Join us to our workshop within the FisMat 2025 conference in Venice, Italy, 7-8 July, 2025!
- Deadline for abstract submission: 31st of March, 2025.
- Abstract submission here.
Workshop on heat management for memristors and novel computing paradigms
Alexandros Sarantopoulos [Forschungszentrum Jülich], Riccardo Rurali [ICMAB ], Francisco Rivadulla [University of Santiago de Compostela], Nini Pryds [DTU]
The evolution of electronic devices and computational architecture demands innovative technologies and approaches, as traditional CMOS technology faces significant challenges and bottlenecks. Over the past decade, research into novel computing paradigms—such as neuromorphic computing, in-memory processing, and reservoir computing—has made remarkable progress. These approaches address critical issues, including device scaling, energy efficiency, and data movement; however, numerous challenges remain unresolved.
A persistent concern in electronics is heat production and elevated device temperatures, often viewed as detrimental due to their contribution to device degradation and increased energy consumption, which undermines device reliability. Yet, thermal management is a crucial aspect of future technologies, with the potential to transform heat into an advantage instead of a drawback.
Particularly in oxide materials, significant opportunities exist to modify thermal properties and tailor them to meet specific device requirements. Oxides have been explored as thermoelectric materials, capable of harvesting waste heat and converting it into electricity, as well as thermal switches that enable directional and tunable heat propagation.Beyond these applications, heat has the potential to be used as a computational element [1], as a means of acceleration of filamentary memristive devices [2], or as a key element for future neuromorphic computing applications [3].
This workshop aims to bring together researchers exploring innovative concepts in heat and thermal management for electronics. It will focus on exploring thermal phenomena to overcome current technological bottlenecks, enabling new pathways for low-energy, faster, and more reliable device operation. By fostering discussion and collaboration, this workshop seeks to inspire groundbreaking ideas in computational design and pave the way for energy-efficient, thermally optimized electronic architectures.
[1]: Nataf, G.F., Volz, S., Ordonez-Miranda, J. et al. Using oxides to compute with heat. Nat Rev Mater 9, 530–531 (2024)
[2]: A. Sarantopoulos, K. Lange, F. Rivadulla, S. Menzel, R. Dittmann, Resistive Switching Acceleration Induced by Thermal Confinement. Adv. Electron. Mater. 2024, 2400555.
[3]: Daniel Schön and Stephan Menzel, Spatio-Temporal Correlations in Memristive Crossbar Arrays due to Thermal Effects Adv. Funct. Mater. 2023, 33, 2213943
Dr. Alexandros Sarantopoulos
Postdoctoral researcher
- Peter Grünberg Institute (PGI)
- Electronic Materials (PGI-7)
Room 48a