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Driscoll group at IoP Memristor Conference

26 January 2024

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...

Driscoll group seminar with visiting Prof. Bilge Yildiz from MIT

27 November 2023

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...

Visit from Samsung

23 November 2023

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 presents at the Postdocs of Cambridge Society annual Research Showcase

1 November 2023

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 gives a popular science talk to the Trinity College Postdoc Society

10 October 2023

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...

FeminCam Conference Celebrating Women in Electronic Materials

27 September 2023

The FeminCam conference was held at Trinity College, a 1-day event to celebrate women leaders in the field of electronic materials, organised by the members of the Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy Device Materials Group (DMG), Prof. Driscoll, Prof. Kar-Narayan and Dr Di Martino. The event featured 10...

Markus and Judith publish invited review article on neuromorphic computing

14 September 2023

Markus and Judith were asked to contribute an invited review paper on neuromorphic computing in the Springer Nature journal Nano Convergence and this is now published and accessible open access here . The full title of the publication is " Multi-level resistive switching in hafnium-oxide-based devices for neuromorphic...

Science Podcast Dr Markus Hellenbrand

14 July 2023

Dr Markus Hellenbrand was invited to talk about our recent publication on resistive switching in the science podcast Quantum Photonics club . A lay explanation of the backgrounds and results lead to a lively discussion with the 30-40 attendants.

Driscoll group members at MANIC workshop, Invited talk Dr Markus Hellenbrand

29 June 2023

Several group members attended the final workshop of the Materials for Neuromorphic Computing EU project, and Dr Markus Hellenbrand gave an invited talk at the event. 53011032890_3994f5ee79_comp.jpg Photo by Michael Wilkinson .

Science Advances paper available open access

21 June 2023

Just one day after the good news about the postdoc prize, Dr Markus Hellenbrand's paper on interfacial resistive switching in hafnium oxide devices is now available online, open access: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adg1946