Designing crystallization in phase-change materials for universal memory and neuro-inspired computing

W Zhang, R Mazzarello, M Wuttig, E Ma - Nature Reviews Materials, 2019 - nature.com
The global demand for data storage and processing has increased exponentially in recent
decades. To respond to this demand, research efforts have been devoted to the …

An overview of phase-change memory device physics

M Le Gallo, A Sebastian - Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Phase-change memory (PCM) is an emerging non-volatile memory technology that has
recently been commercialized as storage-class memory in a computer system. PCM is also …

Reducing the stochasticity of crystal nucleation to enable subnanosecond memory writing

F Rao, K Ding, Y Zhou, Y Zheng, M **a, S Lv, Z Song… - Science, 2017 - science.org
Operation speed is a key challenge in phase-change random-access memory (PCRAM)
technology, especially for achieving subnanosecond high-speed cache memory …

Recent advances on neuromorphic devices based on chalcogenide phase‐change materials

M Xu, X Mai, J Lin, W Zhang, Y Li, Y He… - Advanced Functional …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Traditional von Neumann computing architecture with separated computation and storage
units has already impeded the data processing performance and energy efficiency, calling …

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 …

Photonic and plasmonic metasensors

A Ahmadivand, B Gerislioglu - Laser & Photonics Reviews, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Biosensors have been designed and developed for detecting biomarkers, biomolecules,
proteins, enzymes, organisms, and various types of bacterial and viral diseases since the …

The Myth of “Metavalency” in Phase‐Change Materials

RO Jones, SR Elliott, R Dronskowski - Advanced Materials, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Phase‐change memory materials (PCMs) have unusual properties and important
applications, and recent efforts to find improved materials have focused on their bonding …

[HTML][HTML] Unveiling the structural origin to control resistance drift in phase-change memory materials

W Zhang, E Ma - Materials Today, 2020 - Elsevier
The global demand for data storage and processing is increasing exponentially. To deal
with this challenge, massive efforts have been devoted to the development of advanced …

Monatomic phase change memory

M Salinga, B Kersting, I Ronneberger… - Nature materials, 2018 - nature.com
Phase change memory has been developed into a mature technology capable of storing
information in a fast and non-volatile way,–, with potential for neuromorphic computing …

The role of local structure in dynamical arrest

CP Royall, SR Williams - Physics Reports, 2015 - Elsevier
Amorphous solids, or glasses, are distinguished from crystalline solids by their lack of long-
range structural order. At the level of two-body structural correlations, glassformers show no …