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MELON · Memristive and multiferroic materials for emergent logic units in nanoelectronics

Horizon 2020 — Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Duration
2020-04-01 → 2025-03-31
EU contribution
€1,380,000
Participants
7
Scheme
MSCA-RISE

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Results in brief

Memristive and multiferroic materials for emergent logic units in nanoelectronics

To make a machine think like a human we should overcome the tyranny of the deterministic binary logic, inherent to the contemporary electronic circuits. While the realization of this emergent approach has long been suggested as a multi-valued and neuromorphic architecture of the logic units, the problem is that we haven’t discovered a material system that could implement it. Right now, silicon-based transistors can operate as “on” and “off”, so the new materials would have to find to consistently maintain more states and emulate the plasticity and self-organization of neuronal connections. It’s against this background we develop the Consortium within the RISE action “MELON”, involving academic members from EU Member States, France, Netherlands, and Spain, from a partner country, Argentina, and the SME from the associated country, Ukraine, with the objective to develop the innovative materials platform for the realization of the emergent computing circuits. We target three focus areas: (i) to explore novel memristive oxide-based systems on silicon, with history-dependent conductivity, for emulating the neuronal connections in the brain, (ii) to use the nano-scale multiferroic materials, hosting the multistable topological states to realize the multi-valued logic, and (iii) to explore conducting 2D oxide interfaces as both novels 4-point memristive systems and interconnect elements for the computing circuits.

Data: CORDIS, © European Union

Project objective

To make a machine think like a human we should overcome the tyranny of the deterministic binary logic, inherent to the contemporary electronic circuits. While the realization of this emergent approach has long been suggested as a multi-valued and neuromorphic architecture of the logic units, the problem is that we haven’t discovered a material system that could implement it. Right now, silicon-based transistors can operate as “on” and “off”, so the new materials would have to find to consistently maintain more states and emulate the plasticity and self-organization of neuronal connections. It’s against this background we develop the Consortium within the RISE action “MELON”, involving academic members from EU Member States, France, Netherlands, and Spain, from the partner country, Argentina, and the SME from the associated country, Ukraine, with the objective to develop the innovative materials platform for the realization of the emergent computing circuits. We target three focus areas: (i) to explore novel memristive oxide-based systems on silicon, with history-dependent conductivity, for emulating the neuronal connections in the brain, (ii) to use the nano-scale multiferroic materials, hosting the multistable topological states to realize the multi-valued logic, and (iii) to explore conducting 2D oxide interfaces as both novels 4-points memristive systems and interconnect elements for the computing circuits. The Consortium combines the complementary expertise spanned from fundamental to applied chemistry and physics and from material science to (industrial or modern) nanotechnologies development with the solid interdisciplinary and intersectoral potential for skills transfer, staff exchange, and young researchers' training.

Original text from CORDIS.

Participants

  • UNIVERSITE DE PICARDIE JULES VERNE · AmiensCoordinatorFrance
  • CONSEJO NACIONAL DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTIFICAS Y TECNICAS (CONICET) · Buenos AiresArgentina
  • NANOTECHCENTER LLC · KievUkraine
  • NANOTUL DRUZBA ZA SINTEZO IN KOMERCIALIZACIJO MATERIALOV DOO · LjubljanaSlovenia
  • RIJKSUNIVERSITEIT GRONINGEN · GroningenNetherlands
  • SOUTHERN FEDERAL UNIVERSITY · ROSTOV ON DONCity levelRussia
  • UNIVERSIDAD DE ZARAGOZA · ZaragozaSpain

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