FRONTIERS IN
MEMRISTIVE MATERIALS
FOR NEUROMORPHIC
PROCESSING APPLICATIONS
PROCEEDINGS OF A WORKSHOP
Paul Timothy Beaton, Rapporteur
Condensed Matter and Materials Research Committee
Board on Physics and Astronomy
Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences
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PLANNING COMMITTEE ON FRONTIERS IN MEMRISTIVE MATERIALS FOR NEUROMORPHIC PROCESSING APPLICATIONS: A WORKSHOP
LESLIE MOMODA, HRL Laboratories, Chair
CHARLES AHN, Yale University
GIULIA GALLI, University of Chicago
TOM C. LUBENSKY, NAS,1 University of Pennsylvania
IVAN SCHULLER, University of California, San Diego
DMITRI STRUKOV, University of California, Santa Barbara
R. STANLEY WILLIAMS, Texas A&M University
THOMAS A. WITTEN, University of Chicago
Staff
CHRISTOPHER JONES, Program Officer
COLLEEN N. HARTMAN, Board Director (from April 2021)
JAMES LANCASTER, Board Director (until April 2021)
NEERAJ P. GORKHALY, Associate Program Officer
AMISHA JINANDRA, Associate Program Officer
LINDA WALKER, Program Coordinator
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CONDENSED MATTER AND MATERIALS RESEARCH COMMITTEE
SUSAN COPPERSMITH, NAS,1 University of Wisconsin, Madison, Chair
TOM WITTEN, University of Chicago, Vice Chair
CHARLES AHN, Yale University
RAYMUNDO ARROYAVE, Texas A&M University
KARIN DAHMEN, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
THOMAS EPPS, University of Delaware
GIULIA GALLI, University of Chicago
OLIVIA A. GRAEVE, University of California, San Diego
AHARON KAPITULNIK, NAS, Stanford University
ANTHONY KU, National Institute of Clean and Low-Carbon Energy
TOM C. LUBENSKY, NAS, University of Pennsylvania
LESLIE MOMODA, HRL Laboratories
PIERRE WILTZIUS, University of California, Santa Barbara
KAREN WINEY, University of Pennsylvania
STEVEN J. ZINKLE, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Staff
CHRISTOPHER JONES, Senior Program Officer
COLLEEN N. HARTMAN, Board Director (from April 2021)
JAMES LANCASTER, Board Director (until April 2021)
NEERAJ P. GORKHALY, Associate Program Officer
AMISHA JINANDRA, Associate Program Officer
LINDA WALKER, Program Coordinator
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BOARD ON PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY
ABRAHAM LOEB, Harvard University, Chair
ANDREW LANKFORD, University of California, Irvine, Vice Chair
MEIGAN ARONSON, University of British Columbia
WILLIAM BIALEK, NAS,1 Princeton University
JILL DAHLBURG, Naval Research Laboratory
SALLY DAWSON, Brookhaven National Laboratory
LOUIS DIMAURO, Ohio State University
WENDY FREEDMAN, NAS, University of Chicago
TIM HECKMAN, NAS, Johns Hopkins University
WENDELL HILL III, University of Maryland
ALAN HURD, Los Alamos National Laboratory
CHUNG-PEI MA, University of California, Berkeley
NERGIS MAVALVALA, NAS, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
SUNIL SINHA, University of California, San Diego
WILLIAM A. ZAJC, Columbia University
Staff
COLLEEN N. HARTMAN, Director (from April 2021)
JAMES LANCASTER, Director (until April 2021)
GREGORY MACK, Senior Program Officer
CHRISTOPHER JONES, Senior Program Officer
NEERAJ P. GORKHALY, Associate Program Officer
AMISHA JINANDRA, Associate Program Officer
LINDA WALKER, Program Coordinator
BETH DOLAN, Financial Associate
DONALD SHAPERO, Senior Scholar
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Contents
An Overview of Memristor Technologies
Neuromorphic Computing with Polymers
Device Requirements and Challenges of Mixed-Signal Neuromorphic Hardware
Device Architectures to Meet Neuromorphic Computing Challenges
Future of Energy-Efficient Computing Based on Memristive Elements
C Registered Workshop Participants
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