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Around the phase-change cycle

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The systematic development of phase-change materials has been hampered by experimental and computational difficulties. The first successful modelling of the full phase-change cycle therefore closes an important gap.

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Figure 1: Phase-change media conquering the consumer world.
Figure 2: Experimental measurements of the X-ray absorption near-edge structure at the Ge K-edge.

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  1. Alexander V. Kolobov is at the Center for Applied Near-Field Optics Research, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8562, Japan. a.kolobov@aist.go.jp,

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Kolobov, A. Around the phase-change cycle. Nature Mater 7, 351–353 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat2171

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