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Ultrafast phase-change logic device driven by melting processes

Desmond Loke, Jonathan M. Skelton, Wei-Jie Wang, Tae-Hoon Lee, Rong Zhao, Tow-Chong Chong, and Stephen R. Elliott
PNAS September 16, 2014 111 (37) 13272-13277; first published September 2, 2014 https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1407633111
Desmond Loke
aDepartment of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1EW, United Kingdom;bDepartment of Engineering Product Development, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore 138682, Singapore; and
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Jonathan M. Skelton
aDepartment of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1EW, United Kingdom;
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Wei-Jie Wang
cData Storage Institute, Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore 117608, Singapore
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Tae-Hoon Lee
aDepartment of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1EW, United Kingdom;
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Rong Zhao
bDepartment of Engineering Product Development, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore 138682, Singapore; and
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Tow-Chong Chong
bDepartment of Engineering Product Development, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore 138682, Singapore; and
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  • For correspondence: sre1@cam.ac.uk towchong@sutd.edu.sg
Stephen R. Elliott
aDepartment of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1EW, United Kingdom;
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  • For correspondence: sre1@cam.ac.uk towchong@sutd.edu.sg
  1. Edited by Alexis T. Bell, University of California, Berkeley, CA, and approved August 1, 2014 (received for review April 25, 2014)

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vol. 111 no. 37 13272-13277
DOI: 
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1407633111
PubMed: 
25197044

Published By: 
National Academy of Sciences
Print ISSN: 
0027-8424
Online ISSN: 
1091-6490
History: 
  • Published in issue September 16, 2014.
  • Published first September 2, 2014.


Author Information

  1. Desmond Lokea,b,1,
  2. Jonathan M. Skeltona,2,
  3. Wei-Jie Wangc,
  4. Tae-Hoon Leea,
  5. Rong Zhaob,
  6. Tow-Chong Chongb,3, and
  7. Stephen R. Elliotta,3
  1. aDepartment of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1EW, United Kingdom;
  2. bDepartment of Engineering Product Development, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore 138682, Singapore; and
  3. cData Storage Institute, Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore 117608, Singapore
  1. Edited by Alexis T. Bell, University of California, Berkeley, CA, and approved August 1, 2014 (received for review April 25, 2014)

Footnotes

  • ↵1Present address: Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139.

  • ↵2Present address: Department of Chemistry, University of Bath, Bath BA2 7AY, United Kingdom.

  • ↵3To whom correspondence may be addressed. Email: sre1{at}cam.ac.uk or towchong{at}sutd.edu.sg.
  • Author contributions: D.L., T.-C.C., and S.R.E. designed research; D.L., J.M.S., and W.-J.W. performed research; D.L., J.M.S., W.-J.W., T.-H.L., and R.Z. analyzed data; and D.L., T.-C.C., and S.R.E. wrote the paper.

  • The authors declare no conflict of interest.

  • This article is a PNAS Direct Submission.

  • This article contains supporting information online at www.pnas.org/lookup/suppl/doi:10.1073/pnas.1407633111/-/DCSupplemental.

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