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Single-element glass to record data

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Monatomic glassy antimony can now be achieved via melt-quenching in a nanoconfined volume in a device setting. In contrast to alloys currently used in phase-change memories, deviation from optimized composition is no longer an issue in this simple material.

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Fig. 1: Amorphous Sb in PCM device.

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