Riccardo Mazzarello

34.7k total citations · 3 hit papers
112 papers, 5.3k citations indexed

About

Riccardo Mazzarello is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, Riccardo Mazzarello has authored 112 papers receiving a total of 5.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 95 papers in Materials Chemistry, 74 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 19 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in Riccardo Mazzarello's work include Phase-change materials and chalcogenides (76 papers), Chalcogenide Semiconductor Thin Films (57 papers) and Nonlinear Optical Materials Studies (15 papers). Riccardo Mazzarello is often cited by papers focused on Phase-change materials and chalcogenides (76 papers), Chalcogenide Semiconductor Thin Films (57 papers) and Nonlinear Optical Materials Studies (15 papers). Riccardo Mazzarello collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Italy and China. Riccardo Mazzarello's co-authors include Wei Zhang, Matthias Wuttig, E. Ma, Yuxing Zhou, Ider Ronneberger, Feng Rao, Keyuan Ding, Volker L. Deringer, Marco Bernasconi and Jiangjing Wang and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Physical Review Letters and Advanced Materials.

In The Last Decade

Riccardo Mazzarello

107 papers receiving 5.2k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

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

2019 698 citations Wei Zhang, Riccardo Mazzarello et al. profile →
Reducing the stochasticity of crystal nucleation to enable subnanosecond memory writing

2017 516 citations Yuxing Zhou, Ider Ronneberger et al. profile →
Phase-change heterostructure enables ultralow noise and drift for memory operation

2019 328 citations Jiangjing Wang, Yuxing Zhou et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Riccardo Mazzarello Germany	37	4.5k	3.9k	888	823	624	112	5.3k
Guangsheng Fu China	32	2.7k 0.6×	2.2k 0.6×	564 0.6×	541 0.7×	517 0.8×	288	3.9k
Xin Ou China	36	1.9k 0.4×	2.5k 0.7×	1.0k 1.1×	337 0.4×	826 1.3×	252	4.3k
Xiaodong Pi China	42	3.9k 0.9×	4.4k 1.1×	1.9k 2.1×	578 0.7×	495 0.8×	248	6.6k
Daniel W. Hewak United Kingdom	38	3.5k 0.8×	3.6k 0.9×	949 1.1×	251 0.3×	976 1.6×	175	5.7k
A. Goossens Netherlands	28	3.5k 0.8×	2.5k 0.6×	1.0k 1.2×	341 0.4×	465 0.7×	64	4.6k
Jing Wu China	44	4.8k 1.1×	3.0k 0.8×	1.1k 1.2×	646 0.8×	1.1k 1.7×	184	6.7k
Xiangjian Meng China	46	5.4k 1.2×	4.2k 1.1×	2.0k 2.2×	625 0.8×	1.8k 2.9×	236	7.0k
P. T. Lai Hong Kong	32	2.1k 0.5×	3.9k 1.0×	640 0.7×	429 0.5×	998 1.6×	406	5.2k
Jong Su Kim South Korea	29	2.7k 0.6×	2.6k 0.7×	516 0.6×	199 0.2×	777 1.2×	236	4.0k
U. Böttger Germany	40	6.4k 1.4×	8.6k 2.2×	1.2k 1.3×	495 0.6×	729 1.2×	131	9.7k

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Giuliani, Fernando C., et al.. (2025). Phase‐Change Heterostructures Based on Antimony. physica status solidi (RRL) - Rapid Research Letters. 19(7).

