In recent years, the notion of ‘Quantum Materials’ has emerged as a powerful unifying concept across diverse fields of science and engineering, from condensed-matter and coldatom physics to materials science and quantum computing. Beyond traditional quantum materials such as unconventional superconductors, heavy fermions, and multiferroics, the field has significantly expanded to encompass topological quantum matter, two-dimensional materials and their van der Waals heterostructures, Moiré materials, Floquet time crystals, as well as materials and devices for quantum computation with Majorana fermions. In this Roadmap collection we aim to capture a snapshot of the most recent developments in the field, and to identify outstanding challenges and emerging opportunities. The format of the Roadmap, whereby experts in each discipline share their viewpoint and articulate their vision for quantum materials, reflects the dynamic and multifaceted nature of this research area, and is meant to encourage exchanges and discussions across traditional disciplinary boundaries. It is our hope that this collective vision will contribute to sparking new fascinating questions and activities at the intersection of materials science, condensed matter physics, device engineering, and quantum information, and to shaping a clearer landscape of quantum materials science as a new frontier of interdisciplinary scientific inquiry. We stress that this article is not meant to be a fully comprehensive review but rather an up-to-date snapshot of different areas of research on quantum materials with a minimal number of references focusing on the latest developments.
Memristors (MRs)
are considered promising devices with the enormous
potential to replace complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS)
technology, which approaches the scale limit. Efforts to fabricate
MRs-based hybrid materials may result in suitable operating parameters
coupled to high mechanical flexibility and low cost. Metal–organic
frameworks (MOFs) arise as a favorable candidate to cover such demands.
The step-by-step growth of MOFs structures on functionalized surfaces,
called surface-supported metal–organic frameworks (SURMOFs),
opens the possibility for designing new applications in strategic
fields such as electronics, optoelectronics, and energy harvesting.
However, considering the MRs architecture, the typical high porosity
of these hybrid materials may lead to short-circuited devices easily.
In this sense, here, it is reported for the first time the integration
of SURMOF films in rolled-up scalable-functional devices. A freestanding
metallic nanomembrane provides a robust and self-adjusted top mechanical
contact on the SURMOF layer. The electrical characterization reveals
an ambipolar resistive switching mediated by the humidity level with
low-power consumption. The electronic properties are investigated
with density functional theory (DFT) calculations. Furthermore, the
device concept is versatile, compatible with the current parallelism
demands of integration, and transcends the challenge in contacting
SURMOF films for scalable-functional devices.
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