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The Stanford R. Ovshinsky Prize for Excellence in Amorphous Chalcogenides
for the Year 2009

was conferred in Constanta (Romania)

During The forth International Conference on Amorphous and Nanostructured Chalcogenides,
June 29 - July 3, 2010

to

Prof. Matthieu Micoulaut 
Universite Pierre et Marie Curie


Main results in the field of Chalcogenide Materials


1) Topological based theories for compositional trends of the glass transition temperature. Demonstration that connectivity aspects play a key role. There is substantial experimental evidence for his predictions of Tg variation with mean coordination number based on Stochastic Agglomeration Theory. This work for the first time connects " Aspects of Molecular Structure to the Glass Transition Temperature". The prevailing view that Tg is controlled strictly or only by dynamics, has in my opinion caused much misunderstanding in the field. 

2) First phenomenological models for non-mean field effects in glasses. Interpretation of Intermediate phases and rigidity transitions. He wrote a paper with Jim Phillips on Rings and Rigidity- well cited, and an important contribution in the field in understanding at a qualitative level Intermediate Phases in Chalcogenides. He is now editing a book on the subject. 

3) He established a crucial link between elastic nature of networks and fast-ion transport or ionic conduction. The central idea is that network flexibility promotes conduction in solid electrolytes. 

4)Improvement of ab intitio modelling of chalcogenides. Gaining an increased accuracy of electronic models, applied to GeSe2. Recently they have published a paper with Carlo Massobrio on the structure of GeSe4 glass that will appear in PRB. 

5) More recently, Matthieu has been active in developing models of rigidity to phase change materials leading to the rigidity phase diagram in GST materials. This work should open a new perspective enabling to study phase change materials in much the same fashion as network glasses. 

 

 

 

Matthieu Micoulaut, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, France





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"Stanford R. Ovshinsky" Award was founded in 2001, with the aim to recognize the great achievements in the field of chalcogenides. , 

 

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Since then, the winners of the award Prize were:

2001  Prof. Stephen R. Elliott (Cambridge University, UK) and Prof. Keiji Tanaka (Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan)

2002  Prof. Victor Lyubin (Ben-Gurion University, Negev, Israel) and Dr. Alexander Kolobov (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tsukuba, Japan)

2003  Prof. Punit Boolchand (University of Cincinnati, USA) and Prof. Koichi Shimakawa (Gifu University, Japan)

2004  Prof. Hellmut Fritzsche (James Franck Institute, Chicago, USA) and Prof. Mihai Popescu (Institute of Materials Physics, Bucharest, Romania)

2005  Prof. Andrei Andriesh (Academy of Sciences of Moldova, Chisinau, Moldova)

2006  Prof. Miloslav Frumar (University of Pardubice, Czech Republic)

2007  Prof. Matthias Wuttig (I. Physikalisches Institut der RWTH Aachen, Germany)

2008  Prof. Annie Pradel (University of Montpellier II, France)

2009  Prof. Matthieu Micoulaut (Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France)

2010  Prof. Noboru Yamada (Panasonic, Japan)

2012  Prof. Gerald Lucovsky (North Carolina State University, USA)