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Call for Papers / MRS Symposium H
Chalcogenide-Based
Phase-Change Materials for Reconfigurable Electronics
Session
Topics | Joint Sessions | Invited
Speakers | Organizers | Abstract
Submission
Compounds such as GeTe, Sb2Te3,
and alloys such as Ge2Sb2Te5, undergo dramatic changes
of optical and electrical properties through a rapid phase
change between polycrystalline and amorphous states. This
phenomenon has already been exploited in rewriteable DVDs
and is emerging in some electronic, nonvolatile memories.
These materials are also candidates for a variety of reconfigurable
applications in RF circuitry, antennae, analog circuits,
and even as reconfigurable wiring harnesses. While they have
been exploited technologically, there are many fundamental
questions to be answered. The goal of this symposium is to
bring together the technological and scientific communities to identify outstanding,
fundamental problems, to present technological trends, and to share current
scientific results. We foresee a mix of physicists, chemists, materials scientists,
device physicists, and process engineers. |
Session
Topics
Symposium topics will include, but not be limited to:
- Physics of chalcogenide alloys (microscopic structure
and spectroscopy)
- Mechanism for rapid phase change
- Novel chalcogenide devices
- Emerging materials
- Materials science of chalcogenide reliability
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Joint
Sessions
A
joint session is anticipated with Symposium
G: Science and Technology of Nonvolatile Memories.
This session will focus on applications beyond nonvolatile, electronic memory.
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Invited
Speakers
Invited speakers include (partial list): Stephen
Bishop (Univ. of Illinois-Urbana), James
Chelikowsky (Univ. of Texas-Austin), Paul
Fons (National Inst. of Advanced Industrial
Science and Technology, Tsukuba, Japan), Steven
Hudgens (Ovonyx, Inc.), M. Paisler (North
Carolina State Univ.), J. Tominaga (NIAIST,
Ctr. for Applied Near-Field Optics Research, Japan), Guy
Wicker (Ovonyx, Inc.), and N. Yamada (Panasonic
Corp). |
Symposium
Organizers
Arthur
H. Edwards
Air
Force Research Laboratory
AFRL/VSSE, Bldg. 914
3550 Aberdeen Ave. SE
KAFB, NM 87117-5776
Tel 505-853-6042
Fax 505-846-2290
edwardsa@afrl.kirtland.af.mil
P.
Craig Taylor
University
of Utah
Dept. of Physics
115 S. 1400 E., Rm. 201
Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0830
Tel 801-581-8751
Fax 801-581-4801
craig@physics.utah.edu
Jon
Maimon
Ovonyx,
Inc.
8665 Sudley Rd.
#263, Manassas, VA 20110
Tel 703-367-3987
Fax 703-367-3540
jon.maimon@baesystems.com
Alex
Kolobov
National
Institute of Advanced Industrial Science & Technology
Center
for Applied Near-Field Optics Research
Tsukuba, Ibaraki
305-8562, Japan
Tel 81-298-61-2934
Fax 81-298-61-2939
a.kolobov@aist.go.jp
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