#IntersectWorkshop

This workshop aims at connecting academic research, R&D labs, and industry on the theme of synaptic electronics and neuromorphic computing, with a specific focus on the role of materials on the efficiency and design of next-generation devices.

The workshop will bring together experimental and theoretical experts in the field of electrical engineering, physics, chemistry, and materials science to discuss the main open problems and solutions for the development of volatile and non-volatile memories and memristors. Particular attention will be dedicated to materials-to-device modelling and to innovative interoperable automatic workflows for industry-driven applications, in close connection with the experimental side.

The workshop, organized within the activity of the EU project INTERSECT, is free and open to scientific oral and poster contributions.

The INTERSECT workshop will take place in a hybrid format. Attendance in person in Barcelona, Spain, is welcome. More information about the venue of the conference can be found here. If you are not able to attend in person, an online version of the workshop will be also available.

The scientific program will be organized in 3 sessions covering the topics:

New materials for synaptic electronics

New materials for synaptic electronics

PCM, ReRAM, ECRAM and ferroelectric memristors

PCM, ReRAM, ECRAM and ferroelectric memristors

Role of disorder, defects, and dopants in memristors

Role of disorder, defects, and dopants in memristors

Interoperability, Ontology & Workflows in materials modelling

Interoperability, Ontology & Workflows in materials modelling

SPEAKERS

Daniele Ielmini
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Daniele Ielmini

Politecnico di Milano

David Gao
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David Gao

Nanolayers

Derek Stewart
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Derek Stewart

HGST, a Western Digital company

Elisa Vianello
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Elisa Vianello

CEA-Leti

Emanuele Ghedini
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Emanuele Ghedini

University of Bologna

Jesper Friis
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Jesper Friis

SINTEF

Josep Fontcuberta
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Josep Fontcuberta

ICMAB-CSIC

Marco Bernasconi
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Marco Bernasconi

University of Milano-Bicocca

Mathieu Luisier
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Mathieu Luisier

ETH Zürich

Stefan Slesazeck
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Stefan Slesazeck

NaMLab gGmbH

Stefano Brivio
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Stefano Brivio

CNR Institute for Microelectronics and Microsystems

Sven Beyer
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Sven Beyer

GLOBALFOUNDRIES

PROGRAM

Some of the event talks were recorded and available here:

Welcome and Opening

Welcome and Opening

30min

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Sven Beyer (Global Foundries Inc.)The FeFET – learning to handle this new powerful device available in 2x CMOS platforms

The FeFET - learning to handle this new powerful device available in 2x CMOS platforms

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40min

Online

Sven Beyer

Sven Beyer received his masters and Ph.D in Physics from the University of Hamburg, Germany. He started his career with Infineon as a manufacturing engineer in the etch department in 2003. He joined the integration department of AMD in 2005. He has spent a year in the ASTA alliance 2007 working on the 45nm node […]

Stefan Slesazeck (NaMLab gGmbH)Ferroelectric tunneling junctions for beyond vonNeumann computing

Ferroelectric tunneling junctions for beyond vonNeumann computing

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40min

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Stefan Slesazeck

Stefan Slesazeck received the Ph.D. degree in microelectronics from the Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany, in 2004. He joined Qimonda Dresden, as a Device Engineer, focused on the pre-development of 3D DRAM access devices and concept evaluation for 1T–DRAM. In 2009, he joined NaMLab gGmbH. As a Senior Scientist, he is responsible for device and […]

Josep Fontcuberta (Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona)Electroresistance in epitaxial HZO films

Electroresistance in epitaxial HZO films

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40min

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Josep Fontcuberta

I got my degree (1977) and the PhD on Physics (1982) at the Universitat de Barcelona (UB) After stages at the Laboratory of Crystallography (CNRS) in Grenoble and at the Inorganic Chemistry Lab. of Oxford University, working in the J. C. Joubert and J. B. Goodenough’s groups, respectively, I returned back to UB, teaching Crystallography […]

coffee break*

*Room rental and coffee breaks are paid by ICN2 as co-organizer of the workshop

20min

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Johannes Ocker (Ferroelectric Memory GmbH)Interplay between polarization switching and charge trapping in ferroelectric field-effect transistors

