Memristive Materials for Neuromorphic Electronics (MemWerk)

The digital revolution and the increasingly widespread use of artificial intelligence are changing our society and our technologies in an unprecedented way - a development with ever higher energy requirements and far-reaching consequences for our climate. This calls for innovative technologies that respond adequately to the new demands. In this context, neuromorphic electronics are a promising approach in which biological learning and memory processes are replicated electronically. The central building blocks of these systems are memristive materials that imitate biological learning processes by means of a memory function. The aim of the MemWerk project is to tailor these materials for neuromorphic electronics. The planned work for this includes a fundamental synthesis and analysis of the materials, their transfer into electronic components, the design of innovative neural network structures and a mapping system that directly relates the material properties and their performance and technology parameters to performance characteristics of neuromorphic systems.