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Beyond-Moore computing technologies are expected to provide a sustainable alternative to the von Neumann approach not only due to their down-scaling potential but also via exploiting device-level functional complexity at the lowest possible…

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Due to stringent thermal budgets in cryogenic technologies such as superconducting quantum computers and sensors, minimizing the energy dissipation and power consumption of cryogenic electronic components is pivotal for large-scale devices.…

With the broad recent research on ferroelectric hafnium oxide for non-volatile memory technology, depolarization effects in HfO2-based ferroelectric devices gained a lot of interest. Understanding the physical mechanisms regulating the…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Luca Fehlings , Thomas Mikolajick , Beatriz Noheda , Erika Covi

Kinetic 3D lattice Monte Carlo studies are presented on Si nanocrystal (NC) formation by phase separation in 1 keV Si implanted thin SiO2 films. The simulation start from Si depth profiles calculated using the dynamic, high-fluence binary…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 T. Mueller , K. -H. Heinig , W. Moeller

The great potential of memristive devices for real-world applications still relies on overcoming key technical challenges, including the need for a larger number of stable resistance states, faster switching speeds, lower SET/RESET…

Electrical switching and rectifying properties of the metal-VO2-Si structures, on both p-type and n-type silicon, with vanadium dioxide films obtained by an acetylacetonate sol-gel method, are studied. The switching effect is shown to be…

We report a group of unusually big molecular orbitals in the C60/pentacene complex. Our first-principles density functional calculation shows that these orbitals are very delocalized and cover both C60 and pentacene, which we call…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-12-21 G. P. Zhang , A. Gardner , T. Latta , K. Drake , Y. H. Bai

We have experimentally and theoretically investigated the spin transport in Fe/Mg/MgO/MgAl2O4/n+-Si(001) ferromagnetic tunnel junctions on a Si substrate, by systematically varying the thickness combination of amorphous MgO and MgAl2O4…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-07-15 Baisen Yu , Shoichi Sato , Masaaki Tanaka , Ryosho Nakane

Non-volatile resistive switching, also known as memristor effect in two terminal devices, has emerged as one of the most important components in the ongoing development of high-density information storage, brain-inspired computing, and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-02-06 Saban M. Hus , Ruijing Ge , Po-An Chen , Meng-Hsueh Chiang , Gavin E. Donnelly , Wonhee Ko , Fumin Huang , Liangbo Liang , An-Ping Li , Deji Akinwande

Brain-inspired computing has the potential to revolutionise the current von Neumann architecture, advancing machine learning applications. Signal transmission in the brain relies on voltage-gated ion channels, which exhibit the electrical…

This study comprehensively characterizes, with suggested applications, a novel two-dimensional carbon allotrope, C$_{16}$, using Density Functional Theory and machine learning-based molecular dynamics. This nanomaterial is derived from…

Neuromorphic systems that densely integrate CMOS spiking neurons and nano-scale memristor synapses open a new avenue of brain-inspired computing. Existing silicon neurons have molded neural biophysical dynamics but are incompatible with…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2015-06-10 Xinyu Wu , Vishal Saxena , Kehan Zhu

Single molecule magnets straddle the classical and quantum mechanical worlds, displaying many fascinating phenomena. They may have important technological applications in information storage and quantum computation. We review the physical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-08-06 Jonathan R. Friedman , Myriam P. Sarachik

We created epitaxial magnetic tunnel junctions of FeCo/MgO/EuS on MgO buffered Si (100). Tunnel magnetoresistance reached up to 64% at 4.2 K. An unexpected fast drop of magnetoresistance was recorded for MgO thickness above 1 nm, which is…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-08-09 Zhiwei Gao , Yihang Yang , Fen Liu , Qian Xue , Guo-Xing Miao

Many key electronic technologies (e.g., large-scale computing, machine learning, and superconducting electronics) require new memories that are fast, reliable, energy-efficient, and of low-impedance at the same time, which has remained a…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-01-15 Lijun Zhu , Lujun Zhu , Shengjie Shi , D. C. Ralph , R. A. Buhrman

Multilayer nanoscale systems incorporating buried ultrathin tunnel oxides, 2D materials, and solid electrolytes are crucial for next-generation logics, memory, quantum and neuro-inspired computing. Still, an ultrathin layer control at…

Magnetic skyrmions are promising candidates for logic-in-memory applications, intrinsically merging high density non-volatile data storage with computing capabilities, owing to their nanoscale size, fast motion, and mutual repulsions.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-09-07 Naveen Sisodia , Johan Pelloux-Prayer , Liliana D. Buda-Prejbeanu , Lorena Anghel , Gilles Gaudin , Olivier Boulle

The advent of nanoscale memristors raised hopes of being able to build CMOL (CMOS/nanowire/moLecular) type ultra-dense in-memory-computing circuit architectures. In CMOL, nanoscale memristors would be fabricated at the intersection of…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2022-09-14 L. A. Camuñas-Mesa , E. Vianello , C. Reita , T. Serrano-Gotarredona , B. Linares-Barranco

The current work proposes a novel scheme for developing a light-activated non-filamentary memristor device by fabricating an Au-nanoparticle embedded HfO$_2$-bilayer/p-Si MOS structure. Under illumination, the electrons in such embedded…