Search Results - "Zalden, Peter"
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Femtosecond x-ray diffraction reveals a liquid-liquid phase transition in phase-change materials
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (14-06-2019)“…In phase-change memory devices, a material is cycled between glassy and crystalline states. The highly temperature-dependent kinetics of its crystallization…”
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Molecular polarizability anisotropy of liquid water revealed by terahertz-induced transient orientation
Published in Nature communications (30-05-2018)“…Reaction pathways of biochemical processes are influenced by the dissipative electrostatic interaction of the reagents with solvent water molecules. The…”
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Structural changes across thermodynamic maxima in supercooled liquid tellurium: A water-like scenario
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (12-07-2022)“…Liquid polymorphism is an intriguing phenomenon that has been found in a few single-component systems, the most famous being water. By supercooling liquid Te…”
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Dynamic Structural Response and Deformations of Monolayer MoS2 Visualized by Femtosecond Electron Diffraction
Published in Nano letters (14-10-2015)“…Two-dimensional materials are subject to intrinsic and dynamic rippling that modulates their optoelectronic and electromechanical properties. Here, we directly…”
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Disorder-Induced Localization in Crystalline Pseudo-Binary GeTe-Sb2Te3 Alloys between Ge3Sb2Te6 and GeTe
Published in Advanced functional materials (01-10-2015)“…Disorder has a tremendous impact on charge transport in crystalline compounds on the pseudo‐binary line between Sb2Te3 and GeTe. Directly after…”
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Picosecond Electric-Field-Induced Threshold Switching in Phase-Change Materials
Published in Physical review letters (05-08-2016)“…Many chalcogenide glasses undergo a breakdown in electronic resistance above a critical field strength. Known as threshold switching, this mechanism enables…”
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A sensitive high repetition rate arrival time monitor for X-ray free electron lasers
Published in Nature communications (29-04-2023)“…X-ray free-electron laser sources enable time-resolved X-ray studies with unmatched temporal resolution. To fully exploit ultrashort X-ray pulses, timing tools…”
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Femtosecond X-ray emission study of the spin cross-over dynamics in haem proteins
Published in Nature communications (18-08-2020)“…In haemoglobin the change from the low-spin (LS) hexacoordinated haem to the high spin (HS, S = 2) pentacoordinated domed deoxy-myoglobin (deoxyMb) form upon…”
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Phase-Change Materials: Vibrational Softening upon Crystallization and Its Impact on Thermal Properties
Published in Advanced functional materials (21-06-2011)“…Crystallization of an amorphous solid is usually accompanied by a significant change of transport properties, such as an increase in thermal and electrical…”
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Ultrafast Terahertz Gating of the Polarization and Giant Nonlinear Optical Response in BiFeO3 Thin Films
Published in Advanced materials (Weinheim) (04-11-2015)“…Terahertz pulses are applied as an all‐optical bias to ferroelectric thin‐film BiFeO3 while monitoring the time‐dependent ferroelectric polarization through…”
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Ultrafast X-ray Photochemistry at European XFEL: Capabilities of the Femtosecond X-ray Experiments (FXE) Instrument
Published in Applied sciences (01-02-2020)“…Time-resolved X-ray methods are widely used for monitoring transient intermediates over the course of photochemical reactions. Ultrafast X-ray absorption and…”
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Ultrafast terahertz-induced response of GeSbTe phase-change materials
Published in Applied physics letters (23-06-2014)“…The time-resolved ultrafast electric field-driven response of crystalline and amorphous GeSbTe films has been measured all-optically, pumping with single-cycle…”
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Ultrafast Jahn‐Teller Photoswitching in Cobalt Single‐Ion Magnets
Published in Advanced science (01-07-2023)“…Single‐ion magnets (SIMs) constitute the ultimate size limit in the quest for miniaturizing magnetic materials. Several bottlenecks currently hindering…”
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Ultrafast Two‐Color X‐Ray Emission Spectroscopy Reveals Excited State Landscape in a Base Metal Dyad
Published in Advanced science (01-10-2024)“…Effective photoinduced charge transfer makes molecular bimetallic assemblies attractive for applications as active light‐induced proton reduction systems…”
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How Supercooled Liquid Phase-Change Materials Crystallize: Snapshots after Femtosecond Optical Excitation
Published in Chemistry of materials (25-08-2015)“…Glass-forming materials are employed in information storage technologies making use of the transition between a disordered (amorphous) and an ordered…”
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How fragility makes phase-change data storage robust: insights from ab initio simulations
Published in Scientific reports (06-10-2014)“…Phase-change materials are technologically important due to their manifold applications in data storage. Here we report on ab initio molecular dynamics…”
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Acceleration of Crystallization Kinetics in Ge‐Sb‐Te‐Based Phase‐Change Materials by Substitution of Ge by Sn
Published in Advanced functional materials (01-01-2021)“…Thin films of (Ge1–xSnx)8Sb2Te11 are prepared to study the impact of Sn‐substitution on properties relevant for application in phase‐change memory, a…”
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Color Switching with Enhanced Optical Contrast in Ultrathin Phase-Change Materials and Semiconductors Induced by Femtosecond Laser Pulses
Published in ACS photonics (18-02-2015)“…Ultrathin semiconductors on metals constitute color filters, which selectively absorb wavelength ranges of incident light. This paper demonstrates that these…”
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Role of vacancies in metal–insulator transitions of crystalline phase-change materials
Published in Nature materials (01-11-2012)“…The study of metal–insulator transitions (MITs) in crystalline solids is a subject of paramount importance, both from the fundamental point of view and for its…”
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Reversible Optical Switching of Infrared Antenna Resonances with Ultrathin Phase-Change Layers Using Femtosecond Laser Pulses
Published in ACS photonics (17-09-2014)“…Recently, phase-change materials (PCMs) have gained a lot of interest in the field of active metamaterials and plasmonics due to their switchable optical…”
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