Phase-change materials for non-volatile memory devices: from technological challenges to materials science issues

P Noé, C Vallée, F Hippert, F Fillot… - … Science and Technology, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Chalcogenide phase-change materials (PCMs), such as Ge-Sb-Te alloys, have shown
outstanding properties, which has led to their successful use for a long time in optical …

Enabling active nanotechnologies by phase transition: from electronics, photonics to thermotics

C Zheng, RE Simpson, K Tang, Y Ke, A Nemati… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Phase transitions can occur in certain materials such as transition metal oxides (TMOs) and
chalcogenides when there is a change in external conditions such as temperature and …

Designing conductive‐bridge phase‐change memory to enable ultralow programming power

Z Yang, B Li, JJ Wang, XD Wang, M Xu… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Phase‐change material (PCM) devices are one of the most mature nonvolatile memories.
However, their high power consumption remains a bottleneck problem limiting the data …

[PDF][PDF] Phase-change memory materials by design: a strain engineering approach

X Zhou, J Kalikka, X Ji, L Wu, Z Song, RE Simpson - Adv. Mater, 2016 - researchgate.net
DOI: 10.1002/adma. 201505865 sub-layer atoms seems necessary to complete the
transition, the energy barrier for the vertical atomic motion of Ge dominates the switching …

Picosecond Operation of Optoelectronic Hybrid Phase Change Memory Based on Si‐Doped Sb Films

Q Liu, T Wei, Y Zheng, C Xuan, L Sun… - Advanced Functional …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Phase‐change random access memory is anticipated to break the bottleneck of the “storage
wall” due to its advantages in simultaneous data storage and in‐memory computing …

Impact of interfaces on scenario of crystallization of phase change materials

P Noé, C Sabbione, N Bernier, N Castellani, F Fillot… - Acta Materialia, 2016 - Elsevier
Chalcogenide phase change materials (PCMs), such as Ge-Sb-Te alloys, have outstanding
properties, which has led to their successful use for a long time in optical memories (DVDs) …

[HTML][HTML] Phase and grain size engineering in Ge-Sb-Te-O by alloying with La-Sr-Mn-O towards improved material properties

N Kraft, G Wang, H Bryja, A Prager, J Griebel… - Materials & Design, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Ge-Sb-Te alloys are promising materials for non-volatile memory applications.
Alloying of the materials with various elements is considered as prospective approach to …

Thermal stability and high speed for optoelectronic hybrid phase-change memory based on Cr doped Ge2Sb2Te5 thin film

B Wu, T Wei, J Hu, R Wang, Q Liu, M Cheng, W Li… - Ceramics …, 2023 - Elsevier
Non-volatile memory, which can simultaneously store data and compute in memory, is a
promising candidate to break through “memory bottleneck”. However, its operation speed …

A candidate Zr-doped Sb2Te alloy for phase change memory application

Y Zheng, Y Cheng, M Zhu, X Ji, Q Wang… - Applied Physics …, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
Here, Zr-doped Sb 2 Te alloy is proposed for phase change memory (PCM). Zr-do**
enhances the crystallization temperature and thermal stability of Sb 2 Te alloy effectively …

In situ observation of the impact of surface oxidation on the crystallization mechanism of GeTe phase-change thin films by scanning transmission electron microscopy

R Berthier, N Bernier, D Cooper, C Sabbione… - Journal of Applied …, 2017 - pubs.aip.org
The crystallization mechanisms of prototypical GeTe phase-change material thin films have
been investigated by in situ scanning transmission electron microscopy annealing …