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Journal
Description: 
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 …
Publisher: 
Wiley‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA
Publication date: 
19 Jun 2012
Authors: 

Wei Zhang, Alexander Thiess, Peter Zalden, Jean‐Yves Raty, Rudolf Zeller, Peter H Dederichs, Matthias Wuttig, Stefan Blügel, Riccardo Mazzarello, Gabriele Cesare Sosso, Giacomo Miceli, Sebastiano Caravati, Davide Donadio, Jörg Behler, Marco Bernasconi, Ralf Stoffel, Marck Lumeij, Volker Deringer, Richard Dronskowski, Fatemeh Tabatabaei, Markus Apel, Efim Brener, Henning Riechert, Peter Rodenbach, Alessandro Giussani, Karthick Perumal, Michael Hanke, Jonas Laehnemann, Martin Dubslaff, Raffaella Calarco, Manfred Burghammer, Alexander Kolobov, Paul Fons, JY Raty, G Ghezzi, P Noé, E Souchier, S Maitrejean, C Bichara, F Hippert

Biblio References: 
Pages: 155-162
Origin: 
Frontiers in Electronic Materials: A Collection of Extended Abstracts of the Nature Conference Frontiers in Electronic Materials, June 17th to 20th 2012, Aachen, Germany