Chalcogenides Metastability and Phase Change Phenomena /

• Main Authors: Kolobov, Alexander V. (Author), Tominaga, Junji (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2012.
• Series: Springer Series in Materials Science, 164
• Subjects: Materials science.; Optics.; Optoelectronics.; Plasmons (Physics).; Engineering.; Optical materials.; Electronic materials.; Materials Science.; Optical and Electronic Materials.; Optics, Optoelectronics, Plasmonics and Optical Devices.; Engineering, general.

A state-of-the-art description of metastability observed in chalcogenide alloys is presented with the accent on the underlying physics. A comparison is made between sulphur(selenium)-based chalcogenide glasses, where numerous photo-induced phenomena take place entirely within the amorphous phase, an...

Table of Contents:

• Essentials of amorphous semiconductors
• Photo-induced phenomena in S- and Se-based chalcogenides.-Metastability in Te-based chalcogenides
• Phase change in Te-based alloys for memory applications
• Phase-change optical data storage
• Super-resolution near-field sructure (Super-RENS) optical discs
• Ovonic unified memories
• What comes next.