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With an Impact Factor of nearly 19, ranked Q1 by Scimago, and listed in the Nature Index, Advanced Functional Materials is among the most prestigious academic forums in the field. This international publication is clear evidence of the strong collaborative power between the two leading national universities of Vietnam in scientific research and innovation.
Two research groups, one led by Assoc.Prof.Dr. Nguyen Tran Thuat, Director of the Institute of Semiconductors and Advanced Materials under VNU High-Tech Park and Innovation, and a senior researcher at VNU University of Science; and the other led by Assoc.Prof.Dr. Pham Kim Ngoc, VNU-HCMC University of Science, together with domestic and international collaborators, have recently published their work in Wiley’s Advanced Functional Materials (AFM), one of the world’s most prestigious journals in materials science and solid-state physics.
The paper, titled “Selector-Free 16 × 16 CrOx/TiO2-Based Memristor Array for Synaptic Dynamics and LTP/LTD Emulation: Experimental–Computational Correlation” (DOI: 10.1002/adfm.202516695), is a representative outcome of a research project funded by the VinIF Innovation Fund, with Assoc.Prof.Dr. Pham Kim Ngoc as principal investigator and Assoc.Prof.Dr. Nguyen Tran Thuat as co-principal investigator.
The work is the result of the collaboration among multiple domestic and international institutions, with the close, interdisciplinary cooperation between VNU-HCMC and VNU-Hanoi, playing a key role in implementing the research. This highlights the strength of the linkage between the country’s two leading centers of education and research. The work also received support from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) in stencil lithography techniques and from Tohoku University (Japan) in computational modeling.
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The publication of the study in AFM not only affirms the research capacity of the joint research team but also carries long-term significance. Academically, the study contributes to clarifying the operational mechanisms of memristors, laying the foundation for the development of large-scale brain-inspired computing systems. Technologically, the study’s fabrication process is recognized as simple, cost-effective and compatible with CMOS microelectronics technology, showing its highly-likely integratability into conventional electronic chips. Strategically, this study represents an important step for Vietnam in gradually joining the global semiconductor technology and AI hardware development chain – the two fields of critical importance in the Industry 4.0 and digital transformation era. At the same time, it demonstrates the effectiveness of the collaborative mechanism among the state, universities, research funding organizations, and enterprises, thereby creating a favorable scientific environment for the young generation.
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