Improved thermal and electrical properties of Al-doped Ge 2 Sb 2 Te 5 films for phase-change random access memory

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2012

Authors

Wang, Guoxiang
Shen, Xiang
Nie, Qiuhua
Wang, Rongping
Wu, Liangcai
Lv, Yegang
Chen, Fen
Fu, Jing
Dai, Shixun
Li, Jun

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Institute of Physics Publishing

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Al x(Ge 2Sb 2Te 5) 100-x materials with different Al contents are systemically studied for applications in phase-change random access memory (PRAM) devices. Al-doped Ge 2Sb 2Te 5 (GST) films show better thermal stability than GST because they do not have

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Keywords: Al content; Annealing temperatures; Crystalline phasis; Crystallization process; Face-centred cubic; Local bonding; On/off ratio; Orders of magnitude; Phase-change random access memory; Threshold currents; Crystalline materials; Electric properties; Germa

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Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics

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