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- ItemIntrinsische Eigenschaften ferromagnetischer Phasen : Magnetwerkstoffe ; Abschlussbericht(Dresden : Leibniz-Institut für Festkörper- und Werkstoffforschung, 2000) Handstein, Axel; Müller, Karl-Hartmut[no abstract available]
- ItemElectrical and optical properties of epitaxial binary and ternary GeTe-Sb2Te3 alloys(London : Nature Publishing, 2018) Boschker, Jos E.; Lü, Xiang; Bragaglia, Valeria; Wang,Ruining; Grahn, Holger T.; Calarco, RaffaellaPhase change materials such as pseudobinary GeTe-Sb2Te3 (GST) alloys are an essential part of existing and emerging technologies. Here, we investigate the electrical and optical properties of epitaxial phase change materials: α-GeTe, Ge2Sb2Te5 (GST225), and Sb2Te3. Temperature-dependent Hall measurements reveal a reduction of the hole concentration with increasing temperature in Sb2Te3 that is attributed to lattice expansion, resulting in a non-linear increase of the resistivity that is also observed in GST225. Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy at room temperature demonstrates the presence of electronic states within the energy gap for α-GeTe and GST225. We conclude that these electronic states are due to vacancy clusters inside these two materials. The obtained results shed new light on the fundamental properties of phase change materials such as the high dielectric constant and persistent photoconductivity and have the potential to be included in device simulations.
- ItemSub-nanometre resolution of atomic motion during electronic excitation in phase-change materials(London : Nature Publishing, 2016) Mitrofanov, Kirill V.; Fons, Paul; Makino, Kotaro; Terashima, Ryo; Shimada, Toru; Kolobov, Alexander, V.; Tominaga, Junji; Bragaglia, Valeria; Giussani, Alessandro; Calarco, Raffaella; Riechert, Henning; Sato, Takahiro; Katayama, Tetsuo; Ogawa, Kanade; Togashi, Tadashi; Yabashi, Makina; Wall, Simon; Brewe, Dale; Hase, MuneakiPhase-change materials based on Ge-Sb-Te alloys are widely used in industrial applications such as nonvolatile memories, but reaction pathways for crystalline-to-amorphous phase-change on picosecond timescales remain unknown. Femtosecond laser excitation and an ultrashort x-ray probe is used to show the temporal separation of electronic and thermal effects in a long-lived (>100 ps) transient metastable state of Ge2Sb2Te5 with muted interatomic interaction induced by a weakening of resonant bonding. Due to a specific electronic state, the lattice undergoes a reversible nondestructive modification over a nanoscale region, remaining cold for 4 ps. An independent time-resolved x-ray absorption fine structure experiment confirms the existence of an intermediate state with disordered bonds. This newly unveiled effect allows the utilization of non-thermal ultra-fast pathways enabling artificial manipulation of the switching process, ultimately leading to a redefined speed limit and improved energy efficiency and reliability of phase-change memory technologies.