Barbara participated in the MANA International Symposium 2021, held online and organised by the International Center for Materials and Nanoelectronics (MANA) and the International Center for Young Scientists (ICYS) at the National Institute for Material Science (NIMS) in Tsukuba, Japan.
Barbara’s work was commended among several young scientists in the field of advanced materials and forms part of her ongoing research into biomimetic electronic devices, in collaboration with TokitoLab at Yamagata University, Japan. In particular, electronic synapses are able to emulate temporal processing enabling also potential scalability and higher performance through 3D integration, while keeping the cost, power consumption and structure complexity significantly low.
The reduced complexity of such devices makes fabrication with solution-processing techniques such as inkjet printing facile and promising for its low waste and environmental friendliness. Barbara’s approach centres on the realisation of fully inkjet-printed metal-active-metal electronic synapses using a proprietary a-TiO2 nanoparticle suspension solution. Results show low power biomimetic properties of synaptic plasticity, presenting a favorable approach towards unconventional neuromorphic devices.
