CIMTEC 2026 - 6th International Conference on Materials and Devices Technologies for Energy-efficient Neuromorphic and Unconventional Computing

In the modern world where sustainability and energy efficiency have become global priorities, future computing systems are expected to embrace these challenges. In the last decades, substantial advancements in device miniaturization and on the overall performance of classical computers have been achieved, also thanks to advancements in materials science and nanotechnology. Today information and communication technology (ICT), which is affecting almost all aspects of our society, consumes a significative percentage of global electric power resources. In this field, energy consumption is expected to increase in the coming years, making many applications, including those based on artificial intelligence, unsustainable. Within this framework, emerging inorganic and organic materials and memristive device technologies are key players in enabling the development of energy-efficient future unconventional computing paradigms, including in-memory computing approaches, neuromoprhic systems inspired by the brain functionality, and bioinspired information processing at the edge of biology.

This conference aims at bringing together an interdisciplinary community to discuss recent advancements in research within the fields of materials science, memory and memristive device technologies, modelling and simulation of materials and device properties, and novel computing applications.