Mazzarello, Riccardo, et al.. (2025). Importance of Density for Phase-Change Materials Demonstrated by Ab Initio Simulations of Amorphous Antimony. Physical Review Letters. 134(4). 46101–46101. 2 indexed citations

Mazzarello, Riccardo, et al.. (2025). Effect of Peierls-like distortions on transport in amorphous phase change devices. Communications Materials. 6(1). 56–56. 1 indexed citations

Mazzarello, Riccardo, et al.. (2024). Ab Initio Study of Novel Phase‐Change Heterostructures. Advanced Science. 11(29). e2402375–e2402375. 5 indexed citations

Mazzarello, Riccardo, et al.. (2024). Growth of Textured Chalcogenide Thin Films and Their Functionalization through Confinement. physica status solidi (a). 221(22). 4 indexed citations

Chu, Ruiqing, Xueyang Shen, Jiayue Wang, et al.. (2024). Ab Initio Investigation of Amorphous and Crystalline Arsenic Sesqui‐Chalcogenides: Optical Properties Explained by Metavalent Bonding. physica status solidi (RRL) - Rapid Research Letters. 19(7). 1 indexed citations

Chen, Yuhan, Yoshio Kono, Seiya Takahashi, et al.. (2023). Pressure-induced reversal of Peierls-like distortions elicits the polyamorphic transition in GeTe and GeSe. Nature Communications. 14(1). 7851–7851. 11 indexed citations

Wang, Xudong, Wen Zhou, Shehzad Ahmed, et al.. (2023). Multiscale simulations of growth-dominated Sb2Te phase-change material for non-volatile photonic applications. npj Computational Materials. 9(1). 13 indexed citations

Raghuwanshi, Mohit, Dasol Kim, Carl‐Friedrich Schön, et al.. (2023). Confinement‐Induced Phonon Softening and Hardening in Sb₂Te₃ Thin Films. Advanced Functional Materials. 34(1). 15 indexed citations

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Jiang, Tingting, Xudong Wang, Jiangjing Wang, et al.. (2022). In situ characterization of vacancy ordering in Ge-Sb-Te phase-change memory alloys. Fundamental Research. 4(5). 1235–1242. 7 indexed citations

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Cheng, Yudong, Qun Yang, Jiangjing Wang, et al.. (2022). Highly tunable β-relaxation enables the tailoring of crystallization in phase-change materials. Nature Communications. 13(1). 7352–7352. 25 indexed citations

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Wang, Jiangjing, Xudong Wang, Lu Lu, et al.. (2022). In‐Plane Twinning Defects in Hexagonal GeSb₂Te₄. Advanced Materials Technologies. 7(8). 5 indexed citations

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Wuttig, Matthias, et al.. (2021). Thermally Controlled Charge‐Carrier Transitions in Disordered PbSbTe Chalcogenides. Advanced Materials. 34(3). e2106868–e2106868. 10 indexed citations

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Mazzarello, Riccardo, et al.. (2021). Point defects in disordered and stable GeSbTe phase-change materials. Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing. 133. 105948–105948. 4 indexed citations

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Wang, Xudong, Heming Li, Yuxing Zhou, et al.. (2021). Change in Structure of Amorphous Sb–Te Phase‐Change Materials as a Function of Stoichiometry. physica status solidi (RRL) - Rapid Research Letters. 15(6). 20 indexed citations

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Wang, Xudong, Wei Zhang, Yuxing Zhou, et al.. (2021). Materials Screening for Disorder‐Controlled Chalcogenide Crystals for Phase‐Change Memory Applications. Advanced Materials. 33(9). e2006221–e2006221. 46 indexed citations

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Ronneberger, Ider, Zeila Zanolli, Matthias Wuttig, & Riccardo Mazzarello. (2020). Changes of Structure and Bonding with Thickness in Chalcogenide Thin Films. Advanced Materials. 32(29). e2001033–e2001033. 34 indexed citations

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Li, Zhen, et al.. (2019). Reduction in thermal conductivity of Sb2Te phase-change material by scandium/yttrium doping. Journal of Alloys and Compounds. 821. 153499–153499. 17 indexed citations

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Xu, Ming, Stefan Jakobs, Riccardo Mazzarello, et al.. (2017). Impact of Pressure on the Resonant Bonding in Chalcogenides. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 121(45). 25447–25454. 37 indexed citations

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Fukushima, Tetsuya, Hiroshi Katayama‐Yoshida, Kazunori Satō, et al.. (2015). First-principles study of magnetic interactions in 3d transition metal-doped phase-change materials. RWTH Publications (RWTH Aachen). 2015. 1 indexed citations

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