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We welcomed Stuart Parkin to the group for a talk, and for ongoing collaboration discussions. 

The Final CAM-IES Science meeting and dinner was held at the Maxwell Centre, followed by a dinner at Trinity College.

Judith was very happy to meet with Dr Kinam Kim, CEO of Samsung Electronics and his wife. We had an interesting discussion about future Memory technologies.

A massive thank you to Prof. Jordi Sort at Autonomous at University of Barcelona (UAB) for hosting PhD student Muireann de h-Óra this past month. Muireann visited UAB on a secondment as part of the BeMAGIC International Training Network to work on both magnetoionic testing of CoFe2O4 thin films and the fabrication of CoFe2O4 based magnetoelectric t…

Engineering is tackling the greatest challenge of our age - moving the world closer to Net Zero. At University of Cambridge, we develop memristive switches that can decrease energy consumption in IT up to 80%! We asked our lab what they like most about engineering:"I like figuring out how to make things. There's a satisfaction in getting something …

Markus gave a talk on the effects of Information and Communications Technology on climate change at the Cambridge Zero symposium on 28 October. Reflective discussions ensued and a follow-up talk is planned for early February 2023."The combined power consumption of data centres around the world is equivalent to 20 nuclear power plants and it is esti…

Dr Babak Bakhit has received the CAPE Acorn Blue Sky Award 2022. Babak is awarded for his project “An iontronic-based revolutionary architecture in advanced transparent oxide thin films for memory technology”. The award gives Cambridge´s early career researchers an opportunity to undertake pilot studies in new research areas.

The Annual Device Material Group (DMG) Meeting was held, bringing together the group leaders, Dr Giuliana di Martino, Prof. Judith Driscoll, Prof. Sohini Kar-Narayan and all the group members!

Judith had an interesting visit to Max Planck's Institute in Halle, Germany to Stuart Parkin’s lab. She had interesting memory and neuromorphic discussions and made plans for a training lecture to the group from Stuart, as part of a series of external lectures in this topic.

We welcome to the group Prof. Shinbum Lee from DGIST in Korea. Shinbuhm will be working on oxide thin films for neuromorphic computing. He will be a visiting fellow commoner at Trinity College from 1.1.23.

Congratulations to Mahmoud and Ji Soo for passing their first year transfer reports! And congratulations to Benedetta for passing her MRes with the NanoDTC and transitioning fully to the PhD in the Driscoll group.

Judith visit to the University of Liverpool (in the Anfield football stadium venue) to present an invited talk at the Leverhulme Research Centre for Functional Materials Design 2nd Biennial Symposium. She spoke on "Translating the Enormous Promise of Complex Oxides to Working Devices". 

Muireann, Matt, Benedetta, Adam and Debasis enjoyed the EPSRC sponsored CAM-iES meeting at Magdalene College, Cambridge. The meeting theme was on mixed ionic and electronic conducting materials, featuring a wide range of talks that showcased the interdisciplinarity of this theme. Prof. Lee delivered an invited talk entitled, “Hydrogen control of do…

Ming and Markus attended a very topical conference on Sustainability for Future Electronics in Liverpool, from the 14th to 16th of September. With many interesting discussions and possible collaborations, this was a great success. Both presented a poster on resistive switching in different materials for low-power neuromorphic computing. The event w…

Mahmoud and Judith enjoyed the 10th annual Winton Symposium in Henley-on-Thames. Mahmoud (Winton PhD scholar) delivered an excellent short talk on his work on resistive switching in IGZO.