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@ARTICLE{Dck:867923,
author = {Dück, Matthias M. and Schäfer, Tobias and Jakobs, Stefan
and Schön, Carl‐Friedrich and Niehaus, Hannah and
Cojocaru‐Mirédin, Oana and Wuttig, Matthias},
title = {{D}isorder {C}ontrol in {C}rystalline {G}e{S}b 2 {T}e 4 and
its {I}mpact on {C}haracteristic {L}ength {S}cales},
journal = {Physica status solidi / Rapid research letters Rapid
research letters [...]},
volume = {13},
number = {4},
issn = {1862-6270},
address = {Weinheim},
publisher = {Wiley-VCH},
reportid = {FZJ-2019-06521},
pages = {1800578 -},
year = {2019},
abstract = {Crystalline GeSb2Te4 (GST) is a remarkable material, as it
allows to continuously tune the electrical resistance by
orders of magnitude without involving a structural phase
transition or stoichiometric changes. While well‐ordered
specimen are metallic, increasing amounts of disorder
eventually lead to an insulating state with vanishing
conductivity in the 0 K limit, but a similar number of
charge carriers. Hence, GST provides ideal grounds to
explore the impact of disorder on transport properties.
Here, a sputter‐deposition process is employed that
enables growing biaxially textured GST films with large
grain sizes on mica substrates. The resulting films exhibit
a systematic variation between metallic and truly insulating
specimen upon varying deposition temperature. Transport
measurements reveal that their electron mean free path can
be altered by a factor of 20, while always remaining more
than an order of magnitude smaller than the lateral grain
size. This proves unequivocally that grain boundaries play a
negligible role for electron scattering, while intra‐grain
scattering, presumably by disordered vacancies, dominates.
These findings underline that the insulating state and the
system's evolution toward metallic conductivity are
intrinsic properties of the material.},
cin = {PGI-10},
ddc = {530},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)PGI-10-20170113},
pnm = {521 - Controlling Electron Charge-Based Phenomena
(POF3-521)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF3-521},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
UT = {WOS:000465029000006},
doi = {10.1002/pssr.201800578},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/867923},
}