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Phase-change materials

Designing optical media of the future

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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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Figure 1: Schematic representation of a Blu-ray optical recording system.
Figure 2: The Ge–Sb–Te ternary system.

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