Interplay between polarization switching and charge trapping in ferroelectric field-effect transistors

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40min

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Johannes Ocker

Dr. Johannes Ocker (PI) received a diploma degree in applied natural sciences from Freiberg University of Technology in 2012. In 2013, he joined NaMLab gGmbH working on electrical characterization and modeling of SONOS charge trapping devices, High-k Metal Gate Transistor Reliability and Ferroelectric Field Effect Transistors. Since 2016 he joined FMC to develop ferroelectric memory […]

Sergiu Clima (IMEC)OTS material electrical parameter mapping from theoretical electronic structure
Atomistic mechanisms for polarization switching and wakeup in HFOX-based Ferroelectrics

OTS material electrical parameter mapping from theoretical electronic structure Atomistic mechanisms for polarization switching and wakeup in HFOX-based Ferroelectrics

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40min

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Sergiu Clima

Jesper Friis (SINTEF)Using EMMO to represent properties ontologically

Using EMMO to represent properties ontologically
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40min

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Jesper Friis

Dr. Jesper Friis is a senior scientist at SINTEF in the group of Materials Physics in Trondheim, Norway, with an associate position at Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). An important part of his research has been on modelling of metallic alloys and silicon solar cells from the electronic to microstructure scale. The need […]

https://www.sintef.no/en/all-employees/employee/2389/

Marnik Bercx and Flaviano José dos Santos (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)Generating a fair crystal-structure database with the AiiDA informatics platform

Generating a fair crystal-structure database with the AiiDA informatics platform

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40min

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Flaviano José dos Santos
Marnik-Bercx

Matthias Büschelberger (Fraunhofer Institute for Mechanics of Materials IWM)SimPhoNy for ontology-based material exploration

SimPhoNy for ontology-based material exploration

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40min

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Matthias Büschelberger

Matthias Büschelberger (MSc) graduated in applied natural sciences at the University of Freiburg (Germany) in 2020 and dedicates himself to ontology-related Python-development and automatized material modelling as a scientific assistent at Fraunhofer IWM (Germany) ever since. With a strong focus on enduser-applicable products, he conventionally engages himself for bilateral communication between the research fields of material science […]

Coffee break*

*Room rental and coffee breaks are paid by ICN2 as co-organizer of the workshop

20min

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Emanuele Ghedini (University of Bologna)Ontologies as a multidisciplinary approach towards data and software interoperability in applied sciences

Ontologies as a multidisciplinary approach towards data and software interoperability in applied sciences

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40min

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Emanuele Ghedini

Associate Professor at the University of Bologna since 2014, his research fields includes plasma transport theory and the development of physical mathematical models for industrial applications of plasmas. His main research interests are in the calculation of transport properties of plasma mixtures, modelling of plasma sources devices, multi-scale modelling nanomaterial synthesis and development of formal […]

https://www.unibo.it/sitoweb/emanuele.ghedini/en

INTERSECT teamIM2D demonstrator

IM2D demonstrator

40min

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Lunch

90min

Daniele Ielmini (Politecnico Milano)Recent progresses of in-memory computing: materials, devices and architectures

Recent progresses of in-memory computing: materials, devices and architectures

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40min

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Daniele Ielmini

Daniele Ielmini received the Laurea (cum laude) and Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering from Politecnico di Milano in 1995 e 2000, respectively. He held visiting positions at Stanford University (2006) and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2010). His research interests include the modeling and characterization of non-volatile memories, such as the phase change memory (PCM), […]

https://www.deib.polimi.it/eng/people/details/230052

Elisa Vianello (CEA-Leti)Linking Hardware and Software for frugal AI solutions

Linking Hardware and Software for frugal AI solutions

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40min

Online

Elisa Vianello

My current research interests concern the development of new technologies for bio-inspired neuromorphic computing, with special focus on resistive switching memory devices (RRAM) and phase change memory (PCM).

