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Magnetic skyrmions are promising candidates for next-generation information carriers, owing to their small size, topological stability, and ultralow depinning current density. A wide variety of skyrmionic device concepts and prototypes have…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2017-02-21 Yangqi Huang , Wang Kang , Xichao Zhang , Yan Zhou , Weisheng Zhao

A new spintronic nonvolatile memory cell analogous to 1T DRAM with non-destructive read is proposed. The cells can be used as neural computing units. A dual-circuit neural network architecture is proposed to leverage these devices against…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2019-05-31 Andrew W. Stephan , Qiuwen Lou , Michael Niemier , X. Sharon Hu , Steven J. Koester

This article aims at giving a general presentation of spintronics, an important field of research developing today along many new directions in physics of condensed matter. We tried to present simply the physical phenomena involved in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-12-02 Albert Fert , Frédéric Nguyen van Dau

While magnetic solid-state memory has found commercial applications to date, magnetic logic has rather remained on a conceptual level so far. Here, we discuss open challenges of different spintronic logic approaches, which use magnetic…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2024-01-19 Christoph Adelmann , Florin Ciubotaru , Fanfan Meng , Sorin Cotofana , Sebastien Couet

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) have captured apparent interest over the recent years, stemming from neuroscience and reaching the field of artificial intelligence. However, due to their nature SNNs remain far behind in achieving the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-22 Katerina Maria Oikonomou , Vasiliki Balaska , Konstantinos A. Tsintotas , Christos N. Mavridis , Ioannis Kansizoglou , Antonios Gasteratos

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) are inspired by the sparse and event-driven nature of biological neural processing, and offer the potential for ultra-low-power artificial intelligence. However, realizing their efficiency benefits requires…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Ilkin Aliyev , Kama Svoboda , Tosiron Adegbija , Jean-Marc Fellous

Abstract: Bionic learning with fused sensing, memory and processing functions outperforms artificial neural networks running on silicon chips in terms of efficiency and footprint. However, digital hardware implementation of bionic learning…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Shijie Wang , Xi Chen , Chao Zhao , Yuxin Kong , Baojun Lin , Yongyi Wu , Zhaozhao Bi , Ziyi Xuan , Tao Li , Yuxiang Li , Wei Zhang , En Ma , Zhongrui Wang , Wei Ma

The human brain has immense learning capabilities at extreme energy efficiencies and scale that no artificial system has been able to match. For decades, reverse engineering the brain has been one of the top priorities of science and…

Variability has always been a challenge to mitigate in electronics. This especially holds true for organic semiconductors, where reproducibility and long-term stability concerns hinder industrialization. By relying on a bio-inspired…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Scholaert Corentin , Coffinier Yannick , Pecqueur Sébastien , Alibart Fabien

Nanophotonics provides the ability to rapidly and precisely reconfigure light beams on a compact platform. Infrared nanophotonic devices are widely used in data communications to overcome traditional bandwidth limitations of electrical…

As nanoelectronics approaches the nanometer scale, a massive effort is underway to identify the next scalable logic technology beyond Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor (CMOS) computing. Such computing technology needs to improve…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-07 Sasikanth Manipatruni , Dmitri E. Nikonov , Ramamoorthy Ramesh , Huichu Li , Ian A. Young

We review several proposed spintronic devices that can provide new functionality or improve available functions of electronic devices. In particular, we discuss a high mobility field effect spin transistor, an all-metal spin transistor, and…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 S. Das Sarma , Jaroslav Fabian , Xuedong Hu , Igor Zutic

Concurrent advances across fields such as organoid technology, Microelectrode Arrays (MEAs), neuromorphic computing, and machine learning have given rise to a groundbreaking research paradigm: Synthetic Biological Intelligence (SBI). SBI…

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) communicate via discrete spikes in time rather than continuous activations. Their event-driven nature offers advantages for temporal processing and energy efficiency on resource-constrained hardware, but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Karol C. Jurzec , Tomasz Szydlo , Maciej Wielgosz

Spiking Neural Networks (SNN) represent a biologically inspired computation model capable of emulating neural computation in human brain and brain-like structures. The main promise is very low energy consumption. Unfortunately, classic Von…

Quantum technologies aim to assemble devices whose operation is controlled by the quantum state of individual atoms. Achieving this level of control in a practical, scalable design remains, however, a major obstacle to mass societal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-26 T. Zafar , L. M. Kandpal , E. Urbain , N. Beyer , B. Gobaut , L. Joly , H. Majjad , S. Siegwald , D. Mertz , B. Leconte , C. Kieber , V. Da Costa , W. Weber , S. Boukari , M. Bowen

Recent studies have shown that nonlinear magnetization dynamics excited in nanostructured ferromagnets are applicable to brain-inspired computing such as physical reservoir computing. The previous works have utilized the magnetization…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-26 Tomohiro Taniguchi , Amon Ogihara , Yasuhiro Utsumi , Sumito Tsunegi

Spintronic diodes are emerging as disruptive candidates for impacting several technological applications ranging from the Internet of Things to Artificial Intelligence. In this letter, an overview of the recent achievements on spintronic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-05 Giovanni Finocchio , Riccardo Tomasello , Bin Fang , Anna Giordano , Vito Puliafito , Mario Carpentieri , Zhongming Zeng

The development of artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics are both based on the tenet of "science and technology are people-oriented", and both need to achieve efficient communication with the human brain. Based on multi-disciplinary…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2024-06-27 Shengjie Zheng , Ling Liu , Junjie Yang , Jianwei Zhang , Tao Su , Bin Yue , Xiaojian Li

In this paper we review the recent field of organic spintronics, where organic materials are applied as a medium to transport and control spin-polarized signals. The contacts for injecting and detecting spins are formed by metals, oxides,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-06-13 W. J. M. Naber , S. Faez , W. G. van der Wiel