Theme 5 - Nanoarchitectures

Lead: Prof Richard Kiehl ( University of Minnesota)

Theme 5 examines circuit architectures that are best suited to exploiting new nanoscale systems based on two-dimensional cellular arrays that are predominantly locally connected and carry out highly parallel forms of information processing similar to those in the brain. The focus on local connection circumvents the interconnect bottleneck and avoids the drawback of low drive capability for nanoscale devices. The focus on bio-inspired information processing recognizes the fact that the massive parallelism in nanostructures must be exploited to perform a high-level information processing task while keeping the switching rate of individual elements low to limit power dissipation. Some projects include:

The Principal Investigators contributing to this theme include (click to view bio):

• Prof Richard Kiehl (UC Davis)
• Prof Konstantin Likharev (USB)
• Prof Frank Hoppensteadt (NYU)
• Prof Melanie Mitchell (Portland State U)
• Prof Andras Moritz (UMass)
• Prof Marc Riedel (U of Minnesota)
• Dr. Alexander Khitun (UCLA)