Memristive Materials and Devices for Post-Moore Electronics by Assoc Prof Mario Lanza
Join us in the IAS STEM Graduate Colloquium by Assoc Prof Mario Lanza from the National University of Singapore (NUS).
About the talk
The semiconductor industry is undergoing rapid transformation to address transistor scaling limits and meet new demands in data storage and computation, particularly driven by artificial intelligence and the internet of things. To achieve this, new materials, devices, integration strategies, and system architectures are being developed and optimised. Among these, memristive devices and circuits offer promising approaches for compact, energy-efficient, and high-performance systems.
In the first part of this talk, I will examine the status and prospects of the memristor industry, focusing on commercially available products and high-readiness prototypes with potential market impact. The second part will cover our work on 2D-materials-based memristors, including progress on integrating multilayer hexagonal boron nitride with silicon microchips containing complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) circuits, also known as hybrid 2D/CMOS microchips. The third part will address key challenges of memristive hardware for artificial intelligence and introduce the Neuro-Synaptic Random Access Memory (NSRAM), a 2-transistor cell with adjustable neural and synaptic response, 100% yield, and ultra-low variability, thus representing a near-term solution for efficient artificial neural networks. And in the fourth and last part of this seminar, I will present you the Web Of Talents (https://weboftalents.com), a new social network that helps students and postdocs to find the position/job that they are looking for, and it also helps professors, universities, and companies to recruit the excellent students and postdocs.
About Our Speaker
Mario Lanza is an Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at the National University of Singapore since August 2024. He earned his PhD in Electronic Engineering in 2010 from the Autonomous University of Barcelona, receiving the extraordinary PhD prize. He held postdoctoral positions at Peking University (NSFC Fellow) and Stanford University (Marie Curie Fellow). In 2013, he joined Soochow University in China, becoming a Full Professor, and from 2020 to 2024, he was Associate Professor at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), recognized for his work in nanoelectronics. He has published over 250 articles in leading journals like Nature and Science, many of which are highly cited. He has given over 150 invited, keynote, and plenary talks and received prestigious awards, including IEEE Fellow. He serves on the Board of Governors of the IEEE Electron Devices Society and plays active roles in major conferences such as IEDM, IRPS, and IPFA. He is also a consultant for top semiconductor companies and publishers, and speaks five languages fluently: English, Chinese, German, Spanish, and Catalan.