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A new paper titled “Proposal For Neuromorphic Hardware Using Spin Devices” put out by the researchers at the Circuits Research Lab at Intel and Purdue University shows promise in simulations for modeling bipolar spin neurons utilizing memristive cross-bar neural network (NN) architectures as synapses: [...] Emergence of programmable conductive elements, like TiO2 memristor and phase [...]
in Papers of Interest (Intel Labs Neuromorphic Chip): Format: Full Paper Title: “Proposal For Neuromorphic Hardware Using Spin Devices” Authors: Mrigank Sharad, Georgios Panagopoulos, and Kaushik Roy all of (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University, US), Charles Augustine (Circuit Research Lab, Intel Labs at Intel Corporation, US) Source: arXiv.org > Disordered Systems and [...]
A couple new papers published from HP Labs and associated university partnerships titled “Switching location of a Bipolar Memristor, Chemical, Thermal and Structural Mapping” and “Molecular dynamics simulations of Oxide Memory Resistors” in next months IOP Science’s Nanotechnology journal detail how HP has continued to focus in on Titanium Oxide based strata. Of particular interest [...]
in Papers of Interest: Format: Journal Abstract Title: “Spin Hall Effect Induced by Resonant Scattering on Impurities in Metals” Authors: Albert Fert, Unité Mixte de Physique CNRS/Thales, Peter M. Levy, Department of Physics, New York University Source: American Physical Society, Physical Review Letters Publication Date: 15 April 2011 (c) Attribution: © 2011 American Physical Society [...]
With the recent influx of graphene research breakthroughs in attaching magnetic effects to graphene sheets, and MRAM associated material science advances showing more promise for nvram type magnetic and spin based memory, companies in the MRAM space like: Everspin Technologies (a spinoff from Freescale in 2008, pushing ST-MRAM and who hit 16mb stacks last year [...]
This years European Science Foundation Graphene Week 2011: Fundamental Science of Graphene and Applications of Graphene-Based Devices, being held this April 24 thru April 29, 2011 near Innsbruck, Austria, will include Andre Geim as Chair! ( A recent paper in Science on results of a team led by Geim has shown evidence of electron flow [...]