Capture the Second Critical Point in the No-man’s Land of Semiconducting Materials

Capture the Second Critical Point in the No-man’s Land of Semiconducting Materials  
 
The project will explore a mysterious short-lived amorphous state of semiconducting materials to hunt for a special phase transformation, where all properties are suddenly “blown up” to incredibly large values. With world’s most powerful X-ray sources, we will ”snapshot” atomic motion in less than one trillionth of a second to capture new phase transformations. The finding may be exploited for future superfast computer memory technologies. The grant will fund one PhD student, one postdoc, and new equipment.