Phase Change Materials

✍ Scribed by Dr. Chung H. Lam (auth.), Simone Raoux, Matthias Wuttig (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 846
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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 of phase change memories, including the discovery, early systems and advances over time. Density functional theory calculations, experimental methods for materials selection, crystallization kinetics and scaling behavior are among the wide scope of theoretical and experimental topics covered. The history, current status and potential new techniques are discussed in a section devoted to successful application in optical data storage, in additional to valuable coverage of solid state memory and reconfigurable logic applications, currently in developmental stages, soon to enter the market.

Researchers, students and engineers involved with materials science will find Phase Change Materials: Science and Applications a valuable reference.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-XXVI
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
History of Phase Change Memories....Pages 1-14
Front Matter....Pages 15-15
Density Functional Theory Calculations for Phase Change Materials....Pages 17-38
Nature of Glasses....Pages 39-62
Structure of Amorphous Ge-Sb-Te Solids....Pages 63-80
Experimental Methods for Material Selection in Phase-change Recording....Pages 81-98
Scaling Properties of Phase Change Materials....Pages 99-124
Crystallization Kinetics....Pages 125-148
Short and Long-Range Order in Phase Change Materials....Pages 149-174
Optical and Electrical Properties of Phase Change Materials....Pages 175-198
Development of Materials for Third Generation Optical Storage Media....Pages 199-226
Novel Deposition Methods....Pages 227-248
Front Matter....Pages 249-249
Optical Memory: From 1st to 3rd Generation and its Future....Pages 251-284
4th Generation Optical Memories Based on Super-resolution Near-field structure (Super-RENS) and Near-field Optics....Pages 285-298
Phase Change Memory Device Modeling....Pages 299-329
Phase Change Random Access Memory Advanced Prototype Devices and Scaling....Pages 331-354
Phase Change Memory Cell Concepts and Designs....Pages 355-380
Phase Change Random Access Memory Integration....Pages 381-408
Reconfigurable Logic....Pages 409-430
Back Matter....Pages 431-446

✦ Subjects

Optical and Electronic Materials;Solid State Physics;Spectroscopy and Microscopy;Microwaves, RF and Optical Engineering;Optics, Optoelectronics, Plasmonics and Optical Devices