Project description DEENESFRITPL Spintronics offers a path for bio-inspired computing The EU-funded NIMFEIA project aims to open up new applications for spintronics outside of the technology’s core areas of storage, signal processing and field sensing. Researchers will combine nanomagnetism and spintronics advances to develop a hardware solution for bio-inspired computing – a field of study seeking to solve computer science problems using biology models. Project work will build on advances in reciprocal lattice, where nonlinear spin-wave interactions mediated by nontrivial spin textures (e.g. magnetic vortices) can be efficiently harnessed for reservoir computing tasks like pattern recognition. Show the project objective Hide the project objective Objective NIMFEIA aims to provide a hardware solution for brain-inspired computing using magnetic materials on the nanoscale combined with advanced spintronics technologies. It is based on the disruptive idea of computation in reciprocal space where nonlinear spin-wave interactions mediated by nontrivial spin textures, such as magnetic vortices, can be efficiently harnessed for reservoir computing tasks like pattern recognition and time series prediction with minimal pre-processing of input data. We will demonstrate the ground-breaking nature of our proposal by meeting four core objectives: (1) Demonstrating the core principles of reservoir computing using GHz-regime spin waves by quantifying and designing nonlinear scattering processes in reciprocal space (TRL 3); (2) Developing an experimental and scalable proof-of-concept device using industrially compatible processes (TRL 4); (3) Demonstrating the utility of the magnon reservoir on a selected pervasive real-world use case, namely gesture and feature recognition from radar data in autonomous driving scenarios (TRL 4-5); (3) Scaling the magnon reservoir to the THz regime by moving towards the edge of the Brillouin zone and through the use of antiferromagnetic materials. While Objectives 1-3 will focus on the validation of the novel technology in laboratory and industrially relevant environment, Objective 4 will provide the groundwork for pushing this technology towards THz frequency operation and 6G compatibility. NIMFEIA will lay the foundations for a new paradigm in nanomagnetic and spintronic technologies that go beyond traditional applications in binary storage and Boolean logic, radiofrequency signal processing, as well as field sensing. It will address major current technological challenges by proposing an energy-efficient computing scheme for edge computing using artificial intelligence. Fields of science engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringinformation engineeringtelecommunicationsradio technologyradio frequencyengineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringsignal processingnatural sciencesphysical scienceselectromagnetism and electronicsspintronicsengineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringinformation engineeringtelecommunicationsradio technologyradarnatural sciencescomputer and information sciencesartificial intelligencepattern recognition Keywords spintronics spin waves nonlinear physics Programme(s) HORIZON.2.4 - Digital, Industry and Space Main Programme HORIZON.2.4.3 - Emerging enabling technologies Topic(s) HORIZON-CL4-2021-DIGITAL-EMERGING-01-14 - Advanced spintronics: Unleashing spin in the next generation ICs (RIA) Call for proposal HORIZON-CL4-2021-DIGITAL-EMERGING-01 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme HORIZON-RIA - HORIZON Research and Innovation Actions Coordinator HELMHOLTZ-ZENTRUM DRESDEN-ROSSENDORF EV Net EU contribution € 779 812,50 Address Bautzner landstrasse 400 01328 Dresden Germany See on map Region Sachsen Dresden Dresden, Kreisfreie Stadt Activity type Research Organisations Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Other funding € 0,00 Participants (6) Sort alphabetically Sort by Net EU contribution Expand all Collapse all UNIVERSITE PARIS-SACLAY France Net EU contribution € 431 307,50 Address Batiment breguet - 3 rue joliot curie 91190 Gif-sur-yvette See on map Region Ile-de-France Ile-de-France Essonne Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Other funding € 0,00 Third-party Legal entity other than a subcontractor which is affiliated or legally linked to a participant. 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