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- Title
Atomic scale insight into the effects of Aluminum doped Sb<sub>2</sub>Te for phase change memory application.
- Authors
Wang, Yong; Wang, Tianbo; Zheng, Yonghui; Liu, Guangyu; Li, Tao; Lv, Shilong; Song, Wenxiong; Song, Sannian; Cheng, Yan; Ren, Kun; Song, Zhitang
- Abstract
To date, the unpleasant trade-off between crystallization speed and thermal stability for most phase change materials is detrimental to achieve phase change memory (PCM) with both features of high-speed and good-retention. However, it is proved that Al doping in Sb2Te, served as storage media in PCM, favors both a high writing speed (6 ns) and a good retention (103 °C), as well as a low power consumption. Judging by experimental and theoretical investigations, doped Al atoms prefer to replace Sb in Sb2Te lattice, strongly bonded with 6 Te atoms, to form a homogeneous phase. While in amorphous Al doped Sb2Te (AST), Al atoms are in tetrahedral environment, firmly bonded with four Sb/Te atoms. The strong bonding in Al centered tetrahedron in amorphous AST can obstruct the collective motion of Sb atoms near the matrix boundary, leading to the improvement in thermal stability and the confinement in grain size.
- Publication
Scientific Reports, 2018, Vol 8, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
2045-2322
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/s41598-018-33421-y