On Effective Graphene Based Computing

With CMOS feature size heading towards atomic dimensions, unjustifiable static power, reliability, and economic implications are exacerbating, prompting for research on new materials, devices, and/or computation paradigms. Within this context, Graphene Nanoribbons (GNRs), owing to graphene's excellent electronic properties, may serve as basic...

Ultra-Compact, Entirely Graphene-based Nonlinear Leaky Integrate-and-Fire Spiking Neuron

Designing and implementing artificial neuromorphic systems, which can provide biocompatible interfacing, or the human brain akin ability to efficiently process information, is paramount to the understanding of the human brain complex functionality. Energy-efficient, low-area, and biocompatible artificial neurons are key ubiquitous components of...

A study of graphene nanoribbon-based gate performance robustness under temperature variations

As CMOS scaling is reaching its limits, high power density and leakage, low reliability, and increasing IC production costs are prompting for developing new materials, devices, architectures, and computation paradigms. Additionally, temperature variations have a significant impact on devices and circuits reliability and performance. Graphene...

Graphene Nanoribbon-based Synapses with Versatile Plasticity

Designing and implementing artificial systems that can be interfaced with the human brain or that can provide computational ability akin to brain's processing information efficient style is crucial for understanding human brain fundamental operating principles and to unleashing the full potential of brain-inspired computing. As basic neural...

Would Magnonic Circuits Outperform CMOS Counterparts?

In the early stages of a novel technology development, it is difficult to provide a comprehensive assessment of its potential capabilities and impact. Nevertheless, some preliminary estimates can be drawn and are certainly of great interest and in this paper we follow this line of reasoning within the framework of the Spin Wave (SW) based...