Towards Oxide Electronics: a Roadmap
Journal article, 2019

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 heterostructures, in sectors as data storage and computing, optics and plasmonics, magnonics, energy conversion and harvesting, and power electronics.

Author

M. Coll

Institute of Material Science of Barcelona (ICMAB)

J. Fontcuberta

Institute of Material Science of Barcelona (ICMAB)

M. Althammer

Walther-Meissner-Institute for Low Temperature Research

Technical University of Munich

M. Bibes

Thales Group

H. Boschker

Max Planck Society

A. Calleja

Oxolutia S.L

G. Cheng

University of Science and Technology of China

University of Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh Quantum Institute

M. Cuoco

University of Salerno

R. Dittmann

Forschungszentrum Jülich

B. Dkhil

Laboratoire Structures, Propriétés et Modélisation des Solides

I. El Baggari

Cornell University

M. Fanciulli

University of Milano-Bicocca

I. Fina

Institute of Material Science of Barcelona (ICMAB)

E. Fortunato

CEMOP/UNINOVA

Nova University of Lisbon

C. Frontera

Institute of Material Science of Barcelona (ICMAB)

S. Fujita

Kyoto University

V. Garcia

Thales Group

S. T.B. Goennenwein

Technische Universität Dresden

C. G. Granqvist

Uppsala University

J. Grollier

Thales Group

R. Gross

Walther-Meissner-Institute for Low Temperature Research

Technical University of Munich

Nanosystems Initiative Munich (NIM)

A. Hagfeldt

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL)

G. Herranz

Institute of Material Science of Barcelona (ICMAB)

K. Hono

National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS)

E. Houwman

MESA Institute for Nanotechnology

M. Huijben

MESA Institute for Nanotechnology

Alexei Kalaboukhov

Chalmers, Microtechnology and Nanoscience (MC2), Quantum Device Physics

D. J. Keeble

University of Dundee

G. Koster

MESA Institute for Nanotechnology

L. F. Kourkoutis

Kavli Institute at Cornell for Nanoscale Science

Cornell University

J. Levy

University of Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh Quantum Institute

M. Lira-Cantu

Institut Catala de Nanociencia i Nanotecnologia

J. L. MacManus-Driscoll

University of Cambridge

Jochen Mannhart

Max Planck Society

R. Martins

University of Milano-Bicocca

Consiglo Nazionale Delle Richerche

S. Menzel

Pittsburgh Quantum Institute

T. Mikolajick

Technische Universität Dresden

NaMLab GGmbH

M. Napari

University of Cambridge

M. D. Nguyen

MESA Institute for Nanotechnology

G. A. Niklasson

Uppsala University

C. Paillard

University of Arkansas System

S. Panigrahi

CEMOP/UNINOVA

Nova University of Lisbon

G. Rijnders

MESA Institute for Nanotechnology

F. Sánchez

Institute of Material Science of Barcelona (ICMAB)

P. Sanchis

Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPV)

S. Sanna

Technical University of Denmark (DTU)

D. G. Schlom

Cornell University

U. Schroeder

NaMLab GGmbH

K. M. Shen

Kavli Institute at Cornell for Nanoscale Science

Cornell University

A. Siemon

RWTH Aachen University

Matjaz Spreitzer

Jozef Stefan Institute

H. Sukegawa

National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS)

R. Tamayo

Oxolutia S.L

J. van den Brink

Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research Dresedn

N. Pryds

Technical University of Denmark (DTU)

F. Miletto Granozio

Superconductors, oxides and other innovative materials and devices

Applied Surface Science

0169-4332 (ISSN)

Vol. 482 1-93

Subject Categories

Materials Chemistry

Nano Technology

Condensed Matter Physics

DOI

10.1016/j.apsusc.2019.03.312

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