Work in CONCEPT
The CogniGron/UG partner will develop epitaxial oxides, both as conducting channels and electrodes and for ferroelectric memories and memristors. Some of the materials (channels and electrodes) will be delivered to other partners (for the ALD deposition of ferroelectrics); while the epitaxial (PLD-grown) ferroelectrics will be used to benchmark the properties of the ALD-grown materials, CogniGron/UG will also perform ferroelectric and memristive characterisation of the samples produced by ALD.
Institution Information
The University of Groningen (UG) is an internationally oriented university with a rich academic tradition. Since its establishment in 1614, the UG has brought forward striving academics, like the first female student, the first Dutch astronaut and two Nobel prize winners. While rooted in the North of the Netherlands, the UG hosts students and staff from 120 different nationalities, with 30% of the total 37,000 students being international.
Within the UG, the researchers involved in CONCEPT, Dr. Martin Sarott, Prof. Dr. Beatriz Noheda and Dr. Horatio Cox belong to the Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials and the Groningen Cognitive Systems and Materials Center (CogniGron). CogniGron is a multidisciplinary research center created in 2018 to address the challenge of bringing novel functional materials into the design of the new generation of cognitive computers: computers that can process information in a super-efficient way, inspired by how the human brain works, to drastically reduce the energy consumption and carbon footprint of AI. CogniGron hosts researchers from materials science, physics, chemistry, mathematics, computer science and AI with a common mission: to find a new blueprint for future-proof computing.
