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Publications

Publications that acknowledge InsectNeuroNano

 

Emergent spatial goals in an integrative model of the insect central complex. 

Roman Goulard, Stanley Heinze, Barbara Webb. PLoS Comput Biol. 2023 Dec 18;19(12):e1011480. doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1011480. 

Artificial nanophotonic neuron with internal memory for biologically inspired and reservoir network computing.

David Winge, Magnus Borgström, Erik Lind, and Anders Mikkelsen. 2023 Neuromorph. Comput. Eng. 3 034011.
DOI 10.1088/2634-4386/acf684 

Room-temperature electroluminescence and light detection from III-V unipolar microLEDs without p-type doping

Bejoys Jacob, Filipe Camarneiro, Jérôme Borme, José M. L. Figueiredo, Jana B. Nieder, and Bruno Romeira, Optica 10, 528-537 (2023) https://doi.org/10.1364/OPTICA.476938

Brain-inspired nanophotonic spike computing: challenges and prospects. 

Bruno Romeira, Ricardo Adão, Jana B Nieder, et al. 2023 Neuromorph. Comput. Eng. 3 033001.
Focus Issue on Photonic Neuromorphic Engineering and Neuron-Inspired Processing. 
DOI 10.1088/2634-4386/acdf17 

Optical-Beam-Induced Current in InAs/InP Nanowires for Hot-Carrier Photovoltaics

Jonatan Fast, Yen-Po Liu, Yang Chen, Lars Samuelson, Adam M. Burke, Heiner Linke, and Anders Mikkelsen. ACS Appl. Energy Mater. 2022, 5, 6, 7728–7734. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsaem.2c01208

 

A polarization sensitive robot in the sunshine.

Celestial compass sensor mimics the insect eye for navigation under cloudy and occluded skies.

We designed a compass sensor inspired by insect eyes' anatomy. The sensor includes eight polarisation analysers that point in different directions in the sky. A simple integration of their readings converts the skylight into a global orientation. We showed that our sensor can extract orientation even in cloudy and covered skies. This is particularly valuable for robots and autonomous vehicles that navigate outdoors.

Gkanias, E., Mitchell, R., Stankiewicz, J. et al. Commun Eng 2, 82 (2023). 
https://doi.org/10.1038/s44172-023-00132-w

 


The research in this project builds on previous work in the papers listed below.

Setup for testing insect navigation behaviour.
Setup for testing insect navigation behavior. Patel et al, Current Biology, 2022, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2022.05.010

Bees perform impressive vector navigation feats while foraging over long distances. Patel et al. show that bumblebees also use path integration over short distances while walking in the laboratory. This vector navigation behavior is easily controlled and also resilient to anesthetization and surgeries that are commonly required for invasive electrophysiological investigations. The scaled down transfer of a naturalistic behavior into a tightly controlled laboratory setting now opens the path to directly investigate the mechanisms underlying navigational memories in the behaving bee.

Vector navigation in walking bumblebees.
Rickesh N. Patel, Julian Kempenaers, Stanley Heinze.
Current Biology, 2022, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2022.05.010.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982222007692


Model of optoelectronic chip device. Illustration.
ACS photonics 7 (2020), 2787-2798

Here, we propose an optoelectronic circuit in a circular arrangement which is based on our understanding of biological neural circuits. 

Implementing an insect brain computational circuit using III-V nanowire components in a single shared waveguide optical network. 
David Olof Winge, Steven Limpert, Heiner Linke, Magnus T Borgström, Barbara Webb, Stanley Heinze & Anders Mikkelsen. ACS Photonics (2020) doi:10.1021/acsphotonics.0c01003.


High Responsivity of InP/InAsP Nanowire Array Broadband Photodetectors Enhanced by Optical Gating. 
Mohammad Karimi, Xulu Zeng, Bernd Witzigmann, Lars Samuelson, Magnus T. Borgström, and Håkan Pettersson. Nano Letters (2019), doi: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.9b02494


InP nanowire array solar cells achieving 13.8% efficiency by exceeding the ray optics limit. 
Jesper Wallentin, Nicklas Anttu, Damir Asoli, Maria Huffman, Ingvar Åberg, Martin H Magnusson, Gerald Siefer, Peter Fuss-Kailuweit, Frank Dimroth, Bernd Witzigmann, HQ Xu, Lars Samuelson, Knut Deppert, Magnus T Borgström. Science (2013) doi: 10.1126/science.1230969


Unraveling the Ultrafast Hot Electron Dynamics in Semiconductor Nanowires.
Lucas Wittenbecher, Emil V. Boström, Jan Vogelsang, Sebastian Lehman, Kimberly A. Dick, Claudio Verdozzi, Donatas Zigmantas, and Anders Mikkelsen.  ACS Nano (2021) doi: 10.1021/acsnano.0c08101


Ulta-Bright Fluorescent Organic Nanoparticles based on Small-Molecule Ionic Isolation Lattices, Junsheng Chen, S. M. Ali Fateminia, Laura Kacenauskaite, Nicolai Bærentsen, Karen L. Martinez, Amar H. Flood, Bo W. Laursen. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2021, DOI: 10.1002/anie.202100950 ChemRxiv version: https://doi.org/10.26434/chemrxiv.13584995.v1


Laura Kacenauskaite, Niels Bisballe, Rebecca Mucci, Marco Santella, Tönu Pullerits, Junsheng Chen, Tom Vosch* and Bo W. Laursen*. Rational design of bright long fluorescence lifetime dyad fluorophores for single molecule imaging and detection, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2021, https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.0c10457


Epitaxial Pb in InAs nanowires for quantum devices, T. Kanne et al. .... & Jesper Nygård, Nature Nanotechnology, (10 May 2021), DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41565-021-00900-9


Quantum Materials Roadmap 2021, Faustino et al., J. Phys. Mat., 2021 (Jesper Nygård is a co-author) DOI: https://doi.org/10.1088/2515-7639/abb74e


The head direction circuit of two insect species
Pisokas, I., Heinze, S., Webb, B. (2020) Elife 9, e53985, 8, 2020


Robots with insect brains.
Webb, B. (2020) Science 368 (6488), 244-245


From skylight input to behavioural output: a computational model of the insect polarised light compass.
Gkanias, E., Risse, B., Mangan, M., & Webb, B. (2019). PLoS computational biology, 15(7).


An anatomically constrained model for path integration in the bee brain.
Stone, T., Webb, B., Adden, A., Ben Weddig, N., Honkanen, A., Templin, R., Wcislo, W., Scimeca, L., Warrant, E. and Heinze, S. (2017) Current Biology 27:3068-3085


Neural mechanisms of insect navigation
Webb, B. and Wystrach, A. (2016) Current Opinion in Insect Science 15,27-39