Phase Change Materials

1. History of Phase Change Memories
Chung H. Lam

Part I. Material Science: Theory and Experiment

2. Density Functional Theory Calculations for Phase Change Materials
Wojciech Wełnic

3. Nature of Glasses
Punit Boolchand, Matthieu Micoulaut, Ping Chen

4. Structure of Amorphous Ge-Sb-Te Solids
Stephen R. Elliott

5. Experimental Methods for Material Selection in Phase-change Recording
Liesbeth Pieterson

6. Scaling Properties of Phase Change Materials
Simone Raoux

7. Crystallization Kinetics
Johannes A. Kalb

8. Short and Long-Range Order in Phase Change Materials
Paul Fons

9. Optical and Electrical Properties of Phase Change Materials
Bong-Sub Lee, Stephen G. Bishop

10. Development of Materials for Third Generation Optical Storage Media
Noboru Yamada

11. Novel Deposition Methods
Delia J. Milliron, Qiang Huang, Yu Zhu

Part II. Applications: Optical, Solid State Memory and Reconfigurable Logic

12. Optical Memory: From 1st to 3rd Generation and its Future
Luping Shi

13. 4th Generation Optical Memories Based on Super-resolution Near-field structure (Super-RENS) and Near-field Optics
Junji Tominaga

14. Phase Change Memory Device Modeling
Daniele Ielmini

15. Phase Change Random Access Memory Advanced Prototype Devices and Scaling
Yi-Chou Chen

16. Phase Change Memory Cell Concepts and Designs
Roberto Bez, Robert J. Gleixner, Fabio Pellizzer, Agostino Pirovano, Greg Atwood

17. Phase Change Random Access Memory Integration
Matthew J. Breitwisch

18. Reconfigurable Logic
James Lyke

Avainsanat: Materials Science, Optical and Electronic Materials, Solid State Physics, Spectroscopy and Microscopy, Microwaves, RF and Optical Engineering, Optics, Optoelectronics, Plasmonics and Optical Devices