Crystal nucleation and growth processes in Ge2Sb2Te5
- 31 May 2004
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters
- Vol. 84 (22), 4448-4450
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1759063
Abstract
The kinetics of the amorphous-to-crystal transition in thin films have been studied through in situ transmission electron microscopy analyses. By following the time evolution of the grain density and size, the growth velocity and the nucleation rate have been separately measured at different annealing temperatures. Activation energies of and have been obtained for the nucleation rate and the growth velocity, respectively. The barrier energy for the nucleation of a critical nucleus has been evaluated, and the scalability of phase change nonvolatile memories has been estimated.
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