#  News 

 



Our **“Neuro-Inspired AI Inference Acceleration”** team won **2nd place** at the **Innovation Cup 2024** summer camp, organized by **Merck** near Frankfurt, Germany.



 

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##  Our research was featured in the News & Views article “Ferroelectric nanosheets boost nonlinearity,” Nature Photonics 16, 611 (2022) 

“Now reporting in Nature Photonics, **Abdelwahab and co-workers** from Singapore, Germany, Brazil, Australia and the UK demonstrate1 second harmonic generation (SHG) in the 2D ferroelectric material NbOI2 with a conversion efficiency >0.2% and an interaction length of just over 20 nm. In doing so, they make progress towards efficient phase-matching-free thin-film nonlinear optics.” ~Rupert F. Oulton, Jefferson Flórez & Alex S. Clark



 

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##  Innovators Under 35, MIT Technology Review 

Ibrahim was named one of MIT Technology Review’s Innovators Under 35



 

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##  Our work has been highlighted by Phys.org and other science news outlets. 

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##  Our research has been featured in multiple news articles on Phys.org. 

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