PhD in non-volatile dual-mode optical memory for unconventional computing

Job Description

The exponential growth of computing capabilities has transformed nearly every aspect of modern society. Continuous advances in classical computer hardware architecture and semiconductor technology have enabled rapid progress in many fields of engineering and science. In many modern applications, particularly in advanced 3D imaging assisted characterization, sensing, simulation, vast amounts of data are generated and must be processed at extremely high speed in real-time. However, the rate of improvement in conventional computing hardware has begun to stagnate, creating a critical bottleneck with the slow-down in Moores scaling, limiting further performance gains. The bottleneck is in both operation speed but also the energy efficiency. Therefore, more efficient and faster compute hardware is needed. This PhD position contributes to such new hardware research.

Photonic computing hardware offers a promising alternative, leveraging the unique a...