We’re delighted to announce a brand new themed assortment on bioinspired synthetic synapses and neurons based mostly on memristors, to be printed in Supplies Advances, a gold open entry journal from the Royal Society of Chemistry.
Visitor Edited by Niloufar Raeis-Hosseini, Ruomeng Huang, and Sujaya Kumar Vishwanath.
Mind-inspired synthetic synapses compute past the bottlenecks of von Neumann architectures by adapting extremely sustainable info processing. Fabrication of synthetic synapses in a bodily machine with the performance of the organic neural community is a gorgeous analysis space. Complementary metallic oxide semiconductor (CMOS) analog circuits emulate the synaptic efficiency of hardware-based neural networks. Because the {hardware} implementation of neuromorphic computation techniques based mostly on CMOS consumes way more vitality than a pure system, quite a few gadgets have been studied to understand an efficient neuromorphic computing system. Among the many proposed gadgets, memristors have emerged as essentially the most environment friendly candidates to emulate organic synapses with excessive studying velocity.
Memristors are two-terminal nanoelectronic gadgets with low energy consumption, sustainable scaling, cost-effectiveness, and superior computing efficacy. They course of info and compromise numerous elementary operations that surpass usually built-in circuit expertise. The temporal switching recommends that memristors are able to appearing as a bodily system that imitates the synaptic reminiscence perform extra exactly than the CMOS system.
This themed assortment goals to spotlight the latest developments, alternatives, and challenges in memristors and their functions in neuromorphic gadgets. We’ll define the latest advances in neuromorphic nanodevices based mostly on memristors by specializing in their fabrication and characterization strategies. We’ll emphasize rising bioinspired memristive gadgets and their improved efficiency by machine construction and utilized pulses engineering. We will even current outlooks of nanoelectronic gadgets and nanomaterials resembling 2D supplies, hybrid perovskites, and pure polymers.
We welcome contributions on memristors and synthetic synapses within the type of analysis articles, communications, and critiques within the following classes.
Novel nanomanufacturing and processing strategies of memristors:
- Fabrication and characterization of memristors, memtransistors, and memcapacitors
- Novel top-down and bottom-up approaches for nanofabrication of memristors
- Specified electrical and structural characterization methods
- Novel approaches to understand versatile or inflexible digital synapses
- Novel nanomaterials and machine buildings to extend memristive machine reliability and efficiency
Novel Memristive Supplies:
- 2D supplies resembling graphene, phosphorene, and transition metallic dichalcogenides
- Renewable supplies, together with biodegradables and biocompatible supplies
- Natural and bio-electronic supplies
- Heterogenous buildings with organic-inorganic hybrid supplies
- Versatile memristive supplies
Rising memristive gadgets and architectures:
- Biomemristors
- Optoelectronic memristors
- Ferroelectric memristive techniques
- Spintronic memristors
- Assimilation of nanomaterials in neuromorphic computing techniques based mostly on memristors
Memristive gadgets enabled neuromorphic computing functions:
- Synthetic synapses and neurons
- Synthetic synapses by renewable supplies
- Photonic and optoelectronic synapses
- Synthetic neural networks
- Convolutional neural networks
- Recurrent neural networks resembling reservoir computing
- Logic-in-memory system
- Neuromorphic and bio-inspired circuits and techniques
- Clarification of operational precept of synthetic synapses through modeling
Key phrases: memristor, nanoelectronics, neuromorphic computing, synthetic synapse, brain-inspired nanodevice
Submit earlier than 28 February 2023
All submitted papers will undergo the usual peer evaluation means of Supplies Advances and will meet the journal’s normal necessities in addition to match into the final scope of supplies science.
Manuscripts could be submitted right here https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ma
Please add a “notice to the editor” within the submission type whenever you submit your manuscript to say that this can be a submission for the themed assortment. The Editorial Workplace and Visitor Editors reserve the precise to test suitability of submissions in relation to the scope of the gathering and inclusion of accepted articles within the assortment isn’t assured. Accepted manuscripts will probably be added to the gathering as quickly as they’re on-line, and they are going to be printed in an everyday challenge of Supplies Advances.
