How fragility makes phase-change data storage robust: insights from ab initio simulations
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Zhang, W., Ronneberger, I., Zalden, P., Xu, M., Salinga, M., Wuttig, M., & Mazzarello, R. (2014). How fragility makes phase-change data storage robust: insights from ab initio simulations. Scientific Reports, 4(1).

Authors 7
  1. Wei Zhang (first)
  2. Ider Ronneberger (additional)
  3. Peter Zalden (additional)
  4. Ming Xu (additional)
  5. Martin Salinga (additional)
  6. Matthias Wuttig (additional)
  7. Riccardo Mazzarello (additional)
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