Understanding the phase-change mechanism of rewritable optical media

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2004-09-12
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  • https://www.springer.com/tdm
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  • 10.1038/nmat1215
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Springer Science and Business Media LLC

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Present-day multimedia strongly rely on rewritable phase-change optical memories. We demonstrate that, different from the current consensus, Ge(2)Sb(2)Te(5), the material of choice in DVD-RAM, does not possess the rocksalt structure but more likely consists of well-defined rigid building blocks that are randomly oriented in space consistent with cubic symmetry. Laser-induced amorphization results in drastic shortening of covalent bonds and a decrease in the mean-square relative displacement, demonstrating a substantial increase in the degree of short-range ordering, in sharp contrast to the amorphization of typical covalently bonded solids. This novel order-disorder transition is due to an umbrella-flip of Ge atoms from an octahedral position into a tetrahedral position without rupture of strong covalent bonds. It is this unique two-state nature of the transformation that ensures fast DVD performance and repeatable switching over ten million cycles.

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  • Nature Materials

    Nature Materials 3 (10), 703-708, 2004-09-12

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