English
Related papers

Related papers: Interface controlled thermal properties of ultra-t…

200 papers

Optical phase-change materials are highly promising for emerging applications such as tunable metasurfaces, reconfigurable photonic circuits, and non-von Neumann computing. However, these materials typically require both high melting…

Quantum-accurate computer simulations play a central role in understanding phase-change materials (PCMs) for advanced memory technologies. However, direct quantum-mechanical simulations are necessarily limited to simplified models,…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-09-20 Yuxing Zhou , Wei Zhang , En Ma , Volker L. Deringer

With the imminent slowing down of DRAM scaling, Phase Change Memory (PCM) is emerging as a lead alternative for main memory technology. While PCM achieves low energy due to various technology-specific advantages, PCM is significantly slower…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2015-04-17 Hamza Bin Sohail , Balajee Vamanan , T. N. Vijaykumar

Interfacial thermal transport is a critical bottleneck in nanoscale systems, where heat dissipation and energy efficiency are strongly modulated by molecular ordering at solid-liquid boundaries. Here, using atomistic simulations of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-14 Viktor Mandrolko , Mykola Isaiev

We leverage 3D numerical simulations to study phase change materials (PCMs) cells under the effect of buoyancy forces. The solid PCM is heated from a source boundary, triggering melting. The source features multiple solid fins that protrude…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-05-12 Paolo Proia , Mauro Sbragaglia , Giacomo Falcucci

The rapid development of multi-core system and increase of data-intensive application in recent years call for larger main memory. Traditional DRAM memory can increase its capacity by reducing the feature size of storage cell. Now further…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2016-06-13 Shenchen Ruan , Haixia Wang , Dongsheng Wang

We stabilize resistance of melt-quenched amorphous Ge2Sb2Te5 (a-GST) phase change memory (PCM) line cells by substantially accelerating resistance drift and bringing it to a stop within a few minutes with application of high electric field…

Thermal transport properties bear a pivotal role in influencing the performance of phase change memory (PCM) devices, in which the PCM operation involves fast and reversible phase change between amorphous and crystalline phases. In this…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-06-05 Kanka Ghosh , Andrzej Kusiak , Pierre Noé , Marie-Claire Cyrille , Jean-Luc Battaglia

Thermal Energy Storage (TES) using Phase Change Materials (PCMs) represents a critical technology for sustainable energy management and grid stability. This study presents a novel Physics-Driven Deep Learning (PDDL) framework for modeling…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-12-02 Meraj Hassanzadeh , Ehsan Ghaderi , Fatemeh Fatahi , Mohamad Ali Bijarchi

We introduce a new scanning probe technique derived from scanning gate microscopy (SGM) in order to investigate thermoelectric transport in two-dimensional semiconductor devices. The thermoelectric scanning gate Microscopy (TSGM) consists…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-04-03 B. Brun , F. Martins , S. Faniel , A. Cavanna , C. Ulysse , A. Ouerghi , U. Gennser , D. Mailly , P. Simon , S. Huant , M. Sanquer , H. Sellier , V. Bayot , B. Hackens

Recently, chalcogenide glass based phase change materials (PCMs) have shown utility as a tuning material for a range of nanophotonic devices. Owing to their low loss, ultrafast switching speeds and wide waveband operation, PCMs are…

In-memory computing is an emerging non-von Neumann computing paradigm where certain computational tasks are performed in memory by exploiting the physical attributes of the memory devices. Memristive devices such as phase-change memory…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2020-04-08 Anastasios Petropoulos , Irem Boybat , Manuel Le Gallo , Evangelos Eleftheriou , Abu Sebastian , Theodore Antonakopoulos

This paper proposes a computationally efficient simulation strategy for cold thermal energy storage (TES) systems based on phase change material (PCM). Taking as a starting point the recent design of a TES system based on PCM, designed to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-07 G. Bejarano , M. Vargas , M. G. Ortega , F. Castaño , J. E. Normey-Rico

Lithium-ion batteries are extensively utilized as the primary power source for electric vehicles due to their high energy density, environmental friendliness and lightweight nature. However, their performance and safety are highly dependent…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-03-14 Masoumeh Karimi Kisomi

Current large scale implementations of deep learning and data mining require thousands of processors, massive amounts of off-chip memory, and consume gigajoules of energy. Emerging memory technologies such as nanoscale two-terminal…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-11-15 S. Burc Eryilmaz , Emre Neftci , Siddharth Joshi , SangBum Kim , Matthew BrightSky , Hsiang-Lan Lung , Chung Lam , Gert Cauwenberghs , H. -S. Philip Wong

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

In this paper new characterization equipment for thermal interface materials is presented. Thermal management of electronic products relies on the effec-tive dissipation of heat. This can be achieved by the optimization of the system design…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-09-13 R. Schacht , D. May , B. Wunderle , O. Wittler , A. Gollhardt , B. Michel , H. Reichl

Pr1-xCaxMnO3 (PCMO) based resistance random access memory (RRAM) is attractive in large scale memory and neuromorphic applications as it is non-filamentary, area scalable and has multiple resistance states along with excellent endurance and…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-04-15 Sandip Lashkare , Udayan Ganguly

The emerging field of phase-coherent caloritronics (from the Latin word "calor", i.e., heat) is based on the possibility to control heat currents using the phase difference of the superconducting order parameter. The goal is to design and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-09 Antonio Fornieri , Francesco Giazotto

Compute-in-memory (CIM) presents an attractive approach for energy-efficient computing in data-intensive applications. However, the development of suitable memory designs to achieve high-performance CIM remains a challenging task. Here, we…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Yuhao Shu , Hongtu Zhang , Hao Sun , Mengru Zhang , Wenfeng Zhao , Qi Deng , Zhidong Tang , Yumeng Yuan , Yongqi Hu , Yu Gu , Xufeng Kou , Yajun Ha