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@ARTICLE{Matsunaga:14072,
author = {Matsunaga, T. and Akola, J. and Kohara, S. and Honma, T.
and Kobayashi, K. and Ikenaga, E. and Jones, R. O. and
Yamada, N. and Takata, M. and Kojima, R.},
title = {{F}rom local structure to nanosecond recrystallization
dynamics in {A}g{I}n{S}b{T}e phase-change materials},
journal = {Nature materials},
volume = {10},
issn = {1476-1122},
address = {Basingstoke},
publisher = {Nature Publishing Group},
reportid = {PreJuSER-14072},
year = {2011},
note = {This work was supported by Core Research for Evolutional
Science and Technology (CREST) 'X-ray pinpoint structural
measurement project-Development of the spatial-and
time-resolved structural study for nano-materials and
devices' and by the Academy of Finland and the Japan Science
and Technology Agency through the Strategic Japanese-Finnish
Cooperative Program on 'Functional materials'. The
synchrotron radiation experiments were approved by the Japan
Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute (proposal Nos
2007A1223, 2008A1409 and 2009A12386), and all calculations
were carried out on the Jugene (IBM BlueGene/P) and Juropa
(Xeon 5570) computers in the Forschungszentrum Julich with
grants from the John von Neumann Institute for Computing and
the Forschungszentrum Julich. We thank N. Yasuda and Y.
Fukuyama for assistance in the density estimation
measurement and H-P. Komsa for providing the initial
648-atom system coordinates for crystalline AIST.},
abstract = {Phase-change optical memories are based on the
astonishingly rapid nanosecond-scale crystallization of
nanosized amorphous 'marks' in a polycrystalline layer.
Models of crystallization exist for the commercially used
phase-change alloy Ge(2)Sb(2)Te(5) (GST), but not for the
equally important class of Sb-Te-based alloys. We have
combined X-ray diffraction, extended X-ray absorption fine
structure and hard X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy
experiments with density functional simulations to determine
the crystalline and amorphous structures of
Ag(3.5)In(3.8)Sb(75.0)Te(17.7) (AIST) and how they differ
from GST. The structure of amorphous (a-) AIST shows a range
of atomic ring sizes, whereas a-GST shows mainly small rings
and cavities. The local environment of Sb in both forms of
AIST is a distorted 3+3 octahedron. These structures suggest
a bond-interchange model, where a sequence of small
displacements of Sb atoms accompanied by interchanges of
short and long bonds is the origin of the rapid
crystallization of a-AIST. It differs profoundly from
crystallization in a-GST.},
keywords = {J (WoSType)},
cin = {PGI-1},
ddc = {610},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)PGI-1-20110106},
pnm = {Grundlagen für zukünftige Informationstechnologien},
pid = {G:(DE-Juel1)FUEK412},
shelfmark = {Chemistry, Physical / Materials Science, Multidisciplinary
/ Physics, Applied / Physics, Condensed Matter},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
pubmed = {pmid:21217690},
UT = {WOS:000286512200020},
doi = {10.1038/nmat2931},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/14072},
}