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Integrated cryogenic optoelectronic-superconducting nanowire nodes

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Integrated cryogenic optoelectronic-superconducting nanowire nodes Global energy demand from artificial intelligence infrastructure is rising rapidly. This is not sustainable. Neuromorphic hardware offers critical solutions to this problem by implementing brain-inspired, energy-efficient information processing. This project will establish a proof-of-concept neuromorphic device based on on-chip photonic interactions with optically sensitive junctions defined in superconductor nanomaterials. Nanoscale, high-aspect-ratio crystals, will be assembled into spiking neurons in a flexible, axon-like geometry suitable for neural networks. Here one nanocrystal generates on-chip light spikes that lowers the threshold of a superconducting weak link in another nanocrystal, switching it to its resistive state producing a voltage spike. By combining unmatched speed-to-power ratios of superconducting quantum devices with the brain-like parallelism of on-chip nanophotonic interactions, this proje

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