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GeSbTe

Atomic structure

Matsunaga T, Yamada N, Kubota Y, Structures of stable and metastable Ge2Sb2Te5, an intermetallic compound in GeTe-Sb2Te3 pseudo-binary systems, Acta Cryst B 60, 685 (2004)

Yamada N, Matsunaga T, Structure of laser-crystallized Ge2Sb2+xTe5 sputtered thin films for use in optical memory, JAP 88, 7020 (2000)

Nonaka T, Ohbayashi G, Toriumi Y, Mori Y, Hashimoto H, Crystal structure of GeTe and Ge2Sb2Te5 meta-stable phase, TSF 370, 258 (2000)

Electronic properties

I V Karpov, M Mitra, D Kau, G Spadini, Y A Kryukov, V G Karpov, Fundamental drift of parameters in chalcogenide phase change memory, JAP 102, 124503 (2007)

Calculations

D Loke, J M Skelton, L Law, W Wang, M Li, W Song, T Lee, S R Elliott, Guest-Cage Atomic Interactions in a Clathrate-Based Phase-Change Material, AM 26, 1725 (2014)

S Caravati, G C Sosso, M Bernasconi, M Parrinello, Density functional simulations of hexagonal Ge2Sb2Te5 at high pressure, PRB 87, 094117 (2013)

J Akola, J Larrucea, R O Jones, Polymorphism in phase-change materials: melt-quenched and as-deposited amorphous structures in Ge2Sb2Te5 from density functional calculations, PRB 83, 094113 (2011)

B Cai, D A Drabold, S R Elliott, Structural fingerprints of electronic change in the phase-change-material: Ge2Sb2Te5, APL 97, 191908 (2010)

J Akola, R O Jones, Density functional study of amorphous, liquid and crystalline Ge2Sb2Te5: homopolar bonds and/or AB alternation?, JPC 20, 465103 (2008)

J Robertson, K Xiong, P W Peacock, Electronic and atomic structure of Ge2Sb2Te5 phase change memory material, TSF 515, 7538 (2007)

Crystallization-amorphization transition

P Fons, H Osawa, A V Kolobov, T Fukaya, M Suzuki, T Uruga, N Kawamura, H Tanida, J Tominaga, Photoassisted amorphization of the phase-change memory alloy Ge2Sb2Te5, PRB 82, 041203 (2010)

K B Borisenko, Y Chen, S A Song, D Nguyen-Manh, D J H Cockayne, A concerted rational crystallization/amorphization mechanism of Ge2Sb2Te5, JNCS 355, 2122 (2009)

A V Kolobov, J Haines, A Pradel, M Ribes, P Fons, J Tominaga, Y Katayama, T Hammouda, T Uruga, Pressure-induced site-selective disordering of Ge2Sb2Te5: a new insight into phase-change optical recording, PRL 97, 035701 (2006)

Kolobov A V, Fons P, Frenkel A I, Ankudinov A L, Tominaga J, Uruga T, Understanding the phase-change mechanism of rewritable optical media, Nat Mater 3, 703 (2004) – Steimer08, Alkola08 don't beleive in tetrahedral sites

Defects

K Konstantinou, F C Mocanu, T Lee, S R Elliott, Revealing the intrinsic nature of the mid-gap defects in amorphous Ge2Sb2Te5, Nat Commun 10, 3065 (2019) – rev

A V Kolobov, P Fons, J Tominaga, S R Ovshinsky, Vacancy-mediated three-center four-electron bonds in GeTe-Sb2Te3 phase-change memory alloys, PRB 87, 165206 (2013)