Antimony sesquisulfide Sb2S3 has become an outstanding advanced functional material in
a variety of rapidly growing application fields: smart integrated photonics from the visible to …

Binary Ge–Te and ternary Ge–Sb–Te systems belong to flagship phase-change materials
(PCMs) and are used in nonvolatile memory applications and neuromorphic computing. The …

The choice of the ideal material employed in selector devices is a tough task both from the
theoretical and experimental side, especially due to the lack of a synergistic approach …

High-capacity solid-state batteries are promising future products for large-scale energy
storage and conversion. Sodium fast ion conductors including glasses and glass ceramics …

Emerging brain-inspired computing, including artificial optical synapses, photonic tensor
cores, neuromorphic networks, etc., needs phase-change materials (PCMs) of the next …

The effect of van der Waals dispersion correction in combination with density functional
theory is investigated on a canonical amorphous phase-change material. Density functional …

Phase-change materials exhibit fast and reversible transitions between an amorphous and a
crystalline state at high temperature. The two states display resistivity contrast, which is …

Vitreous germanium disulfide GeS2 and diselenide GeSe2 belong to canonical
chalcogenide glasses extensively studied over the past half century. Their high-temperature …

The properties of x Na 2 S-(100-x) GeS 2 glasses, which represent promising systems for all-
solid-state batteries, are thoroughly investigated from a variety of experimental and …

The atomic-scale structure of glassy TeO 2 has been the subject of a longstanding debate.
We resort to first-principles molecular dynamics with a careful choice of the exchange and …