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The brain's remarkable and efficient information processing capability is driving research into brain-inspired (neuromorphic) computing paradigms. Artificial aqueous ion channels are emerging as an exciting platform for neuromorphic…

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Inspired by the brain, we present a physical alternative to traditional digital neural networks -- a microfluidic network in which nodes are connected by conical, electrolyte-filled channels acting as memristive iontronic synapses. Their…

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Brain-inspired computing architectures attempt to emulate the computations performed in the neurons and the synapses in human brain. Memristors with continuously tunable resistances are ideal building blocks for artificial synapses. Through…

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

Neuromorphic computing which aims to mimic the collective and emergent behavior of the brain's neurons, synapses, axons, dendrites offers an intriguing, potentially disruptive solution to society's ever-growing computational needs. Although…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-08-31 Uday S. Goteti , Ivan A. Zaluzhnyy , Shriram Ramanathan , Robert C. Dynes , Alex Frano

Neuromorphic Computing (NC), which emulates neural activities of the human brain, is considered for low-power implementation of artificial intelligence. Towards realizing NC, fabrication, and investigations of hardware elements such as…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-09-21 P. Monalisha , P. S. Anil Kumar , X. Renshaw Wang , S. N. Piramanayagam

Present day computers expend orders of magnitude more computational resources to perform various cognitive and perception related tasks that humans routinely perform everyday. This has recently resulted in a seismic shift in the field of…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2017-12-22 Abhronil Sengupta , Kaushik Roy

Nanoelectronic devices that mimic the functionality of synapses are a crucial requirement for performing cortical simulations of the brain. In this work we propose a ferromagnet-heavy metal heterostructure that employs spin-orbit torque to…

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CMOS-based computing systems that employ the von Neumann architecture are relatively limited when it comes to parallel data storage and processing. In contrast, the human brain is a living computational signal processing unit that operates…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-08-02 Dmitry Kireev , Samuel Liu , Harrison Jin , T. Patrick Xiao , Christopher H. Bennett , Deji Akinwande , Jean Anne Incorvia

Neuromorphic computing takes inspiration from the brain to create energy efficient hardware for information processing, capable of highly sophisticated tasks. In this article, we make the case that building this new hardware necessitates…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2020-03-26 Danijela Markovic , Alice Mizrahi , Damien Querlioz , Julie Grollier

Hafnium dioxide (HfO2) is a promising ferroelectric (FE) material for achieving high-density nonvolatile memory and neuromorphic computing, due to its compatibility with the mainstream integrated circuit technology and the surprisingly…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-08-16 Guo-Dong Zhao , Xingen Liu , Wei Ren , Xiaona Zhu , Shaofeng Yu

Learning and logic are fundamental brain functions that make the individual to adapt to the environment, and such functions are established in human brain by modulating ionic fluxes in synapses. Nanoscale ionic/electronic devices with…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-04-29 Chang Jin Wan , Li Qiang Zhu , Yi Shi , Qing Wan

My research is dedicated to the electronic properties of functional oxides. My activity specifically focuses on ferroelectric tunnel junctions in which an ultrathin layer of ferroelectric material is intercalated between two metallic…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-11-17 Vincent Garcia

Memristors are continuously tunable resistors that emulate synapses. Conceptualized in the 1970s, they traditionally operate by voltage-induced displacements of matter, but the mechanism remains controversial. Purely electronic memristors…

Many real-world mission-critical applications require continual online learning from noisy data and real-time decision making with a defined confidence level. Probabilistic models and stochastic neural networks can explicitly handle…

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Neuromorphic computing, commonly understood as a computing approach built upon neurons, synapses, and their dynamics, as opposed to Boolean gates, is gaining large mindshare due to its direct application in solving current and future…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Md Golam Morshed , Samiran Ganguly , Avik W. Ghosh

Conventional von-Neumann computing models have achieved remarkable feats for the past few decades. However, they fail to deliver the required efficiency for certain basic tasks like image and speech recognition when compared to biological…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2017-11-27 Akhilesh Jaiswal , Amogh Agrawal , Priyadarshini Panda , Kaushik Roy

Nature inspired neuromorphic architectures are being explored as an alternative to imminent limitations of conventional complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) architectures. Utilization of such architectures for practical…

Applied Physics · Physics 2017-12-29 Saurabh K. Bose , Joshua B. Mallinson , Rodrigo M. Gazoni , Simon A. Brown

This paper gives an overview of recent progress in the brain inspired computing field with a focus on implementation using emerging memories as electronic synapses. Design considerations and challenges such as requirements and design…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-05-09 Sukru Burc Eryilmaz , Duygu Kuzum , Shimeng Yu , H. -S. Philip Wong

Spiking artificial neurons emulate the voltage spikes of biological neurons, and constitute the building blocks of a new class of energy efficient, neuromorphic computing systems. Antiferromagnetic materials can, in theory, be used to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-08-19 Hannah Bradley , Steven Louis , Cody Trevillian , Lily Quach , Elena Bankowski , Andrei Slavin , Vasyl Tyberkevych