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Spontaneous structural relaxation is intrinsic to glassy materials due to their metastable nature. For phase-change materials (PCMs), the resultant temporal change in electrical resistance seriously hamper in-memory computing (IMC)…

Transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) exist in various crystal structures with semiconducting, semi-metallic, and metallic properties. The dynamic control of these phases is of immediate interest for next generation electronics such as…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-01-21 Dante Zakhidov , Daniel A. Rehn , Evan J. Reed , Alberto Salleo

Scalable programmable photonic integrated circuits (PICs) can potentially transform the current state of classical and quantum optical information processing. However, traditional means of programming, including thermo-optic, free carrier…

Inserting molecular monolayers within metal / semiconductor interfaces provides one of the most powerful expressions of how minute chemical modifications can affect electronic devices. This topic also has direct importance for technology as…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-03-17 Ayelet Vilan , David Cahen

High contact resistance remains a central obstacle to the integration of two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors in electronic devices. Recent advances have demonstrated that contact performance can be dramatically improved through interface…

Capping layers are essential for protecting phase change materials (PCMs) used in non-volatile photonics technologies. This work demonstrates how $(ZnS)_{0.8}-(SiO_2)_{0.2}$ caps radically influence the performance of $Sb_{2}S_{3}$ and…

In the present article, performance of a glazed photovoltaic thermal system integrated with phase change materials (GPVT/PCM) is numerically examined based on both energy and exergy viewpoints. The effect of PCM volumetric fraction and…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-06-01 Ali Naghdbishi , Mohammad Eftekhari Yazdi , Ghasem Akbari

Two-dimensional (2D) layered materials-based field-effect transistors (FETs) are promising for ultimate scaled electron device applications because of the improved electrostatics to atomically thin body thickness. However, compared with the…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-10-02 Nan Fang , Kosuke Nagashio

The resistance state of filamentary memristors can be tuned by relocating only a few atoms at interatomic distances in the active region of a conducting filament. Thereby the technology holds promise not only in its ultimate downscaling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-08 Miklós Csontos , Yannik Horst , Nadia Jimenez Olalla , Ueli Koch , Ivan Shorubalko , András Halbritter , Juerg Leuthold

Phase-change materials (PCMs) are increasingly recognised as promising platforms for tunable photonic devices due to their ability to modulate optical properties through solid-state phase transitions. Ultrathin and low-loss PCMs are highly…

We report fabrication and characteristics of an organic monolayer based Metal Oxide Semiconductor (MOS) device. In place of SiO2 oxide layer in the MOS configuration, we used 1H, 1H, 2H, 2H- perfluorooctyl trichlorosilane (FOTS)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-24 Rosilin George , U. Satheesh , J. Cyril Robinson Azariah , D. Devaprakasam

Over the past few years, there has been a growing interest in layered transition metal dichalcogenides (TMD) such as molybdenum disulfide (MoS2). Most studies so far have focused on the electronic and optoelectronic properties of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-03 Morteza Kayyalha , Jesse Maassen , Mark Lundstrom , Li Shi , Yong P. Chen

Phase-change memory (PCM) is a promising non-volatile solid-state memory technology. A PCM cell stores data by using its amorphous and crystalline states. The cell changes between these two states using high temperature. However, since the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-07-20 Minghai Qin , Eitan Yaakobi , Paul H. Siegel

The present paper numerically analyzes a passive cooling system using enclosures with different geometries filled with thermal conductivity-enhanced phase change material (PCM). A numerical code is developed using an unstructured…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2012-06-11 Kamal El Omari , Tarik Kousksou , Yves Le Guer

Interface-type resistive switching (RS) devices with lower operation current and more reliable switching repeatability exhibits great potential in the applications for data storage devices and ultra-low-energy computing. However, the…

Reconfigurability of photonic integrated circuits (PICs) has become increasingly important due to the growing demands for electronic-photonic systems on a chip driven by emerging applications, including neuromorphic computing, quantum…

As computing power demands continue to grow, superconducting electronics present an opportunity to reduce power consumption by increasing the energy efficiency of digital logic and memory. A key milestone for scaling this technology is the…

There is a growing demand for highly-performant memories and memristive technologies for use in in-memory computing. Magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs) have thus far addressed this need in the field of spintronics. Despite their low write…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-20 William S. Rogers , Jean Anne C. Incorvia

The synergy between metasurfaces and non-volatile phase change materials (PCMs) has created many reconfigurable photonic devices for applications in optical memory, optical computing and optical communications. But these advances have been…

Ferroelectric field-effect transistors integrated on 2D semiconducting platforms are extremely relevant for low power electronics. Here, we propose and demonstrate a novel phase-change ferroelectric field effect transistor (PCFE-FET) for…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-11-05 Sooraj Sanjay , Jalaja M. A , Navakanta Bhat , Pavan Nukala