Microscopic origin of the fast crystallization ability of Ge–Sb–Te phase-change memory materials

J Hegedüs, SR Elliott - Nature materials, 2008 - nature.com
Abstract Ge–Sb–Te materials are used in optical DVDs and non-volatile electronic
memories (phase-change random-access memory). In both, data storage is effected by fast …

Insights into the structure of the stable and metastable compounds

JLF Da Silva, A Walsh, H Lee - Physical Review B—Condensed Matter and …, 2008 - APS
Using first-principles calculations, we identify the mechanisms that lead to the lowest energy
structures for the stable and metastable (GeTe) m (Sb 2 Te 3) n (GST) compounds, namely …

Vacancy structures and melting behavior in rock-salt GeSbTe

B Zhang, XP Wang, ZJ Shen, XB Li, CS Wang… - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
Abstract Ge-Sb-Te alloys have been widely used in optical/electrical memory storage.
Because of the extremely fast crystalline-amorphous transition, they are also expected to …

Direct atomic identification of cation migration induced gradual cubic-to-hexagonal phase transition in Ge2Sb2Te5

Y Zheng, Y Wang, T Xin, Y Cheng, R Huang… - Communications …, 2019 - nature.com
Abstract GeTe-Sb2Te3 pseudobinary system, especially Ge2Sb2Te5 alloy, is the most
desirable material to be commercialized in phase change random access memory. Directly …

From phase-change materials to thermoelectrics?

MN Schneider, T Rosenthal, C Stiewe, O Oeckler - 2010 - degruyter.com
Metastable tellurides play an important role as phase-change materials in data storage
media and non-vol atile RAM devices. The corresponding crystalline phases with very …

Epitaxial formation of cubic and trigonal Ge-Sb-Te thin films with heterogeneous vacancy structures

I Hilmi, A Lotnyk, JW Gerlach, P Schumacher… - Materials & Design, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract Preparation of epitaxial Ge-Sb-Te (GST) thin films with heterogeneous vacancy
structures is of special interest for data storage applications such as non-volatile random …

Structure of amorphous : alloys and optical storage

J Akola, RO Jones - Physical Review B—Condensed Matter and Materials …, 2009 - APS
The amorphous structure of Ge 8 Sb 2 Te 11, an alloy used in the Blu-ray Disc, the de facto
successor to digital versatile disk (DVD) optical storage, has been characterized by large …

Structure of the Ge–Sb–Te phase-change materials studied by theory and experiment

Z Sun, S Kyrsta, D Music, R Ahuja… - Solid state …, 2007 - Elsevier
We have studied the structure of GeSb2Te4, GeSb4Te7, and Ge3Sb2Te6 compounds using
theoretical and experimental means. Based on ab initio calculations, we propose the …

Ab initio study on influence of dopants on crystalline and amorphous Ge2Sb2Te5

E Cho, S Han, D Kim, H Horii, HS Nam - Journal of Applied Physics, 2011 - pubs.aip.org
The pronounced effects of dopants such as Si, N, and O atoms, on material properties of Ge
2 Sb 2 Te 5 are investigated at the atomic level using ab initio calculations. In the crystalline …

Superlattice-like Sb50Se50/Ga30Sb70 thin films for high-speed and high density phase change memory application

Y Hu, X Feng, S Li, T Lai, S Song, Z Song… - Applied Physics …, 2013 - pubs.aip.org
Multi-level phase change character of superlattice-like (SLL) Sb 50 Se 50/Ga 30 Sb 70 thin
films was investigated through in-situ film resistance measurement. SLL structure of the thin …