3 papers
cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025
Liquid anomalies and Fragility of Supercooled Antimony
Flavio Giuliani, Francesco Guidarelli Mattioli, Yuhan Chen +5
Phase-change materials (PCMs) based on group IV, V, and VI elements, such as Ge, Sb, and Te, exhibit distinctive liquid-state features, including thermodynamic anomalies and unusua…
cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025
From Continuous to First-Order-Like: Amorphous-to-Amorphous Transition in Phase-Change Materials
Tomoki Fujita, Yoshio Kono, Yuhan Chen +13
Polymorphism is ubiquitous in crystalline solids. Amorphous solids, such as glassy water and silicon, may undergo amorphous-to-amorphous transitions (AATs). The nature of AATs rema…
cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025
Role of seed layer in growing atomically flat TiTe2/Sb2Te3 heterostructure thin films at the wafer scale
Chao Nie, Xueyang Shen, Junying Zhang +8
Chalcogenide phase-change materials (PCMs) are a leading candidate for advanced memory and computing applications. Epitaxial-like growth of chalcogenide thin films at the wafer sca…