Phase‐Change Superlattice Materials toward Low Power Consumption and High Density Data Storage: Microscopic Picture, Working Principles, and Optimization

XB Li, NK Chen, XP Wang… - Advanced Functional …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
To meet the requirement of big data era and neuromorphic computations, nonvolatile
memory with fast speed, high density, and low power consumption is urgently needed. As an …

Phase change thin films for non-volatile memory applications

A Lotnyk, M Behrens, B Rauschenbach - Nanoscale Advances, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
The rapid development of Internet of Things devices requires real time processing of a huge
amount of digital data, creating a new demand for computing technology. Phase change …

Hybrid photonic integrated circuits for neuromorphic computing

R Xu, S Taheriniya, AP Ovvyan, JR Bankwitz… - Optical Materials …, 2023 - opg.optica.org
The burgeoning of artificial intelligence has brought great convenience to people's lives as
large-scale computational models have emerged. Artificial intelligence-related applications …

Ab initio molecular dynamics and materials design for embedded phase-change memory

L Sun, YX Zhou, XD Wang, YH Chen… - Npj Computational …, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract The Ge2Sb2Te5 alloy has served as the core material in phase-change memories
with high switching speed and persistent storage capability at room temperature. However …

[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 …

Overview of phase-change materials based photonic devices

J Wang, L Wang, J Liu - IEEE Access, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Non-volatile storage memory is widely considered to be one of the most promising
candidates to replace dynamic random access memory and even static random access …

Crystallization of Ge2Sb2Te5 thin films by nano- and femtosecond single laser pulse irradiation

X Sun, M Ehrhardt, A Lotnyk, P Lorenz, E Thelander… - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
The amorphous to crystalline phase transformation of Ge2Sb2Te5 (GST) films by UV
nanosecond (ns) and femtosecond (fs) single laser pulse irradiation at the same wavelength …

In situ atomic-scale observation of transformation from disordered to ordered layered structures in Ge-Sb-Te phase change memory thin films

A Lotnyk, T Dankwort, M Behrens, L Voß, S Cremer… - Acta Materialia, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract Ge-Sb-Te (GST) thin films are emerging materials for various non-volatile memory
applications. The compounds contain a huge number of vacancies that play important roles …

Dynamic reconfiguration of van der Waals gaps within GeTe–Sb 2 Te 3 based superlattices

J Momand, R Wang, JE Boschker, MA Verheijen… - Nanoscale, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Phase-change materials based on GeSbTe show unique switchable optoelectronic
properties and are an important contender for next-generation non-volatile memories …

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 …