Key experimental information on intermediate-range atomic structures in amorphous Ge2Sb2Te5 phase change material

• Hosokawa, Shinya

• Pilgrim, Wolf-Christian

• Höhle, Astrid

• Szubrin, Daniel

• Boudet, Nathalie

• Bérar, Jean-François

• Maruyama, Kenji

• 細川, 伸也

• 丸山, 健二

抄録

type:論文(Article)

Laser-induced crystalline-amorphous phase change of Ge-Sb-Te alloys is the key mechanism enabling the fast and stable writing/erasing processes in rewritable optical storage devices, such as digital versatile disk (DVD) or blu-ray disk. Although the structural information in the amorphous phase is essential for clarifying this fast process, as well as long lasting stabilities of both the phases, experimental works were mostly limited to the short-range order by x ray absorption fine structure. Here we show both the short and intermediate-range atomic structures of amorphous DVD material, Ge2Sb2Te5 (GST), investigated by a combination of anomalous x ray scattering and reverse Monte Carlo modeling. From the obtained atomic configurations of amorphous GST, we have found that the Sb atoms and half of the Ge atoms play roles in the fast phase change process of order-disorder transition, while the remaining Ge atoms act for the proper activation energy of barriers between the amorphous and crystalline phases.

identifier:http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/journal/jap/111/8/10.1063/1.3703570

収録刊行物

• Journal of Applied Physics

  Journal of Applied Physics 111 (8), 083517-083517, 2012-04-15

  American Institute of Physics

キーワード

• 420

詳細情報

• CRID: 1050282812908219648
• NII論文ID: 120005368284
• ISSN: 00218979
• Web Site: http://hdl.handle.net/2298/29231
• 本文言語コード: en
• 資料種別: journal article
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