Polarization Dependent Optical Control of Atomic Arrangement in Multilayer Ge-Sb-Te Phase Change Materials

Kotaro Makino, Junji Tominaga, Alexander V. Kolobov +2

We report the optical perturbation of atomic arrangement in the layered GeTe/Sb_{2}Te_{3} phase change memory material. To observe the structural change, the coherent A_{1} mode of…