SYMPOSIUM 12 – Materials for the Computing Revolution

As AI and data volumes surge across the economy, the energy demand for computation imposes a defining constraint on technological progress. Conventional digital architectures are approaching fundamental limits in compute per watt, creating urgent demand for materials-grounded breakthroughs.

This symposium brings together the materials communities from across emerging computing paradigms: analog and in-memory computing, neuromorphic, photonic, probabilistic, stochastic, quantum-inspired architectures. Each domain exploits distinct materials physics — resistive switching, ionic transport, optical nonlinearity, spin torque, quantum tunneling, phase transitions, non-linear dynamics — that place precise and demanding requirements on composition, microstructure, and dynamical response. In many cases the property-performance relationships in candidate materials are under or unestablished, complicating targeted materials design.

The symposium emphasizes: translating next-generation computing requirements into the language of materials physics; identifying new or optimal materials for memory and computation with high retention, reliability, fast response or stochastic tunability; developing strategies to transition materials discoveries to scalable, manufacturable hardware.

Session Topics:

Resistive and phase-change materials for in-memory computing
Neuromorphic materials and spiking architectures
Photonic and optical computing materials
2D and Van der Waals materials for computing elements
Stochastic, probabilistic, and bio-inspired material responses
Superconducting and cryogenic computing materials
Heterogeneous integration, scalability, and manufacturability

Symposium Organizer(s):

Petro Maksymovych, Clemson University, USA
Timothy Brown, Oklahoma State University, USA
Karsten Beckmann, NY-Creates/SUNY Albany, USA
Aiping Chen, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA

Point(s) of Contact:

Petro Maksymovych; pmaksym@clemson.edu

Division Sponsor(s):

Basic Science Division
Electronics Division