Phase Change Materials

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Raoux, Simone (Editor), Wuttig, Matthias (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2009.
• Edition: 1.
• Subjects: Materials science.; Solid state physics.; Optics.; Optoelectronics.; Plasmons (Physics).; Spectroscopy.; Microscopy.; Microwaves.; Optical engineering.; Optical materials.; Electronic materials.; Materials Science.; Optical and Electronic Materials.; Solid State Physics.; Spectroscopy and Microscopy.; Microwaves, RF and Optical Engineering.; Optics, Optoelectronics, Plasmonics and Optical Devices.

Phase Change Materials: Science and Applications provides a comprehensive overview of the properties that characterize phase change materials from theoretical and experimental perspectives, with a focus on emerging technological applications. An informative introductory chapter provides the history...

Table of Contents:

• History of Phase Change Memories
• History of Phase Change Memories
• Material Science: Theory and Experiment
• Density Functional Theory Calculations for Phase Change Materials
• Nature of Glasses
• Structure of Amorphous Ge-Sb-Te Solids
• Experimental Methods for Material Selection in Phase-change Recording
• Scaling Properties of Phase Change Materials
• Crystallization Kinetics
• Short and Long-Range Order in Phase Change Materials
• Optical and Electrical Properties of Phase Change Materials
• Development of Materials for Third Generation Optical Storage Media
• Novel Deposition Methods
• Applications: Optical, Solid State Memory and Reconfigurable Logic
• Optical Memory: From 1st to 3rd Generation and its Future
• 4th Generation Optical Memories Based on Super-resolution Near-field structure (Super-RENS) and Near-field Optics
• Phase Change Memory Device Modeling
• Phase Change Random Access Memory Advanced Prototype Devices and Scaling
• Phase Change Memory Cell Concepts and Designs
• Phase Change Random Access Memory Integration
• Reconfigurable Logic.