Publication date: 24th July 2026
Inspired by memristive concepts, magneto-ionics offers a powerful route to control magnetic properties via ionic motion, particularly at ferromagnet/oxide interfaces. This capability creates new opportunities for spintronic devices with reconfigurable, multistate, and cumulative gating functionalities, while also providing a promising platform for neuromorphic hardware that combines non-volatile binary magnetic states with the analogue tunability of ionic systems.
I will discuss strategies for implementing synaptic functionalities through magneto-ionic control of magnetic anisotropy in CoFeB-based devices. These nanodevices can encode multiple non-volatile, electrically readable states and support advanced bioinspired behavior. In particular, we show that synaptic potentiation and depression can be tuned by an applied magnetic field, enabling dynamic control over the linearity of weight updates. This effect resembles neuromodulation in biological systems, and neural network simulations indicate that improved update linearity enhances learning accuracy across a broad range of learning rates.
I will also present approaches based on volatile ionic effects in spintronic devices. Here, gate-induced transient changes in magnetic anisotropy are used to control the switching probability of a spin-orbit-torque-driven magnetic memory element. While the magnetic state remains binary and non-volatile, the magneto-ionic gating state is volatile, allowing the device to separate long-term information storage from short-term update eligibility. This separation is particularly relevant for reward-based learning schemes and highlights the broader potential of magneto-ionics for neuromorphic spintronics.
nanoGe is a prestigious brand of successful science conferences that are developed along the year in different areas of the world since 2009. Our worldwide conferences cover cutting-edge materials topics like perovskite solar cells, photovoltaics, optoelectronics, solar fuel conversion, surface science, catalysis and two-dimensional materials, among many others.
Previously nanoGe Spring Meeting (NSM) and nanoGe Fall Meeting (NFM), MATSUS is a multiple symposia conference focused on a broad set of topics of advanced materials preparation, their fundamental properties, and their applications, in fields such as renewable energy, photovoltaics, lighting, semiconductor quantum dots, 2-D materials synthesis, charge carriers dynamics, microscopy and spectroscopy semiconductors fundamentals, etc.
International Conference on Hybrid and Organic Photovoltaics
International Conference on Hybrid and Organic Photovoltaics (HOPV) is celebrated yearly in May. The main topics are the development, function and modeling of materials and devices for hybrid and organic solar cells. The field is now dominated by perovskite solar cells but also other hybrid technologies, as organic solar cells, quantum dot solar cells, and dye-sensitized solar cells and their integration into devices for photoelectrochemical solar fuel production.
Asia-Pacific International Conference on Perovskite, Organic Photovoltaics and Optoelectronics
The main topics of the Asia-Pacific International Conference on Perovskite, Organic Photovoltaics and Optoelectronics (IPEROP) are discussed every year in Asia-Pacific for gathering the recent advances in the fields of material preparation, modeling and fabrication of perovskite and hybrid and organic materials. Photovoltaic devices are analyzed from fundamental physics and materials properties to a broad set of applications. The conference also covers the developments of perovskite optoelectronics, including light-emitting diodes, lasers, optical devices, nanophotonics, nonlinear optical properties, colloidal nanostructures, photophysics and light-matter coupling.
The International Conference on Perovskite Thin Film Photovoltaics Perovskite Photonics and Optoelectronics (NIPHO) is the best place to hear the latest developments in perovskite solar cells as well as on recent advances in the fields of perovskite light-emitting diodes, lasers, optical devices, nanophotonics, nonlinear optical properties, colloidal nanostructures, photophysics and light-matter coupling.