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According to Web of Science, the manuscript “Towards Oxide Electronics: a Roadmap” by M. Coll et al., published on Applied Surface Science (Volume 482, 15 July 2019), is among the top cited papers.
Fabio Miletto Granozio, director of SPIN, is leading and corresponding author for this review that deals with a major challenge for 21st century scientists: 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, the oxide films and heterostructures are key players with a great potential to contribute to this timely challenge. The roadmap is the final outcome of a wide four-year project, named Towards Oxide-Based Electronics (TO-BE), that has been coordinated by SPIN in the person of Fabio Miletto Granozio and has been recently running in Europe with several hundred scientists from 29 EU countries as participants.
