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@ARTICLE{Jones:872615,
author = {Jones, Robert O.},
title = {{P}hase change memory materials: {R}ationalizing the
dominance of {G}e/{S}b/{T}e alloys},
journal = {Physical review / B},
volume = {101},
number = {2},
issn = {2469-9950},
address = {Woodbury, NY},
publisher = {Inst.},
reportid = {FZJ-2020-00108},
pages = {024103},
year = {2020},
abstract = {Rewritable optical storage is dominated by alloys of a
small number of elements, overwhelmingly Ge, Sb, and Te. For
over 30 years, Ge/Sb/Te alloys in the composition range
(GeTe)1−x(Sb2Te3)x(0≤x≤1) have been the materials of
choice in commercial devices: all have metastable rock-salt
structures that change little over decades at archival
temperatures, and all contain vacancies (cavities). The
special status of Ge/Sb/Te alloys arises from the close
similarity of their valence orbitals as measured by the
orbital radial moments, so that bonds are stronger than in
other combinations of elements of groups 14–16 with
appropriate valences. The orbital similarity arises from the
irregular changes in atomic orbitals and properties as the
atomic number increases (“secondary periodicity”). Jones
showed [P. R. Soc. London, Ser. A 147, 396 (1934)] that the
simple cubic structure of (metallic) Bi (valence
configuration 6s26p3) is unstable to a distortion to a
(semimetallic) rhombohedral structure. This picture can be
adapted to Ge/Sb/Te alloys to explain the metastable
structure of the above family of compounds where vacancies
almost always occur next to Te atoms, which form one
sublattice of the rock-salt structure. The disorder in the
Ge/Sb/vacancy sublattice is not random.},
cin = {IAS-1 / PGI-1 / JARA-HPC},
ddc = {530},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)IAS-1-20090406 / I:(DE-Juel1)PGI-1-20110106 /
$I:(DE-82)080012_20140620$},
pnm = {142 - Controlling Spin-Based Phenomena (POF3-142) / 143 -
Controlling Configuration-Based Phenomena (POF3-143) /
Density functional calculations with molecular dynamics --
amorphous and crystalline materials $(jiff05_20170501)$},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF3-142 / G:(DE-HGF)POF3-143 /
$G:(DE-Juel1)jiff05_20170501$},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
UT = {WOS:000506583800003},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevB.101.024103},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/872615},
}