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Performance Improvement of Sb Phase Change Thin Film by Y Doping

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Fast reversible laser-induced crystallization of Sb-rich Zn-Sb-Se phase change material with excellent stability

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High speed and high reliability in Ge8Sb92/Ga30Sb70 stacked thin films for phase change memory applications

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Nanostructured ZnSb films composited with Bi2Te3 topological insulators exhibit strongly unusual p–n conduction conversion upon crystallization

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Monatomic Sb thin films alloyed with Sb2S3 enables superior thermal stability and resistance drift by spontaneous self-decomposition

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Period number tunable and thickness-dependent crystallization behavior of Sb/ZnSb-based superlattice-like phase change thin films

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Phase transition behavior and electronic properties of GaSb/Ge2Sb2Te5 superlattice-like structure thin films

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Suppression for an intermediate phase in ZnSb films by NiO-doping

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Study on the physical properties and structure of titanium antimony thin films for phase change memory application

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Tailorable fragile-to-strong kinetics features of metal oxides nanocomposite phase-change antimony films

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Oxygen filling voids and direct element imaging of metastable ZnSb structures by aberration-corrected scanning transmission electron microscopy

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Improvement of phase change speed and thermal stability in Ge5Sb95/ZnSb multilayer thin films for phase change memory application

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Tunable luminescence and energy transfer properties in Ca2NaMg2V3O12: Ln3+ (Dy3+, Sm3+) phosphors

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Tunable luminescence and energy transfer properties in Ca2−xNaMg2V3O12:xEu3+ phosphors

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The realization of insulator-metal transition in a p-type metastable ZnSb by dual-phase nanostructure

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Self-Limited Growth of Nanocrystals in Structural Heterogeneous Phase-Change Materials during the Heating Process

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Crystallization behaviors of W-doped Sb3Te phase change films

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Phase change properties of ZnSb-doped Ge2Sb2Te5 films

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Crystallization kinetics with fragile-to-strong crossover in Zn-Sb-Te supercooled phase-change liquids

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Improved phase-change properties of Sn–Zn–Sb alloys with a two-step crystallization process for multi-level data storage applications

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Overview of the Role of Alloying Modifiers on the Performance of Phase Change Memory Materials

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Nanoarchitectonics of binary semiconductor Sb–Y for the application of phase-change memory device

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