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SUMMARY:IMT Talk : Photonics using functional materials for computing
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DESCRIPTION:Prof. Harish Bhaskaran\nNew terms such as Machine Learning and
  Artificial Intelligence are now used daily. None of these would be possib
 le without the fantastic advances in electronics\, but surprisingly\, new 
 techniques and architectures for hardware engineering of such devices has 
 only recently become an important topic. In this talk\, I shall talk about
  how both device concepts and new materials can bring about a step change 
 in this field. Photonics and Optoelectronics will become mainstream in the
  next few years\, and I hope to convince you that whatever route these t
 echnologies take\, a class of materials known as phase change materials 
 will play a key role in their commercialization. I shall give an overvie
 w of these with a view towards their near-term applications in displays\,
  and their medium-to-long-term potential in integrated photonic memories 
 to photonic machine-learning hardware components\, with a few of our rece
 nt results in this area.\nI shall also briefly talk about new sustainable
  and additive nanofabrication technologies that are required to enable t
 hese technologies to be manufactured in future - not just on silicon\, but
  on flexible and non-traditional substrates.\n\nShort Bio:\n\nHarish Bhask
 aran is presently Professor of Applied Nanomaterials at Oxford. His resear
 ch interests are in the areas of integration of functional materials in de
 vices\, primarily optoelectronic and computing devices\, as well as addres
 sing the emerging manufacturing challenges in this area. He holds the EPSR
 C Fellowship in Manufacturing (since 2013)\, is a Fellow of the IMechE and
  a Chartered Engineer.
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