Reconfigurable Electronic Materials Inspired by Nonlinear Neuron Dynamics

People

Jeff Blackburn

NREL

Jeffrey.Blackburn@nrel.gov

Blackburn is an NREL senior scientist, manager of the Materials Physics group, and a Distinguished Member of the Research Staff. He has led Thrusts for several multi-institution centers, including NREL’s BES Solar Photochemistry Core Program, the CHOISE EFRC ‘Center for Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Semiconductors for Energy,’ and NREL’s EERE Hydrogen Sorption Center of Excellence.

Tim Brown

tbrown2@sandia.gov

Dr. Timothy D. Brown has an interdisciplinary background in materials and electronic devices, which he uses to characterize, model, and benchmark brain-inspired devices built from nonlinear electrothermal materials. His work focuses on the translation and exploitation of nonlinear dynamical principles to design neuromorphic components like artificial axons and neurons. As of February, he will be joining Oklahoma State University as an assistant professor in Electrical Engineering.

Kyle Burns

burnsk8@tamu.edu

Kyle is a physical inorganic chemist interested in the electrochemical production of hydrogen using bioinspired molecular catalysts. Through use of physical and electroanalytical methods to study the mechanism of the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER), and its inhibition by small molecules such as O2, Kyle hopes to tune the stability and tolerance of these molecular catalysts.

Sarbajeet Chakraborty

sarbajeet1729@tamu.edu

Sarbajeet received his PhD in Chemistry from Texas A&M University, USA, and his M.Sc. Chemistry from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay, India. His areas of research include the underpinning chemical mechanisms for adjusting the atomic and electronic structure of intercalated metastable polymorphs of V2O5 to design advanced materials for battery cathodes and electrodes for neuromorphic computing. He is particularly interested in dynamic transformations and ion diffusion in correlated systems, with an emphasis on topochemical single-crystal to single-crystal transformations and X-ray diffraction studies.

Publications: Google Scholar

ORCID: 0000-0002-2758-2069

Byoung Ki Choi

bkchoi@lbl.gov

Byoung Ki Choi is a researcher at the Advanced Light Source (ALS) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), specializing in film synthesis using molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) and pulsed laser deposition (PLD), as well as synchrotron-based angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES). His work focuses on strongly correlated systems, which exhibit phase transitions, charge density waves, topologically non-trivial properties, and many-body interactions. He studies these fundamental physical properties to advance the  understanding of materials for neuromorphic devices.

Jenny Chong

jenchong@tamu.edu

Jenny graduated from the University of Michigan with a bachelor’s in Materials Science & Engineering in 2023. Currently, she is a 2nd year master’s student in Prof. Shamberger’s group at Texas A&M University. Her research focuses on electro-thermal characterization and compact model simulations.