Mathieu Luisier (Integrated Systems Laboratory, ETH Zurich)Ab initio Simulations of ReRAMS: from Atoms to “Current vs. Voltage” Characteristics

Ab initio Simulations of ReRAMS: from Atoms to “Current vs. Voltage” Characteristics

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40min

Online

Mathieu Luisier

Since 2016 Mathieu Luisier is Associate Professor of Computational Nanoelectronics at ETH Zurich, Switzerland. He graduated in electrical engineering in 2003 and received his Ph.D. in 2007, both from ETH Zurich. After a one-​year post-​doc at the same institution, he joined in 2008 the Network for Computational Nanotechnology at Purdue University, USA, as a research […]

https://ee.ethz.ch/the-department/people-a-z/person-detail.ODA5MjM=.TGlzdC8zMjc5LC0xNjUwNTg5ODIw.html

Coffee break*

*Room rental and coffee breaks are paid by ICN2 as co-organizer of the workshop

20min

Casa de la Convalescencia

Derek Stewart (Western Digital)Combining First Principles Simulations, Topological Constraint Theory, and Experiments to Optimize OTS Chalcogenide Alloys

Combining First Principles Simulations, Topological Constraint Theory, and Experiments to Optimize OTS Chalcogenide Alloys

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40min

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Derek Stewart

My research combines density functional theory and transport approaches to understand thermal, electronic, and spin transport in materials and nanostructures relevant for non-volatile memory and energy applications. Specialties: atomistic simulation, first principle thermal and electronic transport in nanostructures, magnetic systems, thermoelectric materials, and non-volatile memory materials. density functional approaches (LMTO, KKR, Quantum Espresso, VASP,ABINIT), scientific […]

Stefano Brivio (CNR Institute for Microelectronics and Microsystems)Memristive device optimization towards spiking neuromorphic systems

Memristive device optimization towards spiking neuromorphic systems

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40min

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Stefano Brivio

SB is currently staff researcher of CNR – IMM in the Unit of Agrate Brianza. In 2009, SB got his PhD in Physics in Politecnico di Milano with a thesis about the magnetoelectric coupling at the interface between metals, ferroelectric, ferromagnetic materials. He spent 1 year in Politecnico di Milano as a postdoc and moved […]

Poster session

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50min

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Social dinner

Social dinner

Marco Bernasconi (Department of Materials Science, University of Milano-Bicocca)Atomistic simulation of phase change materials for non-volatile memories

Atomistic simulation of phase change materials for non-volatile memories
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40min

Online

Marco Bernasconi

Marco Bernasconi is full professor of Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics at the University of Milano-Bicocca. His research activity is dedicated to theoretical condensed matter physics, and in particular to electronic structure calculations and atomistic simulations of materials for energy and for applications in microelectronics and photonics. He published over 160 articles on international journals with peer-review that received over 6000 citations with H-index=41 (ISI-Web of Knowledge, June 2020).

https://en.unimib.it/marco-bernasconi

Andrea Padovani (Applied Materials Italia)A Multiscale Approach to Identify Traps Responsible for Subthreshold Conduction and Threshold Switching in OTS Materials

A Multiscale Approach to Identify Traps Responsible for Subthreshold Conduction and Threshold Switching in OTS Materials

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40min

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Andrea Padovani

Dr. Andrea Padovani, Ph.D. (PI, COO). He founded MDLab s.r.l., together with Luca Larcher and Luca Vandelli. He is a full-time employee of the company where he covers the role of COO. He received the Ph.D. from the University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy, in 2009, with a thesis entitled “Modelling and Reliability of Innovative Flash […]

Francesco Tavanti (CNR Institute Nanoscience)Going deeper on the structural and electronical properties of amorphous GexSe1-x: a microscopic investigation

