Since the beginning of the academic year, two new members have joined the group: Dr. Yanxi Zhang and Ms. Imke Krauhausen. Welcome to both! For more details about their respective backgrounds and research interests, see the people section.
Together with Paschalis Gkoupidenis from the Max Planck institute in Mainz, we are organising a symposium at EMRS Spring Meeting in Strasbourg 2020, covering neuromorphic engineering and devices, all the way to bio-inspired sensing and bioelectronics. The symposium has a great line-up of confirmed speakers. For more details see: https://www.european-mrs.com/neuro-inspired-information-processing-novel-materials-concepts-neuromorphic-computing-local
Together with Francesca Santoro, Yoeri van de Burgt gave a lecture in Genova for the Festival of Science (Festival della Scienza). This festival is open to the public and topics vary from planets and astronomy to artificial intelligence and brain-machine interfacing, which was also the topic of their talk.
Our paper describing the mechanism behind dedoping PEDOT:PSS by Aliphatic Polyamines is now out in @JPhysChem. Great collaboration with @asalleo and Rene Janssen. Link.
Yoeri was installed as a new member of the Eindhoven Young Academy of Engineering on September 18 in the presence of the rector prof. Frank Baaijens. The membership is for 5 years during which challenges – both scientifically as well as in society – will be discussed.
Together with Paschalis Gkoupidenis from the Max Planck Institute in Mainz, Eveline van Doremaele and Yoeri van de Burgt wrote a highlight paper: Towards organic neuromorphic devices for adaptive sensing and novel computing paradigms in bioelectronics (link). The paper is part of the Emerging Investigators issue and was selected in Journal of Materials Chemistry’s HOT papers.
As one of the experts in the field of Neuromorphic Computing, Yoeri van de Burgt has joined the team of Associate Editors for “Frontiers in Neuroscience: Neuromorphic Engineering”.
Our latest work together with prof. Salleo (Stanford) and prof. Alivisatos (UC Berkeley) on ultra-bright quantum dots is now published in Science Magazine (link). In this work, we have focused on how efficiently quantum dots reemit the light they absorb. While previous attempts to figure out quantum dot efficiency hinted at high performance, we have developed a new measurement technique to confidently show they could even compete with, expensive, single crystal materials. The measurement is based on checking for excess Read more…
In this paper, the mechanisms for stability in ENODe devices are investigated. In this work the mechanisms leading to state loss and cycling instability in redox-gated neuromorphic devices are revealed: parasitic redox reactions and out-diffusion of reducing additives. The results of this study are used to design an encapsulation structure which shows an order of magnitude improvement in state retention and cycling stability.
I am very grateful to the European Research Council and its panel committee to have awarded me with a Starting Grant for 5 years to pursue research on: BIOMORPHIC: Brain-Inspired Organic Modular Lab-on-a-Chip for Cell Classification In this research we will develop a unique brain-inspired organic lab-on-a-chip in which microfluidics integrated with sensors, collecting characteristics of biological cells, to serve as input to a neuromorphic array. BIOMORPHIC will combine modular microfluidics and machine-learning to develop a novel platform for low-cost Read more…
