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Bulk Glassy GeTe2: A Missing Member of the Tetrahedral GeX2 Family and a Precursor for the Next Generation of Phase-Change Materials

Tverjanovich, Andrey ; Khomenko, Maxim ; Benmore, Chris J ; Bokova, Maria ; Sokolov, Anton ; Fontanari, Daniele ; Kassem, Mohammad ; Usuki, Takeshi ; Bychkov, Eugene

Chemistry of materials, 2021-02, Vol.33 (3), p.1031-1045 [Periódico revisado por pares]

United States: American Chemical Society

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  • Título:
    Bulk Glassy GeTe2: A Missing Member of the Tetrahedral GeX2 Family and a Precursor for the Next Generation of Phase-Change Materials
  • Autor: Tverjanovich, Andrey ; Khomenko, Maxim ; Benmore, Chris J ; Bokova, Maria ; Sokolov, Anton ; Fontanari, Daniele ; Kassem, Mohammad ; Usuki, Takeshi ; Bychkov, Eugene
  • Assuntos: Amorphous materials ; Chemical structure ; Germanium ; INORGANIC, ORGANIC, PHYSICAL, AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY ; Liquids ; Physical and chemical processes ; Physics
  • É parte de: Chemistry of materials, 2021-02, Vol.33 (3), p.1031-1045
  • Notas: AC02-06CH11357
    USDOE Office of Science (SC)
  • Descrição: Vitreous germanium disulfide GeS2 and diselenide GeSe2 belong to canonical chalcogenide glasses extensively studied over the past half century. Their high-temperature orthorhombic polymorphs are congruently melting compounds, and the tetrahedral crystal and glass structure is largely preserved in the melt. In contrast, the ditelluride counterpart is absent in the Ge–Te phase diagram, which shows only a single compound, monotelluride GeTe. Phase-change materials based on GeTe have become a technologically important class of solids, and their structure and properties are also widely studied. Surprisingly, very scarce information is available for alloys having GeTe2 stoichiometry. Using a fast quenching procedure in silica capillaries, high-energy X-ray diffraction, and Raman spectroscopy supported by first-principles simulations, we show that bulk glassy GeTe2 differs substantially from the lighter GeX2 members, revealing 46% of trigonal germanium, 31% of three-fold coordinated tellurium, and only 20% of edge-sharing tetrahedra or pyramids. The fraction of homopolar Ge–Ge bonds is low; however, the population of dominant Te–Te dimers and Te n oligomers, n ≤ 10, appears to be significant. The complex structural and chemical topology of g-GeTe2 is directly related to the thermodynamic metastability of germanium ditelluride, schematically represented by the following reaction: GeTe2 ⇄ GeTe + Te. Disproportionation is complete above liquidus in the temperature range of semiconductor–metal transition, and the dense metallic GeTe2 liquid, mostly consisting of five-fold coordinated Ge species, exhibits high fluidity, strong fragility (m = 99 ± 5), and presumably a fast structural transformation rate combined with low atomic mobility in the vicinity of the glass transition temperature, favorable for reliable long-term data retention in nonvolatile memories. The observed and predicted characteristic features make GeTe2 a promising precursor for the next generation of phase-change materials, especially coupled with additional metal doping, depolymerizing the tetrahedral interconnected glass network and accelerating (sub)­nanosecond crystallization.
  • Editor: United States: American Chemical Society
  • Idioma: Inglês
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