1. Towards Oxide Electronics: a Roadmap
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Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research, National Science Foundation (US), Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (España), Generalitat de Catalunya, Slovenian Research Agency, Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (UK), Air Force Office of Scientific Research (US), German Research Foundation, European Cooperation in Science and Technology, European Research Council, European Commission, Agence Nationale de la Recherche (France), Free State of Saxony, Office of Naval Research (US), Council for Science, Technology and Innovation (Japan), Fundación Repsol, Dirección General de Investigación Científica y Técnica, DGICT (España), Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (Portugal), Coll, Mariona, Fontcuberta, Josep, Althammer, M., Bibes, Manuel, Boschker, H., Calleja Lázaro, Alberto, Cheng, G., Cuoco, M., Dittmann, Regina, Dkhil, B., El Baggari, I., Fanciulli, M., Fina, Ignasi, Fortunato, E., Frontera, Carlos, Fujita, S., Garcia, V., Goennenwein, S.T.B., Granqvist, C.-G., Grollier, J., Gross, R., Hagfeldt, A., Herranz, Gervasi, Hono, K., Houwman, E., Huijben, M., Kalaboukhov, A., Keeble, D.J., Koster, G., Kourkoutis, L.F., Levy, J., Lira-Cantú, Mónica, MacManus-Driscoll, J.L., Mannhart, Jochen, Martins, R., Menzel, S., Mikolajick, T., Napari, M., Nguyen, M.D., Niklasson, G., Paillard, C., Panigrahi, S., Rijnders, G., Sánchez Barrera, Florencio, Sanchis, P., Sanna, S., Schlom, Darrell G., Schroeder, U., Shen, K.M., Siemon, A., Spreitzer, M., Sukegawa, H., Tamayo, R. R., Brink, J. van den, Pryds, N., Miletto Granozio, F., Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research, National Science Foundation (US), Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (España), Generalitat de Catalunya, Slovenian Research Agency, Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (UK), Air Force Office of Scientific Research (US), German Research Foundation, European Cooperation in Science and Technology, European Research Council, European Commission, Agence Nationale de la Recherche (France), Free State of Saxony, Office of Naval Research (US), Council for Science, Technology and Innovation (Japan), Fundación Repsol, Dirección General de Investigación Científica y Técnica, DGICT (España), Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (Portugal), Coll, Mariona, Fontcuberta, Josep, Althammer, M., Bibes, Manuel, Boschker, H., Calleja Lázaro, Alberto, Cheng, G., Cuoco, M., Dittmann, Regina, Dkhil, B., El Baggari, I., Fanciulli, M., Fina, Ignasi, Fortunato, E., Frontera, Carlos, Fujita, S., Garcia, V., Goennenwein, S.T.B., Granqvist, C.-G., Grollier, J., Gross, R., Hagfeldt, A., Herranz, Gervasi, Hono, K., Houwman, E., Huijben, M., Kalaboukhov, A., Keeble, D.J., Koster, G., Kourkoutis, L.F., Levy, J., Lira-Cantú, Mónica, MacManus-Driscoll, J.L., Mannhart, Jochen, Martins, R., Menzel, S., Mikolajick, T., Napari, M., Nguyen, M.D., Niklasson, G., Paillard, C., Panigrahi, S., Rijnders, G., Sánchez Barrera, Florencio, Sanchis, P., Sanna, S., Schlom, Darrell G., Schroeder, U., Shen, K.M., Siemon, A., Spreitzer, M., Sukegawa, H., Tamayo, R. R., Brink, J. van den, Pryds, N., and Miletto Granozio, F.
- Abstract
At the end of a rush lasting over half a century, in which CMOS technology has been experiencing a constant and breathtaking increase of device speed and density, Moore’s law is approaching the insurmountable barrier given by the ultimate atomic nature of matter. A major challenge for 21st century scientists is finding novel strategies, concepts and materials for replacing silicon-based CMOS semiconductor technologies and guaranteeing a continued and steady technological progress in next decades. Among the materials classes candidate to contribute to this momentous challenge, oxide films and heterostructures are a particularly appealing hunting ground. The vastity, intended in pure chemical terms, of this class of compounds, the complexity of their correlated behaviour, and the wealth of functional properties they display, has already made these systems the subject of choice, worldwide, of a strongly networked, dynamic and interdisciplinary research community. Oxide science and technology has been the target of a wide four-year project, named Towards Oxide-Based Electronics (TO-BE), that has been recently running in Europe and has involved as participants several hundred scientists from 29 EU countries. In this review and perspective paper, published as a final deliverable of the TO-BE Action, the opportunities of oxides as future electronic materials for Information and Communication Technologies ICT and Energy are discussed. The paper is organized as a set of contributions, all selected and ordered as individual building blocks of a wider general scheme. After a brief preface by the editors and an introductory contribution, two sections follow. The first is mainly devoted to providing a perspective on the latest theoretical and experimental methods that are employed to investigate oxides and to produce oxide-based films, heterostructures and devices. In the second, all contributions are dedicated to different specific fields of applications of oxide thin films and
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- 2019