Molecular dynamics simulation of phase change in Ge-rich GeSbTe materials

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Organisation

The French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) is a key player in research, development and innovation in four main areas :
• defence and security,
• nuclear energy (fission and fusion),
• technological research for industry,
• fundamental research in the physical sciences and life sciences.

Drawing on its widely acknowledged expertise, and thanks to its 16000 technicians, engineers, researchers and staff, the CEA actively participates in collaborative projects with a large number of academic and industrial partners.

The CEA is established in ten centers spread throughout France
  

Reference

SL-DRT-24-0754  

Direction

DRT

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Technological challenges

Thesis topics

Molecular dynamics simulation of phase change in Ge-rich GeSbTe materials

Contract

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Job description

The goal of this thesis is to study the phase change of Ge-rich GST with molecular dynamics (MD) simulations using equivariant graph neural networks interatomic potentials (GNN-IP). The candidate will train a GNN-IP model on ab initio reference calculations of Ge-rich GST in order to describe amorphous and crystalline phases. The GNN-IP will be used to compute thermodynamic and kinetic properties of the phase transitions. In a second step, further developments including the effect of impurities and the impact of an electrical field on the phase change will be addressed. Finally, physical parameters computed from MD simulations will be employed to improve our in-house mesoscopic model based on the phase-field method.

University / doctoral school

Ingénierie - Matériaux - Environnement - Energétique - Procédés - Production (IMEP2)
Université Grenoble Alpes

Thesis topic location

Site

Grenoble

Requester

Position start date

01/09/2024

Person to be contacted by the applicant

SKLENARD Benoît benoit.sklenard@cea.fr
CEA
DRT/DCOS//LSM
MINATEC Campus
F-38054 Grenoble
France
0438786532

Tutor / Responsible thesis director





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