Nanosession: Phase Change Materials

Data di pubblicazione: 19 Giu 2012

RivistaFonte dati: ARCHIVIO

The study of metal‐insulator transitions (MITs) in crystalline solids is a subject of utmost importance, both from the fundamental point of view and for its obvious relevance to the understanding of the transport properties of a vast class of technologically useful materials, including doped semiconductors. This chapter presents the results of NN simulations on the properties of liquid and amorphous GeTe including thermal conductivity and the homogeneous and heterogeneous crystallization of the amorphous. Phase change materials (PCM), recently used extensively in non‐volatile rewritable memory devices, undergo a stable, rapid and reversible transition between a crystalline and an amorphous atomic structure. The coefficients for the Arrhenius function were derived by fitting the simulation results to the experimental data for the crystallization velocity. PCM, and especially Ge‐Sb‐Te (GST) alloys are leading …

Editore
Wiley‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA
Fonte
Frontiers in Electronic Materials: A Collection of Extended Abstracts of the Nature Conference Frontiers in Electronic Materials, June 17th to 20th 2012, Aachen, Germany
ID archivio
db5d8694274bbfc6c5eb91704df28e60
Riferimenti
Pages: 155-162