In the article “All-ferroelectric implementation of reservoir computing”, published in Nature Communications, Zhiwei Chen, Wenjie Li, Shuai Dong, Z. Hugh Fan, Yihong Chen, Xubing Lu, Min Zeng, Minghui Qin, Guofu Zhou, Xingsen Gao, and Jun-Ming Liu report a novel approach for implementing reservoir computing (RC) using a monolithic, fully ferroelectric hardware platform. This work is a result of multidisciplinary collaboration among experts in ferroelectric materials, neuromorphic device engineering, and condensed matter physics.
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One of the co-inventors of AFM! Born on July 20th 1947, in Frankfurt, West Germany, Prof. Binnig has made extensive contributions to scanning probe microscopy techniques, including AFM and STM. For his work on STM, he was distinguished with the 1986 Nobel Prize in Physics, shared with Heinrich Rohrer.
On July 9th 2008 this calibration image was acquired by NASA’s Phoenix Mars Lander, making it the first AFM image acquired on another planet! The inclusion of an AFM, as part of Phoenix’s Microscopy, Electrochemistry and Conductivity Analyzer, allowed for imaging at an unprecedented resolution, offering a 20-fold increase compared to the on-board optical microscope.
Photo credit: ASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona/University of Neuchatel
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