Eric Fullerton
University of California-San Diego, CA·Materials Science
Modern data centers and computers use enormous amounts of energy, and today's memory and processor designs are reaching their limits. Quantum materials have unusual electronic and magnetic properties that could help build new memories that keep data without power.
- Fields
Materials Science
Engineering
Physics
- Topics
quantum materials
nanoelectronics
non-volatile memory
- Grants
- 1 known grant, last ended Oct 2026
What they work on
- Fabricate new quantum materials and characterize their properties with advanced techniques to understand and control their behavior for non-volatile memory.
- Integrate quantum materials into prototype memory devices and test their performance as candidates for energy-efficient, ultrafast and ultra-small memory.
- Use device results as input to theory and modeling of memory-based, brain-inspired mem-computing networks and architectures.
- Train nine UCSD and NYU undergraduate and graduate students per year through eight-week research internships at French partner laboratories.
More about the research
They could also enable 'brain-inspired' computers that are faster, smaller and far more energy-efficient. This project trains U.S. students in that research through international internships.
Why it matters
New quantum-material memories could lower the energy cost of computing and data storage for a data-driven society. They could also help create faster, smaller brain-inspired computers. The project also helps build a skilled, internationally experienced workforce in nanotechnology, including women and minority students.
Known grants
From NIH and NSF research grants. Labs often have other funding we can't see.
Closest labs
Raisul Islam
Purdue University, IN·Engineering
Fabricate and characterize the Diffusive Ferroelectric Field-Effect Transistor (DFeFET), combining engineered drain contact metals with amorphous oxide semiconductor channels in a ferroelectric-gated transistor to obtain controllable volatile hysteresis in drain current-voltage curves.
Jonathan Bird
University at Buffalo, NY·Engineering
Build non-volatile transistors that combine a voltage-switched magneto-electric gate with a channel made of transition-metal dichalcogenides, two-dimensional semiconductors only atoms thick, and show they retain their programmed state without power.
Shaahin Angizi
New Jersey Institute of Technology, NJ·Engineering·Early-career
Design reconfigurable circuits and architectures for a multi-modal in-sensor accelerator that moves AI computation onto sensor nodes as efficiently as possible.
The school
University of California-San Diego: 84 labs on PI Pages, $1.9B a year on research, 637 research doctorates a year.
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