Thermoelectric materials have attracted significant research interest in recent decades due
to their promising application potential in interconverting heat and electricity. Unfortunately …

The piezoelectric effect, mechanical-to-electrical and electrical-to-mechanical energy
conversion, is highly beneficial for functional and responsive electronic devices. To fully …

Relativistic effects, including the Rashba effect, are increasingly seen as key ingredients in
spintronics. A link between Rashba physics and the field of ferroelectrics is established by …

Aging is a ubiquitous phenomenon in glasses. In the case of phase-change materials, it
leads to a drift in the electrical resistance, which hinders the development of ultrahigh …

Thermoelectric materials can convert untapped heat to electricity and are expected to have
an important role in future energy utilization. IV–VI metal chalcogenides are the most …

GeTe is a prototypical phase change material of high interest for applications in optical and
electronic nonvolatile memories. We present an interatomic potential for the bulk phases of …

The discovery of novel properties, effects or microscopic mechanisms in modern materials
science is often driven by the quest for combining, into a single compound, several …

In this article, we revisit bonding in crystalline GeTe, a simple binary alloy that is also a
popular phase change material, and use an ab initio approach that goes beyond the usual …

GeTe-based and PbSe-based high-entropy compounds have outstanding thermoelectric
(TE) performance and crucial applications in mid and high temperatures. Recently, the …

Inelastic neutron scattering experiments on powder samples of GeTe together with density
functional theory investigations of the phonon dynamics in the low-and high-temperature …