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In conventional digital computers, data and information are represented in binary form and encoded in the steady states of transistors. They are then processed in a quasi-static way. However, with transistors approaching their physical…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-05-12 Zhao Yuanxi , Duan Wenrui , Li Huanglong

In the last decade, a 2-terminal passive circuit element called a memristor has been developed for non-volatile resistive random access memory and has more recently shown promise for neuromorphic computing. Compared to flash memory,…

Throughout evolution the brain has mastered the art of processing real-world inputs through networks of interlinked spiking neurons. Synapses have emerged as key elements that, owing to their plasticity, are merging neuron-to-neuron…

Neuromorphic circuits mimic partial functionalities of brain in a bio-inspired information processing sense in order to achieve similar efficiencies as biological systems. While there are common mathematical models for neurons, which can be…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2017-09-26 Enver Solan , Karlheinz Ochs

Understanding the resistive switching behavior, or the resistance change, of oxide-based memristor devices, is critical to predicting their responses with known electrical inputs. Also, with the known electrical response of a memristor, one…

Memristors have been intensively studied in recent years as promising building blocks for next-generation non-volatile memory, artificial neural networks and brain-inspired computing systems. Even though the environment adaptability of…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-02-26 Nan Yang , Zhong-Qi Ren , Zhao Guan , Bo-Bo Tian , Ni Zhong , Ping-Hua Xiang , Chun-Gang Duan , Jun-Hao Chu

We report the fabrication and properties of a polymeric memristor, i.e. an electronic element with memory of its previous history. We show how this element can be viewed as a functional analog of a synaptic junction and how it can be used…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-07-03 Victor Erokhin , Marco P. Fontana

The memristive device is one of the basic elements of novel, brain-inspired, fast, and energy-efficient information processing systems in which there is no separation between memorization and information analysis functions. Since the first…

We analyzed micrometer-scale titanium-niobium-oxide prototype memristors, which exhibited low write-power (<3 {\mu}W) and energy (<200 fJ/bit/{\mu}m2), low read-power (~nW), and high endurance (>millions of cycles). To understand their…

Memristors are non-volatile nano-resistors. Their resistance can be tuned by applied currents or voltages and set to a large number of levels between two limit values. Thanks to these properties, memristors are ideal building blocks for a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-26 Steven Lequeux , Joao Sampaio , Vincent Cros , Kay Yakushiji , Akio Fukushima , Rie Matsumoto , Hitoshi Kubota , Shinji Yuasa , Julie Grollier

Memristors are continuously tunable resistors that emulate synapses. Conceptualized in the 1970s, they traditionally operate by voltage-induced displacements of matter, but the mechanism remains controversial. Purely electronic memristors…

The electrical properties and performance characteristics of niobium dioxide (NbO$_\mathrm{2}$)-based memristive devices are examined at cryogenic temperatures. Sub-stoichiometric Nb$_\mathrm{2}$O$_\mathrm{5}$ was deposited via magnetron…

The advent of advanced neuronal interfaces offers great promise for linking brain functions to electronics. A major bottleneck in achieving this is real-time processing of big data that imposes excessive requirements on bandwidth, energy…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2015-07-27 Isha Gupta , Alexantrou Serb , Ali Khiat , Ralf Zeitler , Stefano Vassanelli , Themistoklis Prodromakis

The computational efficiency of the human brain is believed to stem from the parallel information processing capability of neurons with integrated storage in synaptic interconnections programmed by local spike triggered learning rules such…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2020-03-17 S. R. Nandakumar , Bipin Rajendran

Brain-inspired computing has the potential to revolutionise the current von Neumann architecture, advancing machine learning applications. Signal transmission in the brain relies on voltage-gated ion channels, which exhibit the electrical…

The possibility to develop neuromorphic computing devices able to mimic the extraordinary data processing capabilities of biological systems spurs the research on memristive systems. Memristors with additional functionalities such as robust…

Learning and logic are fundamental brain functions that make the individual to adapt to the environment, and such functions are established in human brain by modulating ionic fluxes in synapses. Nanoscale ionic/electronic devices with…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-04-29 Chang Jin Wan , Li Qiang Zhu , Yi Shi , Qing Wan

Brain-inspired neuromorphic computing which consist neurons and synapses, with an ability to perform complex information processing has unfolded a new paradigm of computing to overcome the von Neumann bottleneck. Electronic synaptic…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Dwipak Prasad Sahu , Prabana Jetty , S. Narayana Jammalamadaka

Thermodynamic-driven filament formation in redox-based resistive memory and the impact of thermal fluctuations on switching probability of emerging magnetic switches are probabilistic phenomena in nature, and thus, processes of binary…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-10-21 Omid Kavehei , Efstratios Skafidas

Acting as artificial synapses, two-terminal memristive devices are considered fundamental building blocks for the realization of artificial neural networks. Organized into large arrays with a top-down approach, memristive devices in…