Highly tunable β-relaxation enables the tailoring of crystallization in phase-change materials

The crystallization of phase-change materials is relevant to their applications in memory and neuromorphic computing devices. Cheng et al. show that the β-relaxation in Ge15Sb85 can be controlled by thermal annealing, leading to the tunability in its crystallization kinetics by one order of magnitud...

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Main Authors: Yudong Cheng, Qun Yang, Jiangjing Wang, Theodoros Dimitriadis, Mathias Schumacher, Huiru Zhang, Maximilian J. Müller, Narges Amini, Fan Yang, Alexander Schoekel, Julian Pries, Riccardo Mazzarello, Matthias Wuttig, Hai-Bin Yu, Shuai Wei
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2022-11-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-35005-x