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In addition to several new students and visiting collaborators, two new postdocs have joined the Driscoll group to work on neuromorphic materials and devices!Dr Seb Dixon joins the group having spent the first few years of his postdoctoral work as a scientist in industry, working on metal oxide and 2D material crystal growth on silicon wafers. His …

Judith was pleased to attend and give an invited talk at the Innovate UK event on “Future Computing Technologies and Energy Efficient Computation: Neuromorphic Computing", in London (King’s College Institute of Health Engineering). The importance of this growing field was confirmed by the many speakers and government funders. It was a great opportu…

Markus had the privilege of serving as the designated UK expert on Neuromorphic Computing for the British Standards Institution at the International Electrotechnical Comission meeting in London. Work is ongoing to compile an international technical report on neuromorphic device measurements.

We are very happy to announce a new UK network grant on  "Neuromorphic Materials and Devices for Future AI Hardware”,  which we call Neumat. It  was awarded to the Driscoll group, as well as to Adnan Mehonic (UCL), Giuliana Di Martino (Cambridge), Alex Serb (Edinburgh). We call our network grant NeuMat.We have a number of players across the UK help…

Dr Hellenbrand and Prof. Driscoll were awarded translational funding from the Cambridge Enterprise Technology Investment Fund to take their technology, demonstrated in the lab, closer to commercialisation. The funding is for nearly two years and will help to de-risk the technology, which was demonstrated in the lab. At the end, the aim is to develo…

Dr Markus Hellenbrand attended the cohort 1 showcase event of the ChipStartUK programme, which supports tech start-ups on their journey all the way from before corporation to obtaining investments. He talked to some of the organisers, advisors, and investors, as well as to IMEC representative, to gather ideas and impressions of the UK tech start-up…

Thomas Sun and Dr Markus Hellenbrand from the Driscoll group pitched their technologies - spatial ALD Nanoprint Technologies and resistive switching - to a panel of industry partners organised by the MATcelerate initiative. Both technologies have the potential for a large impact on a more sustainable technological future!

Ji Soo Kim and Dr Markus Hellenbrand from the Driscoll group presented their research at the MRS 2024 Spring Meeting in Seattle. Markus was an invited speaker and featured as an MRS Communications Early Career Distinguished Presenter! They also met for breakfast with our long-standing collaborators Prof. Quanxi Jia from Buffalo and Prof. Robert Hoy…

Loughborough University are organising a prestigious conference to discuss the future of neuromorphic technology and artificial intelligence in the UK. Prof. Driscoll is invited as a speaker and will give a presentation on 26 Mar at the event.

We were happy to host a Neuromorphic workshop at Trinity College, Cambridge. Our invited speakers, Prof. Bilge Yidiz and Prof. Adnan Mehonic gave excellent talks on their latest research. Dr. Dip Das, a postdoc working with Adnan, and our group members also gave updates on their work.

Yuri, Benedetta, Judith, and Markus attended the Institute of Physics 'Memristor' conference in London, which was co-organised by our longstanding collaborator Prof. Adnan Mehonic from UCL. Markus presented some of his work on amorphous nanocomposite films for resistive switching, and Judith presented an overview of materials challenges for oxide m…

The Driscoll group heard a very interesting presentation by Prof. Bilge Yildiz, visiting from MIT, about controlling ion movement in solids for applications in neuromorphic computing. By moving ions into and out of the channel of a transistor structure, the channel conductivity can be varied gradually by several orders of magnitude, which is very p…

Jinseong, master of the inorganic lab of Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, visited the Driscoll group on 23 Nov. Samsung and the Driscoll group have been collaborating for two years, researching advanced materials for non-volatile memory and neuromorphic computing purposes. Max and Ji Soo presented their results.

Markus presented his work at the Research Showcase of the Postdocs of Cambridge Society. Over 50 psotdocs from various groups attended the events and the talk was followed by many interested questions about the future of artificial intelligence and sustainable computing.

Markus gave a popular science talk, "Materials and Devices for Neuromorphic Hardware", to an audience of postdocs from the Trinity College Postdoc Society with various scientific backgrounds. The event was part of the society series of regular academic talks, which Markus co-instated while he was president of the society. The talk inspired a lively…