Chalcogenides by design: functionality through metavalent bonding and confinement

BJ Kooi, M Wuttig - Advanced materials, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
A unified picture of different application areas for incipient metals is presented. This
unconventional material class includes several main‐group chalcogenides, such as GeTe …

“Stickier”-Surface Sb2Te3 Templates Enable Fast Memory Switching of Phase Change Material GeSb2Te4 with Growth-Dominated Crystallization

J Feng, A Lotnyk, H Bryja, X Wang, M Xu… - … Applied Materials & …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Ge-Sb-Te (GST)-based phase-change memory (PCM) excels in the switching performance
but remains insufficient of the operating speed to replace cache memory (the fastest memory …

Atomic Layer Deposition of Sb2Te3/GeTe Superlattice Film and Its Melt‐Quenching‐Free Phase‐Transition Mechanism for Phase‐Change Memory

C Yoo, JW Jeon, S Yoon, Y Cheng, G Han… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Atomic layer deposition (ALD) of Sb2Te3/GeTe superlattice (SL) film on planar and vertical
sidewall areas containing TiN metal and SiO2 insulator is demonstrated. The peculiar …

Resistance Drift Suppression Utilizing GeTe/Sb2Te3 Superlattice‐Like Phase‐Change Materials

L Zhou, Z Yang, X Wang, H Qian, M Xu… - Advanced Electronic …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Resistance drift is one of the key challenges in phase‐change memory, especially in
multilevel storage applications. Although many efforts have been proposed to reduce the …

Temperature dependent evolution of local structure in chalcogenide-based superlattices

A Lotnyk, I Hilmi, M Behrens, B Rauschenbach - Applied Surface Science, 2021 - Elsevier
Interfacial phase change memory utilizing chalcogenide-based superlattices (CSLs) offers
outstanding device performance and is an emerging contender to replace conventional …

A review on the recent progress on photodetectors

X Lian, L Luo, M Dong, Z Miao, X Qi, Z Cai… - Journal of Materials …, 2024 - Springer
Photodetectors play a pivotal role in modern technology, particularly in applications
requiring precise light detection and imaging. Traditional photodetectors, however, are often …

In situ observations of the reversible vacancy ordering process in van der Waals-bonded Ge–Sb–Te thin films and GeTe–Sb 2 Te 3 superlattices

A Lotnyk, T Dankwort, I Hilmi, L Kienle… - Nanoscale, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Chalcogenide-based thin films are employed in data storage and memory technology
whereas van der Waals-bonded layered chalcogenide heterostructures are considered to …

High-quality sputter-grown layered chalcogenide films for phase change memory applications and beyond

Y Saito, P Fons, AV Kolobov… - Journal of Physics D …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
This paper summarizes recent progress on thin film growth of chalcogenides by sputtering.
The materials discussed include Sb–Te, Bi–Te, Ge–Te, and their superlattices, materials that …

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 …

Superlattice-like Sb70Se30/HfO2 thin films for high thermal stability and low power consumption phase change memory

K Wang, L Chen - Nanotechnology, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract We have fabricated Sb 70 Se 30/HfO 2 superlattice-like structure thin films for phase
change memory by magnetron sputtering method, and investigated the effect of the HfO 2 …