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Nature Materials 6, 90 - 91 (2007)
doi:10.1038/nmat1832
Phase-change materials: Designing optical media of the future
Friso Jedema1
- Friso Jedema is at NXP Semiconductors, Eindhoven 5656 AA, The Netherlands. e-mail: friso.jedema@nxp.com
Abstract
Over the past two decades, the optical recording industry has empirically improved the properties of phase-change materials for rewritable discs. Now a first step has been taken to use computational design to improve these materials.
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