of first-principles Ge K-edge XANES simulations we demonstrate that the
structure of melt-quenched amorphous Ge-Sb-Te is intrinsically complex and is a mixture of …