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Dr. Megan Hill, Mureann de h-Ora and Thomas Sun went to Fall MRS 2023 in Boston and all gave enlightening talks

We 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 promising for imp…

We were very pleased to host Dr. Jinseong Heo from Samsung to our group. Jinseong is the master of the inorganic lab of Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology. 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 t…

We are very happy to welcome Alex Yuan and Eric Zhu from Naxau, China. Naxau have excellent collaborations with UK companies and we were happy to show them our labs and discuss the challenges of coatings on energy devices.

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.

Judith and Ji Soo Kim were very haopp to visit Dr. Jose Silva at Univ Minho, Brage, Portugal, where Judith advises on Jose’s M=ERA Net Eu project. We also discussed progress and collaborations on Ferroelectric HfO2 and on our EU RTN proposal that we are preparing.

Our PhD student Benedetta features in the department's most recent grad school promotional video!

The group congratulates the Nobel prize winners in Chemistry 2023, Moungi G. Bawendi, Louis E. Brus and Alexei I. Ekimov. We are happy to have worked with Prof. Bawendi in the past on a joint paper: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/adma.201702176. 

On 10 Oct, 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 inspir…

Many of the group had a fun time at the Cambridge German beer festival! Thanks a lot

27th 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 DMG, Prof. Driscoll, Prof. Kar-Narayan and Dr Di Martino. The event featured 10 incredible talks by women PIs in Cambridge, which focused on their research as well as th…

Sept 25: We had a successful energy materials conference at IOM3. JD is Chair of the energy materials committee there. The other female committee members made it all possible.  The event focused on early career researchers. Dr. Matt Wells from the group gave a very interesting talk and Drs. Debasis Nayak presented an excellent poster and Venkat Dar…

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 computing"

We were very busy receiving/meeting several interesting visitors and collaborators this month, including Ray Karam (HTSI), Dr. Mike Osofsky (Towson (formerly ONR)), Dr. Christine McHugh  (engineering consultant), Prof. Mercouri Kanatzidas (Northwestern),  Drs. Leo and Julie Christodoulou (MMI-consultants), Prof. Keehon Kang (Seoul National Universi…

We are very happy to have Prof. Bilge Yildiz on sabbatical with us for 1 year. This is joint with Prof. Clare Grey’s group, in the Department of Chemistry.