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