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A phase-change memory model for neuromorphic computing

Phase-change memory (PCM) is an emerging non-volatile memory technology that is based on the reversible and rapid phase transition between the amorphous and crystalline phases of certain phase-change materials. The ability to alter the conductance levels i ...

AMER INST PHYSICS2018

Provenance, workflows, and crystallographic tools in materials science: AiiDA, spglib, and seekpath

Giovanni Pizzi

The near-exponential expansion in computing resources over the last few decades has enabled a rapid increase in the capabilities of computational science, including applications to materials research. In order to harness the available resources and acceler ...

CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS2018

Carrier injection from amorphous silicon into crystalline silicon determined with photoluminescence

Andrea Ingenito, Gizem Nogay, Philipp Friedrich Hermann Löper

Intrinsic amorphous silicon provides excellent surface passivation on crystalline silicon. It has previously been shown, that carriers that are photo generated in the amorphous silicon can be efficiently electronically injected into the crystalline silicon ...

IEEE2018

Atomistic Simulations of The Structure of Calcium Silicate Hydrates: Interlayer Positions, Water Content And A General Structural Brick Model

Aslam Kunhi Mohamed

Portland cement has been in use by human civilization for over a century. Yet, we do not fully understand its hydration reaction mechanisms due to the complexity of the system and its continued reaction over time making it hard to study it experimentally. ...

EPFL2018

Lanthanide mechanoluminescence

Jean-Claude Bünzli

Mechanoluminescence (ML) is the emission of light consecutive to a mechanical force or stress imposed to a crystalline material. Many inorganic and organic compounds present this phenomenon that is known for over 400 years. Lanthanide and uranyl salts were ...

Elsevier Science Bv2018

Analysis of crystalline phases and integration modelling of charge quenching yields in hybrid lead halide perovskite solar cell materials

Ulf Anders Hagfeldt

Organic inorganic metal halide perovskites (OIHPs) has emerged as promising photovoltaic materials the latest years. Many OIHPs, however, have complex material compositions with mixed cation and halide compositions, phase mixtures, as well as beneficial re ...

Elsevier Science Bv2017

Influence of structural and electrostatic disorder on transport properties of monolayers of two-dimensional semiconductors

Dmitry Ovchinnikov

Two-dimensional (2D) materials are under intensive investigation recently due to variety of electronic properties, ranging from insulators (h-BN) to semi-metals (graphene), semiconductors (MoS2, WSe2) with wide variability of band-gap and correlated phases ...

EPFL2017

Nature of electron trap states under inversion at In0.53Ga0.47As/Al2O3 interfaces

Alfredo Pasquarello, Davide Colleoni

In and Ga impurities substitutional to Al in the oxide layer resulting from diffusion out of the substrate are identified as candidates for electron traps under inversion at In0.53Ga0.47As/Al2O3 interfaces. Through density-functional calculations, these de ...

American Institute of Physics2017

Controlling structural and magnetic properties of IONPs by aqueous synthesis for improved hyperthermia

Heinrich Hofmann, Alla Arakcheeva, Marijana Mionic Ebersold, Débora Bonvin

Iron oxide nanoparticles (IONPs) were synthesized by a novel aqueous synthesis route which combines co-precipitation (CP) and hydrothermal (HT) treatment, termed CP + HT, and compared with IONPs obtained by the standard CP method. Properties of both types ...

2017

Coupled 3D Dislocation Modeling at Nano- and Micro-Scales

Jaehyun Cho

The performance of crystalline materials varies depending on the considered scale. To understand the size dependence of materials properties, the interaction and evolution of defects are essential. As such, the role played by dislocations is crucial for mo ...

EPFL2017

High-temperature copolyamides obtained by the efficient transamidation of crystalline-crystalline polyamide blends

Véronique Michaud, John Christopher Plummer, Holger Frauenrath, Sylvain Cyril Claude Galland

High-performance thermoplastic composites based on semiaromatic polyamides are prime candidates for metal replacement in lightweight structural applications. However, the low ductility and toughness of semiaromatic polyamides remain major obstacles to thei ...

Wiley-Blackwell2017