Going deeper on the structural and electronical properties of amorphous GexSe1-x: a microscopic investigation

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40min

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Francesco Tavanti

My research is focused on the determination and characterization of the short, medium and long range order structures and physical properties of chalcogenides using computational simulations, such as molecular dynamics, in order to model devices for synaptic electronics and neuromorphic computing, as part of the European project INTERSECT. Moreover, I worked on the interactions between […]

http://www.nano.cnr.it/?mod=peo&id=736

Coffee break*

*Room rental and coffee breaks are paid by ICN2 as co-organizer of the workshop

20min

Casa de la Convalescencia

David Gao (Nanolayers Research Computing LTD)Ab initio Simulations of ReRAMS: from Atoms to “Current vs. Voltage” Characteristics

Ab initio Simulations of ReRAMS: from Atoms to "Current vs. Voltage" Characteristics

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40min

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David Gao

David Gao is the founder and director of Nanolayers Research Computing, and a recognised authority in the fields of materials design and machine learning development. In 2014, David earned his doctorate in Condensed Matter and Materials Physics from UCL and has since continued to lecture there as a visiting research fellow in physics and astronomy. […]

http://nanolayers.com/index.php#Team

Nakib Haider Protik (ICN2)ELPHBOLT – A free software for coupled electron-phonon Boltzmann transport

ELPHBOLT - A free software for coupled electron-phonon Boltzmann transport

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40min

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Nakib Haider Protik
https://icn2.cat/en/staff-directory?member=1353

Closing

Closing

50min

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Scientific Committee

Arrigo Calzolari – INTERSECT Project Coordinator, CNR-Nano (IT)
Nicola Marzari – INTERSECT Principal Investigator, EPFL (CH)
Andrea Padovani – INTERSECT Principal Investigator, Applied Materials Italia s.r.l. (IT)
Pablo Ordejón – INTERSECT Principal Investigator, ICN2 (ES)
Matthias Büschelberger – INTERSECT Principal Investigator, Fraunhofer IWM (DE)
Ben Kaczer – INTERSECT Principal Investigator, Imec (BE)
Johannes Ocker – INTERSECT Principal Investigator, Ferroelectric Memory Company GmbH (DE)

Organizing Committee

Arrigo Calzolari – INTERSECT Project Coordinator, CNR-Nano (IT)
Pablo Ordejón – INTERSECT Principal Investigator, ICN2 (ES)
Luisa Neri – INTERSECT Project Manager, CNR-Nano (IT)
Mara Di Berardo – INTERSECT Communication, CNR-Nano (IT)
Àlex Argemí – Marketing & Communication Manager, ICN2 (ES)
Dámaso Torres – Graphic designer & Webmaster, ICN2 (ES)
Ana de la Osa – Events and Outreach Coordinator, ICN2 (ES)
Maria Eugenia Herrera – Competitive Funding Officer, ICN2 (ES)

ABSTRACTS

POSTERS

Arsalan Akhtar (ICN2)

AiiDA Siesta Barrier: A workflow for high-throughput approach to diffusion in crystals

Luca Bursi (CNR-NANO-S3)

Ab initio characterization of defect states in materials for next-generation technology

Roberta Farris (ICN2)

Lattice thermal conductivity of transition metal dichalcogenides

Linda-Sheila Medondjio (ICN2)

A-GeSe for selector materials: model preparation from first-principles

Amine Slassi (CNR-NANO-S3)

Theoretical characterization of the Schottky/Ohmic contact between TiN-substate and amorphous materials

VENUE

Casa Convalescència

The Workshop will be held in an outstanding building of modernist
architecture in downtown Barcelona

 

www.uab-casaconvalescencia.org

Casa Convalescència
Sant Antoni Mª Claret, 171
08041 Barcelona, Spain

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CONTACT

Contact workshop@intersect-project.eu for more information

PARTNERS

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