Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Studies of Tellurium and Antimony Bonding in Crystal Sb2Te3, GeTe, and Ge2Sb2Te5

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As a starting point in understanding the magnetic resonance data for amorphous Ge2Sb2Te5, the prototypical phase change material, we have used 121Sb and 125Te nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) to study crystalline Sb2Te3, GeTe, and Ge2Sb2Te5. The frequency space data are affected by a quadrupole (121Sb only) and chemical shift (121Sb and 125Te) interaction, which reflect the bonding asymmetries occurring around each nuclei. The 125Te data indicate there are two distinct Te sites in Sb2Te3 and one Te site in the GeTe, in agreement with the known crystal structures. The Ge2Sb2Te5 125Te data are less well-resolved, which is probably a consequence of the random arrangement of Sb/Ge atoms around the Te sites. Despite the lack of resolution, these data do correspond to the spectral positions and breadths observed in Sb2Te3 and GeTe, which suggests that Ge2Sb2Te5 contains similar Te bonding structures. The 121Sb data in Sb2Te3 show that the Sb sites have an approximately axially symmetric bonding environment. The Sb data in Ge2Sb2Te5 reveal that the average bonding structure of Sb is very different from the Sb sites occurring in Sb2Te3.
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2008-10-25