• DocumentCode
    2920064
  • Title

    Laser-induced Ge Atom Switching as aKey to Understanding Phase-change Optical Media

  • Author

    Kolobov, A.V. ; Fons, P. ; Tominaga, J. ; Frenkel, A.I. ; Ankudinov, A.L. ; Uruga, T.

  • Author_Institution
    Center for Applied Near-Field Optics Research (CANFOR), National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan; a.kolobov@aist.go.jp
  • fYear
    2005
  • fDate
    30-02 Aug. 2005
  • Firstpage
    102
  • Lastpage
    103
  • Abstract
    We demonstrate that high performance of re-writable DVDs is due to a very unusual nature of amorphization which is not simple disordering but consists of reversible lase-induced switch of Ge atoms between octahedral and tetrahedral sites.
  • Keywords
    Amorphous materials; Atom lasers; Atom optics; Atomic beams; Crystalline materials; Crystallization; Electromagnetic wave absorption; Optical films; Optical scattering; Tellurium;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2005. CLEO/Pacific Rim 2005. Pacific Rim Conference on
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-9242-6
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CLEOPR.2005.1569365
  • Filename
    1569365