Reversible Crystalline‐Crystalline Transitions in Chalcogenide Phase‐Change Materials

B Liu, K Li, J Zhou, Z Sun - Advanced Functional Materials, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Phase‐change random access memory (PCRAM) is one of the most technologically mature
candidates for next‐generation non‐volatile memory and is currently at the forefront of …

Ultrafast synaptic events in a chalcogenide memristor

Y Li, Y Zhong, L Xu, J Zhang, X Xu, H Sun, X Miao - Scientific reports, 2013 - nature.com
Compact and power-efficient plastic electronic synapses are of fundamental importance to
overcoming the bottlenecks of developing a neuromorphic chip. Memristor is a strong …

Structure of phase change materials for data storage

Z Sun, J Zhou, R Ahuja - Physical review letters, 2006 - APS
Phase change materials based on chalcogenide alloys play an important role in optical and
electrical memory devices. Both applications rely on the reversible phase transition of these …

Insights into the structure of the stable and metastable compounds

JLF Da Silva, A Walsh, H Lee - Physical Review B—Condensed Matter and …, 2008 - APS
Using first-principles calculations, we identify the mechanisms that lead to the lowest energy
structures for the stable and metastable (GeTe) m (Sb 2 Te 3) n (GST) compounds, namely …

[HTML][HTML] Element-resolved atomic structure imaging of rocksalt Ge2Sb2Te5 phase-change material

B Zhang, W Zhang, Z Shen, Y Chen, J Li… - Applied Physics …, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
Disorder-induced electron localization and metal-insulator transitions (MITs) have been a
very active research field starting from the seminal paper by Anderson half a century ago …

Data Storage at the Nanoscale: Advances and Applications

G Fuxi, W Yang - 2015 - books.google.com
In the big data era, data storage is one of the cores in the whole information chain, which
includes production, transfer, sharing, and finally processing. Over the years, the growth of …

Real-space imaging of atomic arrangement and vacancy layers ordering in laser crystallised Ge2Sb2Te5 phase change thin films

A Lotnyk, S Bernütz, X Sun, U Ross, M Ehrhardt… - Acta Materialia, 2016 - Elsevier
In this work, the local structure of metastable Ge 2 Sb 2 Te 5 (GST) phase change thin films
crystallised by laser irradiation of amorphous GST films is studied by state-of-the-art …

Nucleus-driven crystallization of amorphous GeSbTe: A density functional study

J Kalikka, J Akola, J Larrucea, RO Jones - Physical Review B—Condensed …, 2012 - APS
Early stages of nucleus-driven crystallization of the prototype phase change material Ge 2
Sb 2 Te 5 have been studied by density functional/molecular dynamics simulations for …

Thermal characterization of the SiO2-Ge2Sb2Te5 interface from room temperature up to 400 C

JL Battaglia, A Kusiak, V Schick, A Cappella… - Journal of Applied …, 2010 - pubs.aip.org
The thermal conductivity of Ge 2 Sb 2 Te 5 (GST) layers, as well as the thermal boundary
resistance at the interface between the GST and amorphous Si O 2⁠, was measured using a …

Direct observation of partial disorder and zipperlike transition in crystalline phase change materials

M Zhu, K Ren, L Liu, S Lv, X Miao, M Xu, Z Song - Physical Review Materials, 2019 - APS
Chalcogenide phase change materials, such as G e 1 S b 2 T e 4 (GST), are of tremendous
importance in emerging data storage technology, which takes advantage of rapid and …