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Recent advances in logic schemes and fabrication processes have renewed interest in using superconductor electronics for energy-efficient computing and quantum control processors. However, scalable superconducting memory still poses a…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Jennifer Volk , Alex Wynn , Timothy Sherwood , Georgios Tzimpragos

Superconductor electronics (SCE) is competing to become a platform for efficient implementations of neuromorphic computing and deep learning algorithms (DLAs) with projects mostly concentrating on searching for gates that would better mimic…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-02-03 Vasili K. Semenov , Evan B. Golden , Sergey K. Tolpygo

Diode is one of basic electronic components. It has a nonreciprocal current response, associated with a broken space/time reversal symmetry. Here we demonstrate prototypes of superconducting diodes operational at zero magnetic field. They…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-08-02 T. Golod , V. M. Krasnov

Josephson junctions containing ferromagnetic materials have attracted intense interest both because of their unusual physical properties and because they have potential application for cryogenic memory. There are two ways to store…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-04-22 Norman O. Birge , Alexander E. Madden , Ofer Naaman

We experimentally demonstrate the operation of a Josephson magnetic random access memory unit cell, built with a Ni_80Fe_20/Cu/Ni pseudo spin-valve Josephson junction with Nb electrodes and an integrated readout SQUID in a fully planarized…

Developing ultra-low-energy superconducting computing and fault-tolerant quantum computing will require scalable superconducting memory. While conventional superconducting logic-based memory cells have facilitated early demonstrations,…

Superconducting digital Pulse-Conserving Logic (PCL) and Josephson SRAM (JSRAM) memory together enable scalable circuits with energy efficiency 100x beyond leading-node CMOS. Circuit designs support high throughput and low latency when…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-05-17 Quentin Herr , Trent Josephsen , Anna Herr

The past two decades have seen an explosion of work on Josephson junctions containing ferromagnetic materials. Such junctions are under consideration for applications in digital superconducting logic and memory. In the presence of the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-04-05 Norman O. Birge , Nathan Satchell

Optical communication achieves high fanout and short delay advantageous for information integration in neural systems. Superconducting detectors enable signaling with single photons for maximal energy efficiency. We present designs of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-11-14 Jeffrey M. Shainline , Sonia M. Buckley , Adam N. McCaughan , Jeff Chiles , Richard P. Mirin , Sae Woo Nam

Scalable, low-dissipation memory operating below 4 K is a critical requirement for superconducting and quantum computing systems. Existing cryogenic memory technologies rely on CMOS derivatives or hybrid architectures that incur leakage,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-04-27 Sonam Bhakat , Pushpak Banerjee , Ahmedullah Aziz , Jackson Miller , Avradeep Pal

The operation of a novel nonvolatile memory device based on a conductive ferroelectric/non-ferroelectric thin film multilayer stack is simulated numerically. The simulation involves the self-consistent steady state solution of Poisson's…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Rene Meyer , Hermann Kohlstedt

Highly efficient information processing in brain is based on processing and memory components called synapses, whose output is dependent on the history of the signals passed through them. Here we have developed an artificial synapse with…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-12-28 Pan Wang , Mazhar E. Nasir , Alexey V. Krasavin , Wayne Dickson , Anatoly V. Zayats

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

Non-volatile magnetic storage, from 1940s magnetic core to present day racetrack memory and magnetic anisotropy switching devices rely on the metastability of magnetic domains to store information. However, the inherent inefficiency of…

The magnetoelectric effects in multiferroics have a great potential in creating next-generation memory devices. We conceive a new concept of non-volatile memories based on a type of nonlinear magnetoelectric effects showing a…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-08-17 Jianxin Shen , Junzhuang Cong , Yisheng Chai , Dashan Shang , Shipeng Shen , Kun Zhai , Ying Tian , Young Sun

The lack of dense random access memory is one of the main bottlenecks for the creation of a digital superconducting computer. In this work we study experimentally vortex-based superconducting memory cells. Three main results are obtained.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-08-17 Taras Golod , Lise Morlet-Decarnin , Vladimir M. Krasnov

We develop a theory of pulse conduction in percolation type of materials such as noncrystalline semiconductors and nano-metal compounds. For short voltage pulses, the corresponding electric currents are inversely proportional to the pulse…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-23 V. G. Karpov , G. Serpen , Maria Patmiou , Diana Shvydka

Memtranstor that correlates charge and magnetic flux via nonlinear magnetoelectric effects has a great potential in developing next-generation nonvolatile devices. In addition to multi-level nonvolatile memory, we demonstrate here that…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2017-01-04 Jianxin Shen , Dashan Shang , Yisheng Chai , Yue Wang , Junzhuang Cong , Shipeng Shen , Liqin Yan , Wenhong Wang , Young Sun

We propose a new type of magnetoelectric memory device that stores magnetic easy-axis information or pseudo-magnetization, rather than a definite magnetization direction, in piezoelectric/ferromagnetic (PE/FM) heterostructures.…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-07-20 Tingting Shen , Orchi Hassan , Neil R. Dilley , Kerem Y. Camsari , Joerg Appenzeller

Magnetic flux quantization in superconductors allows the implementation of fast and energy-efficient digital superconducting circuits. However, the information representation in magnetic flux severely limits their functional density…