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34
Citations
5736
World Ranking
5741
National Ranking
86

Overview

Bert Jan Offrein is affiliated with IBM Research in Zurich, Switzerland, where they focus their research on engineering disciplines related to advanced memory technologies and neural computing. Their work spans multiple intersecting fields including electrical and electronic engineering, artificial intelligence, and materials chemistry.

The scientist's research primarily addresses topics such as advanced memory and neural computing, ferroelectric and negative capacitance devices, and photonic and optical devices. Additional areas of study include semiconductor materials and devices, neural networks and reservoir computing, optical network technologies, and ferroelectric and piezoelectric materials.

Recent scholarly publications by Bert Jan Offrein include:

  • A ferroelectric multilevel non-volatile photonic phase shifter, 2022, Nature Photonics
  • Back-End, CMOS-Compatible Ferroelectric Field-Effect Transistor for Synaptic Weights, 2020, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
  • Opportunities for integrated photonic neural networks, 2020, Nanophotonics
  • Scaled, Ferroelectric Memristive Synapse for Back-End-of-Line Integration with Neuromorphic Hardware, 2022, Advanced Electronic Materials
  • Filamentary TaOx/HfO2 ReRAM Devices for Neural Networks Training with Analog In-Memory Computing, 2022, Advanced Electronic Materials

Bert Jan Offrein frequently collaborates with a range of coauthors, including:

  • Valeria Bragaglia
  • Donato Francesco Falcone
  • Folkert Horst
  • Laura Bégon-Lours
  • Mattia Halter

Their research findings have been published in several prominent scientific journals and venues. Most frequent publication venues include:

  • Advanced Electronic Materials
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Nature Photonics
  • Applied Sciences
  • Neuromorphic Computing and Engineering

Best Publications

  • Cascaded Mach-Zehnder wavelength filters in silicon photonics for low loss and flat pass-band WDM (de-)multiplexing

    Folkert Horst;William M.J. Green;Solomon Assefa;Steven M. Shank

  • A strong electro-optically active lead-free ferroelectric integrated on silicon

    Stefan Abel;Thilo Stöferle;Chiara Marchiori;Christophe Rossel

  • In situ 3D nanoprinting of free-form coupling elements for hybrid photonic integration

    P.-I. Dietrich;M. Blaicher;I. Reuter;M. Billah

  • Terabus: Terabit/Second-Class Card-Level Optical Interconnect Technologies

    L. Schares;J.A. Kash;F.E. Doany;C.L. Schow

  • Polymer waveguides for electro-optical integration in data centers and high-performance computers

    Roger Dangel;Jens Hofrichter;Folkert Horst;Daniel Jubin

  • A 90nm CMOS integrated Nano-Photonics technology for 25Gbps WDM optical communications applications

    Solomon Assefa;Steven Shank;William Green;Marwan Khater

  • Polymer-Waveguide-Based Board-Level Optical Interconnect Technology for Datacom Applications

    R. Dangel;C. Berger;R. Beyeler;L. Dellmann

  • 160 Gb/s Bidirectional Polymer-Waveguide Board-Level Optical Interconnects Using CMOS-Based Transceivers

    F.E. Doany;C.L. Schow;C.W. Baks;D.M. Kuchta

  • Silicon Oxynitride Layers for Optical Waveguide Applications

    R. Germann;H. W. M. Salemink;R. Beyeler;G. L. Bona

  • A very short planar silica spot-size converter using a nonperiodic segmented waveguide

    M.M. Spuhler;B.J. Offrein;G.-L. Bona;R. Germann

  • Survey of Photonic and Plasmonic Interconnect Technologies for Intra-Datacenter and High-Performance Computing Communications

    Christos A. Thraskias;Eythimios N. Lallas;Niels Neumann;Laurent Schares

  • A Hybrid Barium Titanate–Silicon Photonics Platform for Ultraefficient Electro-Optic Tuning

    Stefan Abel;Thilo Stoferle;Chiara Marchiori;Daniele Caimi

  • Low-Loss BaTiO3–Si Waveguides for Nonlinear Integrated Photonics

    Felix Eltes;Daniele Caimi;Florian Fallegger;Marilyne Sousa

  • SiON high-refractive-index waveguide and planar lightwave circuits

    G.-L. Bona;R. Germann;B. J. Offrein

  • A ferroelectric multilevel non-volatile photonic phase shifter

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  • Development of Versatile Polymer Waveguide Flex Technology for Use in Optical Interconnects

    Roger Dangel;Folkert Horst;Daniel Jubin;Norbert Meier

  • Low power and high density optical interconnects for future supercomputers

    Petar Pepeljugoski;Jeffrey Kash;Fuad Doany;Daniel Kuchta

  • Adaptive gain equalizer in high-index-contrast SiON technology

    B.J. Offrein;F. Horst;G.L. Bona;R. Germann

  • Silicon-on-Insulator Echelle Grating WDM Demultiplexers With Two Stigmatic Points

    F. Horst;W.M.J. Green;B.J. Offrein;Y.A. Vlasov

  • Polymer Waveguides Enabling Scalable Low-Loss Adiabatic Optical Coupling for Silicon Photonics

    Roger Dangel;Antonio La Porta;Daniel Jubin;Folkert Horst

  • Back-End, CMOS-Compatible Ferroelectric Field-Effect Transistor for Synaptic Weights.

    Mattia Halter;Mattia Halter;Laura Bégon-Lours;Valeria Bragaglia;Marilyne Sousa

  • Resonant coupler-based tunable add after-drop filter in silicon-oxynitride technology for WDM networks

    B.J. Offrein;R. Germann;F. Horst;H.W.M. Salemink

Frequent Co-Authors

Daniele Caimi
Daniele Caimi IBM (United States)
Rainer F. Mahrt
Rainer F. Mahrt IBM (United States)
Clint L. Schow
Clint L. Schow University of California, Santa Barbara
Fuad E. Doany
Fuad E. Doany IBM (United States)
Yurii A. Vlasov
Yurii A. Vlasov University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Christian W. Baks
Christian W. Baks IBM (United States)
William M. J. Green
William M. J. Green IBM (United States)
Thomas Morf
Thomas Morf IBM (United States)
Daniel Erni
Daniel Erni University of Duisburg-Essen
Marta D. Rossell
Marta D. Rossell Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology

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