The US Air Force has funded research to enable memristors to be integrated into CMOS (complementary metal-oxide semiconductor) devices. From the news item on Nanowerk,
Dr. Wei Wang, CNSE [College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering] Assistant Professor and Senior Research Scientist of Nanoscale Engineering, and Dr. Nathaniel Cady, CNSE Assistant Professor of Nanobioscience, received $460,000 in funding from the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (“AFRL”) to enable integration of CMOS devices with memristors – including the development of novel prototypes – to support a new computing paradigm. Early research shows significant promise for the development of smaller nanoelectronic computer architectures that generate new and efficient ways to perform computational tasks while consuming less power.
The work is being performed at the University of Albany where the CNSE resides. In total, they received over $2M in US federal funding for various nanotechnology research projects.
After the discussion about memristors (see below) a few months back, I’m tickled to see this development.
Articles listed with the most recent article first:
Measuring professional and national scientific achievements; Canadian science policy conferences
Memristors and nuances in a classification tug-of-war; NRC of Canada insights; rapping scientists
Interview about memristors with Forrest H Bennett III
More on memristors and a little bit on food packaging and nano
Canada’s nano article numbers (part 2) plus memristor and L’Oreal updates
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Since you have such an interest in the “memristor” you might be interested in my presentation from ISCAS 2010 (see link) explaining why various aspects of the memristor are actually mythical constructs allowing HP to take credit for the work of others.
http://www.slideshare.net/blaisemouttet/mythical-memristor
Hi Blaise! Thank you for the link to your slide show. I wish I better understood the mathematics of it all but the provision of citations dating back some 50 years is eye opening in itself. I find the process for how ideas are developed, who appropriates them, and who gets credit quite interesting and can be related to Rainer Becker’s work where he investigates how ideas become knowledge. I’ll definitely have to visit the slide show a few more times to see if I can get a better handle on the concepts in your presentation. Thanks for dropping by. Cheers, Maryse