Phase Change Materials: Science and Applications provides a comprehensive overview of the properties that characterize phase change materials from theoretical and experimental perspectives, with a focus on emerging technological applications.

Analyses current technological boost in the use of phase change materials as solid state memory devices

History of Phase Change Memories.- History of Phase Change Memories.- Material Science: Theory and Experiment.- Density Functional Theory Calculations for Phase Change Materials.- Nature of Glasses.- Structure of Amorphous Ge-Sb-Te Solids.- Experimental Methods for Material Selection in Phase-change Recording.- Scaling Properties of Phase Change Materials.- Crystallization Kinetics.- Short and Long-Range Order in Phase Change Materials.- Optical and Electrical Properties of Phase Change Materials.- Development of Materials for Third Generation Optical Storage Media.- Novel Deposition Methods.- Applications: Optical, Solid State Memory and Reconfigurable Logic.- Optical Memory: From 1st to 3rd Generation and its Future.- 4th Generation Optical Memories Based on Super-resolution Near-field structure (Super-RENS) and Near-field Optics.- Phase Change Memory Device Modeling.- Phase Change Random Access Memory Advanced Prototype Devices and Scaling.- Phase Change Memory Cell Concepts and Designs.- Phase Change Random Access Memory Integration.- Reconfigurable Logic.