Abstract
The authors discuss x-ray fluorescence holography (XFH) measurements taken from an epitaxial layer of the digital versatile disk random access memory (DVD-RAM) material Ge2Sb2Te5 grown on a single-crystal GaSb(100) substrate. By using fluorescent photons from the Ge atoms in the matrix, a three-dimensional atomic image was obtained around the Ge atoms in a Ge2Sb2Te5 film; details of the three-dimensional atomic arrangement will aim at clarification of the high-speed writing and erasing mechanism of the laser-induced crystal-amorphous phase transition in this DVD-RAM material. Analysis of the XFH images revealed that the epitaxial layer did not possess a hexagonal structure as in the equilibrium phase of Ge2Sb2Te5, but a cubic structure with tetrahedral site symmetry about Ge atoms, different from the previous powder diffraction result. The present structure may support the umbrella-flip model of the Ge atoms between the octahedral site in the distorted rocksalt crystal and the tetrahedral site in the amorphous phase on the laser-induced phase transition.
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