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Materials Science
Germany
2022

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Materials Science

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103
Citations
45485
World Ranking
910
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51

Physics

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Citations
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2022 - Research.com Materials Science in Germany Leader Award

Overview

Matthias Wuttig is affiliated with RWTH Aachen University in Germany and specializes in materials science and engineering. Their research predominantly focuses on phase-change materials and chalcogenides, with significant work in chalcogenide semiconductor thin films and advanced thermoelectric materials and devices. Additional research topics include perovskite materials, metamaterials and metasurfaces applications, liquid crystal advancements, and thermal properties of materials.

Their published work often appears in well-known scientific journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Advanced Functional Materials
  • Advanced Materials
  • Nature Communications
  • physica status solidi (RRL) - Rapid Research Letters

Matthias Wuttig has published extensively, with notable recent papers including:

  • "Polycrystalline SnSe with a thermoelectric figure of merit greater than the single crystal," 2021, Nature Materials
  • "Electrically driven reprogrammable phase-change metasurface reaching 80% efficiency," 2022, Nature Communications
  • "Chalcogenides by Design: Functionality through Metavalent Bonding and Confinement," 2020, Advanced Materials
  • "All-Dielectric Programmable Huygens' Metasurfaces," 2020, Advanced Functional Materials
  • "Metavalent Bonding in Crystalline Solids: How Does It Collapse?," 2021, Advanced Materials

The scientist frequently collaborates with a network of co-authors, including Yuan Yu, Oana Cojocaru-Mirédin, Thomas Taubner, Carl-Friedrich Schön, and Julian Pries. These collaborations have resulted in numerous joint publications contributing to their fields of study.

Their main fields of study are materials science and engineering, with subfields that include materials chemistry, electrical and electronic engineering, electronic, optical and magnetic materials, biomedical engineering, and atomic and molecular physics and optics.

Best Publications

  • Phase-change materials for rewriteable data storage

    Matthias Wuttig;Noboru Yamada

  • Phase-change materials for non-volatile photonic applications

    Matthias Wuttig;H. Bhaskaran;Thomas Günter Taubner

  • Resonant bonding in crystalline phase-change materials

    Kostiantyn Shportko;Stephan Kremers;Michael Woda;Dominic Lencer

  • Phase-change materials: towards a universal memory?

    Matthias Wuttig

  • Structural transformations of Ge2Sb2Te5 films studied by electrical resistance measurements

    I. Friedrich;V. Weidenhof;W. Njoroge;P. Franz

  • A map for phase-change materials.

    Dominic Lencer;Martin Salinga;Blazej Grabowski;Tilmann Hickel

  • Designing crystallization in phase-change materials for universal memory and neuro-inspired computing

    Wei Zhang;Riccardo Mazzarello;Matthias Wuttig;Matthias Wuttig;Evan Ma

  • Formation of a well-ordered aluminium oxide overlayer by oxidation of NiAl(110)

    R.M. Jaeger;H. Kuhlenbeck;H.-J. Freund;M. Wuttig

  • Disorder-induced localization in crystalline phase-change materials

    T. Siegrist;P. Jost;H. Volker;M. Woda

  • The effect of front ZnO:Al surface texture and optical transparency on efficient light trapping in silicon thin-film solar cells

    Michael Berginski;Jürgen Hüpkes;Melanie Schulte;Gunnar Schöpe

  • A Switchable Mid-Infrared Plasmonic Perfect Absorber with Multispectral Thermal Imaging Capability.

    Andreas Tittl;Ann-Katrin U. Michel;Martin Schäferling;Xinghui Yin

  • Polycrystalline SnSe with a thermoelectric figure of merit greater than the single crystal.

    Chongjian Zhou;Yong Kyu Lee;Yuan Yu;Sejin Byun

  • Phase change materials and phase change memory

    Simone Raoux;Feng Xiong;Matthias Wuttig;Eric Pop

  • Design Rules for Phase‐Change Materials in Data Storage Applications

    Dominic Lencer;Martin Salinga;Matthias Wuttig

  • The role of vacancies and local distortions in the design of new phase-change materials.

    Matthias Wuttig;Daniel Lüsebrink;Daniel Wamwangi;Wojciech We lstrok

  • Magnetic live surface layers in Fe/Cu(100).

    J. Thomassen;F. May;B. Feldmann;M. Wuttig

  • Nanosecond switching in GeTe phase change memory cells

    G. Bruns;P. Merkelbach;C. Schlockermann;M. Salinga

  • Density changes upon crystallization of Ge2Sb2.04Te4.74 films

    Walter Kamande Njoroge;Han-Willem Wöltgens;Matthias Wuttig

  • Laser induced crystallization of amorphous Ge2Sb2Te5 films

    V. Weidenhof;I. Friedrich;S. Ziegler;M. Wuttig

  • Reversible optical switching of highly confined phonon-polaritons with an ultrathin phase-change material

    Peining Li;Xiaosheng Yang;Tobias W. W. Maß;Julian Hanss

  • Unravelling the interplay of local structure and physical properties in phase-change materials

    Wojciech Wełnic;Ariesto Pamungkas;Ralf Detemple;Christoph Steimer

Frequent Co-Authors

Oana Cojocaru-Mirédin
Oana Cojocaru-Mirédin University of Freiburg
Wei Zhang
Wei Zhang Wuhan University of Science and Technology
Harald Ibach
Harald Ibach Forschungszentrum Jülich
Rainer Waser
Rainer Waser RWTH Aachen University
Stefan Blügel
Stefan Blügel Forschungszentrum Jülich
Joachim Mayer
Joachim Mayer RWTH Aachen University
Richard Dronskowski
Richard Dronskowski RWTH Aachen University
Aaron M. Lindenberg
Aaron M. Lindenberg Stanford University
Thomas Michely
Thomas Michely University of Cologne
Christina Scheu
Christina Scheu Max Planck Society

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