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@ARTICLE{Kalikka:173250,
author = {Kalikka, J. and Akola, J. and Jones, R. O.},
title = {{S}imulation of crystallization in
${\mathrm{{G}e}}_{2}{\mathrm{{S}b}}_{2}{\mathrm{{T}e}}_{5}$:
{A} memory effect in the canonical phase-change material},
journal = {Physical review / B},
volume = {90},
number = {18},
issn = {1098-0121},
address = {College Park, Md.},
publisher = {APS},
reportid = {FZJ-2014-06661},
pages = {184109},
year = {2014},
abstract = {Crystallization of amorphous Ge2Sb2Te5 (GST) has been
studied using four extensive (460 atoms, up to 4 ns) density
functional/molecular dynamics simulations at 600 K. This
phase change material is a rare system where crystallization
can be simulated without adjustable parameters over the
physical time scale, and the results could provide insight
into order-disorder processes in general. Crystallization is
accompanied by an increase in the number of ABAB squares
(A:Ge,Sb;B:Te), percolation, and the occurrence of
low-frequency localized vibration modes. A sample with a
history of order crystallizes completely in 1.2 ns, but
ordering in others was less complete, even after 4 ns. The
amorphous starting structures without memory display phases
(>1ns) with subcritical nuclei (10–50 atoms) ranging from
nearly cubical blocks to stringlike configurations of ABAB
squares and AB bonds extending across the cell. Percolation
initiates the rapid phase of crystallization and is coupled
to the directional p-type bonding in metastable GST.
Cavities play a crucial role, and the final ordered
structure is distorted rock salt with a face-centered cubic
sublattice containing predominantly Te atoms. We comment on
earlier models based on smaller and much shorter
simulations.},
cin = {IAS-1 / PGI-1},
ddc = {530},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)IAS-1-20090406 / I:(DE-Juel1)PGI-1-20110106},
pnm = {422 - Spin-based and quantum information (POF2-422)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF2-422},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
UT = {WOS:000350226500001},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevB.90.184109},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/173250},
}