Advances in topological materials
Great leaps of civilization have always been enabled by important discoveries of new materials and their functionalities.It is only fitting that the Brotze and Iron Ages are named after the materials themselves.The Information Age based on silicon processing has brought great advances to our civilization;however,the pace of the rapid progress cannot be sustained any longer.The random motion of electrons inside the semiconductor chips generate vast amounts of heat which prevents the scaling according to Moore”s law.However,this unprecedented crisis also offers opportunities to search for new principles and new materials for information processing.The discovery of topological materials offers a new platform in which electrons move just like automobiles on a highway,where counter-moving traffics are spatially separated into different lanes.This type of motion is enabled by the spin-orbit coupling in topological materials with heavy,elements,and could dramatically reduce the dissipation.In recent years,topological materials have been theoretically predicted and experimentally observed.The frontier of the field has now moved to controlled material processing and the discovery of novel properties associated with these materials.
information processing、material processing、materials for、type of
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O4(物理学)
2012-08-27（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）
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