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R. Stanley Williams

R. Stanley Williams

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Materials Science

D-Index
113
Citations
70173
World Ranking
621
National Ranking
219

Overview

R. Stanley Williams is affiliated with Texas A&M University in the United States and has focused their research on the field of Engineering, with particular emphasis on Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Their work spans several subfields including Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Materials Chemistry, Polymers and Plastics, and Cognitive Neuroscience.

The primary research topics explored by Williams include Advanced Memory and Neural Computing, Ferroelectric and Negative Capacitance Devices, Neuroscience and Neural Engineering, Neural dynamics and brain function, Photoreceptor and optogenetics research, Transition Metal Oxide Nanomaterials, and Neural Networks and Reservoir Computing.

Williams has contributed to a number of recent papers, notable examples include:

  • Third-order nanocircuit elements for neuromorphic engineering, 2020, Nature
  • Decision trees within a molecular memristor, 2021, Nature
  • Charge disproportionate molecular redox for discrete memristive and memcapacitive switching, 2020, Nature Nanotechnology
  • Activity-difference training of deep neural networks using memristor crossbars, 2022, Nature Electronics
  • Physics-based compact modeling of electro-thermal memristors: Negative differential resistance, local activity, and non-local dynamical bifurcations, 2022, Applied Physics Reviews

Their frequent co-authors comprise a team of researchers consistently collaborating across multiple projects. The most common co-authors include:

  • Suhas Kumar
  • Sreebrata Goswami
  • T. Venkatesan
  • Sreetosh Goswami
  • Su-in Yi

Williams has published extensively in several venues, with repeated contributions to:

  • Advanced Materials
  • Nature
  • Advanced Electronic Materials
  • 2022 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS)
  • The Cambridge Structural Database

Their body of work predominantly centers on developing novel approaches to memory and neural computing systems, including neuromorphic engineering and molecular memristors. Additionally, contributions investigating the physics of memristors suggest an interdisciplinary approach that intersects materials science, electronics, and neuroscience.

Best Publications

  • The missing memristor found

    Dmitri B. Strukov;Gregory S. Snider;Duncan R. Stewart;R. Stanley Williams

  • Memristive switching mechanism for metal/oxide/metal nanodevices.

    J. Joshua Yang;Matthew D. Pickett;Xuema Li;Douglas A. A. Ohlberg

  • Electronically Configurable Molecular-Based Logic Gates

    C. P. Collier;E. W. Wong;M. Belohradský;F. M. Raymo

  • Memristors with diffusive dynamics as synaptic emulators for neuromorphic computing

    Zhongrui Wang;Saumil Joshi;Sergey E. Savel’ev;Hao Jiang

  • ‘Memristive’ switches enable ‘stateful’ logic operations via material implication

    Julien Borghetti;Gregory S. Snider;Philip J. Kuekes;J. Joshua Yang

  • Analogue signal and image processing with large memristor crossbars

    Can Li;Miao Hu;Miao Hu;Yunning Li;Hao Jiang

  • A scalable neuristor built with Mott memristors

    Matthew D. Pickett;Gilberto Medeiros-Ribeiro;R. Stanley Williams

  • The mechanism of electroforming of metal oxide memristive switches

    J Joshua Yang;Feng Miao;Matthew D Pickett;Douglas A A Ohlberg

  • Shape Transition of Germanium Nanocrystals on a Silicon (001) Surface from Pyramids to Domes

    Gilberto Medeiros-Ribeiro;Alexander M. Bratkovski;Theodore I. Kamins;Douglas A. A. Ohlberg

  • Sequence-Specific Label-Free DNA Sensors Based on Silicon Nanowires

    Z. Li;Y. Chen;X. Li;T. I. Kamins

  • Nanoscale molecular-switch crossbar circuits

    Yong Chen;Gun Young Jung;Douglas A A Ohlberg;Xuema Li

  • Switching dynamics in titanium dioxide memristive devices

    Matthew D. Pickett;Dmitri B. Strukov;Julien L. Borghetti;J. Joshua Yang

  • Efficient and self-adaptive in-situ learning in multilayer memristor neural networks

    Can Li;Daniel Belkin;Daniel Belkin;Yunning Li;Peng Yan;Peng Yan

  • Sub-nanosecond switching of a tantalum oxide memristor

    Antonio C Torrezan;John Paul Strachan;Gilberto Medeiros-Ribeiro;R Stanley Williams

  • Memristor―CMOS Hybrid Integrated Circuits for Reconfigurable Logic

    Qiangfei Xia;Warren Robinett;Michael W. Cumbie;Neel Banerjee

  • High switching endurance in TaOx memristive devices

    J. Joshua Yang;M.-X. Zhang;John Paul Strachan;Feng Miao

  • Memristor-Based Analog Computation and Neural Network Classification with a Dot Product Engine.

    Miao Hu;Catherine E. Graves;Can Li;Yunning Li

  • Dot-product engine for neuromorphic computing: programming 1T1M crossbar to accelerate matrix-vector multiplication

    Miao Hu;John Paul Strachan;Zhiyong Li;Emmanuelle M. Grafals

  • Exponential ionic drift: fast switching and low volatility of thin-film memristors

    Dmitri B. Strukov;R. Stanley Williams

  • Nano/CMOS architectures using a field-programmable nanowire interconnect

    Gregory S Snider;R Stanley Williams

  • Erratum: The missing memristor found

    Dmitri B. Strukov;Gregory S. Snider;Duncan R. Stewart;R. Stanley Williams

Frequent Co-Authors

J. Joshua Yang
J. Joshua Yang University of Southern California
Zhiyong Li
Zhiyong Li Chinese Academy of Sciences
John Paul Strachan
John Paul Strachan Hewlett-Packard (United States)
Wei Wu
Wei Wu Wuhan University
Theodore I. Kamins
Theodore I. Kamins Stanford University
Gilberto Medeiros-Ribeiro
Gilberto Medeiros-Ribeiro Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Philip J. Kuekes
Philip J. Kuekes Hewlett-Packard (United States)
Matthew D. Pickett
Matthew D. Pickett Hewlett-Packard (United States)
Yong Chen
Yong Chen University of California, Los Angeles
Feng Miao
Feng Miao Nanjing University

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