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Over the last decade, dendrites within individual biological neurons, which were previously thought to generally perform information pooling and networking, have now been shown to express complex temporal dynamics, Boolean-like logic,…

Active control and manipulation of electromagnetic waves are highly desirable for advanced photonic device technology, such as optical cloaking, active camouflage and information processing. Designing optical resonators with high…

Optics · Physics 2022-02-01 Haiyu Meng , Lingling Wang , Ziran Liu , Jianghua Chen , Ching Hua Lee , Yee Sin Ang

The success of semiconductor electronics is built on the creation of compact, low-power switching elements that offer routing, logic, and memory functions. The availability of nanoscale optical switches could have a similarly transformative…

Programmable and reconfigurable optics hold significant potential for transforming a broad spectrum of applications, spanning space explorations to biomedical imaging, gas sensing, and optical cloaking. The ability to adjust the optical…

Resistance switching memory cells such as electrochemical metallization cells and valence change mechanism cells have the potential to revolutionize information processing and storage. However, the creation of deterministic resistance…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-10-03 V. A. Slipko , Y. V. Pershin

Quantum memory is the core device for the construction of large-scale quantum networks. For scalable and convenient practical applications, integrated optical memories, especially on-chip optical memories, are crucial requirements because…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-12-07 Tian-Xiang Zhu , Chao Liu , Liang Zheng , Zong-Quan Zhou , Chuan-Feng Li , Guang-Can Guo

Progress in high-performance computing demands significant advances in memory technology. Among novel memory technologies that promise efficient device operation on a sub-ns timescale, resistance switching between charge ordered phases of…

Phase change memory (PCM) relies on a reversible transition between amorphous and crystalline states of a material, and stands as a promising candidate for next-generation, energy-efficient data storage and neuromorphic hardware. Here, we…

Correlated phases of matter provide long-term stability for systems as diverse as solids, magnets, and potential exotic quantum materials. Mechanical systems, such as relays and buckling transition spring switches can yield similar…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-11-30 Haitan Xu , Utku Kemiktarak , Jingyun Fan , Stephen Ragole , John Lawall , Jacob M. Taylor

Stability is a key property of dynamical systems. In some cases, we want to change unstable system into stable one to achieve certain goals in engineering. Here, we present an example of a $3$ dimensional switched system that alternates…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-10-20 Yuyi Zhang , Yao Guo

Redox-based memristive devices are among the alternatives for the next generation of non volatile memories, but also candidates to emulate the behavior of synapses in neuromorphic computing devices. It is nowadays well established that the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 Cristian Ferreyra , Wilson Román Acevedo , Ralph Gay , Diego Rubi , María José Sánchez

In this paper, we present a new compact model of threshold switching devices which is suitable for efficient circuit-level simulations. First, a macro model, based on a compact transistor based circuit, was implemented in LTSPICE. Then, a…

We have computationally demonstrated logic function implementations using lateral and vertical multi-contact phase change devices integrated with CMOS circuitry, which use thermal cross-talk as a coupling mechanism to implement logic…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-01-11 Nadim Kanan , Raihan Sayeed Khan , Zachary Woods , Helena Silva , Ali Gokirmak

Electrically tunable optical devices present diverse functionalities for manipulating electromagnetic waves by leveraging elements capable of reversibly switching between different optical states. This adaptability in adjusting their…

For decades, conventional computers based on the von Neumann architecture have performed computation by repeatedly transferring data between their processing and their memory units, which are physically separated. As computation becomes…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2018-02-07 Abu Sebastian , Tomas Tuma , Nikolaos Papandreou , Manuel Le Gallo , Lukas Kull , Thomas Parnell , Evangelos Eleftheriou

Deterministic optical quantum logic requires a nonlinear quantum process that alters the phase of a quantum optical state by $\pi$ through interaction with only one photon. Here, we demonstrate a large conditional cross-phase modulation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-09-13 Kristin M. Beck , Mahdi Hosseini , Yiheng Duan , Vladan Vuletić

Memory is fundamental to intelligence, enabling learning, reasoning, and adaptability across biological and artificial systems. While Transformer architectures excel at sequence modeling, they face critical limitations in long-range context…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Parsa Omidi , Xingshuai Huang , Axel Laborieux , Bahareh Nikpour , Tianyu Shi , Armaghan Eshaghi

The functionality of logic and memory elements in current electronics is based on multi-stability, driven either by manipulating local concentrations of electrons in transistors, or by switching between equivalent states of a material with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-12 I. Vaskivskyi , I. A. Mihailovic , S. Brazovskii , J. Gospodaric , T. Mertelj , D. Svetin , P. Sutar , D. Mihailovic

Reconfigurable photonic systems featuring minimal power consumption are crucial for integrated optical devices in real-world technology. Current active devices available in foundries, however, use volatile methods to modulate light,…

Traditional DRAM-based main memory systems face several challenges with memory refresh overhead, high latency, and low throughput as the industry moves towards smaller DRAM cells. These issues have been exacerbated by the emergence of…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-11-16 Febin Sunny , Amin Shafiee , Benoit Charbonnier , Mahdi Nikdast , Sudeep Pasricha