Chalcogenide glasses memory effects

One of the properties of a class of materials known as chalcogenide glasses is that they exhibit a wide spectrum of photoinduced effects. Photoinduced phenomena have recently been extensively studied (see corresponding references in previous sections), partly as an interesting subject for fundamental research in the field of disordered sohds and partly due to the potential apphcation of these phenomena in opto(photo)electronics (xerography and xeroradiography, optical memories, optical circuits, photoresists, etc.). 

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