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COMPUTATIONAL MATERIALS SCIENCE
Volume 61, Issue -, Pages 287-290Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.commatsci.2012.04.044
Keywords
Phase-change memory; Ge-Sb-Te alloys; Liquid phase; First-principles molecular dynamics; Compositional disorder number
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- NSFC [11104109]
- China postdoctoral science foundation [2011M500593]
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Ge-Sb-Te alloys have played a critical role in present nonvolatile optical and electrical storages. It is generally accepted that their data encoding'' (i.e. amorphization) needs the crystal melting and subsequent quenching. Therefore, liquid should be an important intermediate state during the storage. In this study, based on first-principles molecular dynamics we compared the structural properties of liquid Ge-Sb-Te alloys with three compositions: Ge1Sb2Te4, Ge2Sb2Te5, and Ge4Sb1Te5. In long timescale mean square displacements (MSD), we observe that the element coupled state for Ge1Sb2Te4 and Ge2Sb2Te5 is significantly better than that of Ge4Sb1Te5. The careful analyses by pair correlation functions (PCF) and compositional disorder numbers (CDN) show that Ge2Sb2Te5 has the best stability among the three liquids. Bond angle distributions (BAD) further reflect that all the three liquids essentially retain the crystalline character of local structure with 90 degrees bond angle. The present results are helpful to understand the rapid storage technique based on Ge-Sb-Te alloys. (c) 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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