English
Related papers

Related papers: Scalable Memdiodes Exhibiting Rectification and Hy…

200 papers

The persistent and switchable polarization of ferroelectric materials based on HfO$_2$-based ferroelectric compounds, compatible with large-scale integration, are attractive synaptic elements for neuromorphic computing. To achieve a record…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-09-22 Laura Bégon-Lours , Mattia Halter , Youri Popoff , Zhenming Yu , Donato Francesco Falcone , Bert Jan Offrein

Amorphous insulators have localized wave functions that decay with the distance $r$ following exp($-r/\zeta$). Since nanoscale conduction is not excluded at $r<\zeta$, one may use amorphous insulators and take advantage of their size effect…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-21 Yang Lu , I-Wei Chen

MoS$_2$ field-effect transistors (FETs) with high-\textit{k} oxides currently lag behind silicon standards in bias and temperature stability due to ubiquitous border oxide traps that cause clockwise (CW) hysteresis in gate transfer…

Thermal diodes that enable directional heat transport are essential for advanced thermal management in microelectronics, energy systems, and thermal logic devices. However, existing designs based on phase-change materials, nanostructures,…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-07-01 Qinyun Ding , Yuhao Wang , Guanqing Xiong , Wei Chen , Ying Chen , Zhaoguang Wang , Arup Neogi , Jaehyung Ju

The two-dimensional (2D) insulating material hexagonal boron nitride (h BN) has attracted much attention as the active medium in memristive devices due to its favorable physical properties, among others, a wide bandgap that enables a large…

Crossbar array architecture is an essential design element for densely connected Non-Volatile Memory(NVM) applications. To overcome intrinsic sneak current problem of crossbar arrays, each memory unit is serially attached to a selector unit…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-02-16 Yiğit Demirağ , Ekmel Özbay , Yusuf Leblebici

Memristors have emerged as key candidates for beyond-von-Neumann neuromorphic or in-memory computing owing to the feasibility of their ultrahigh-density three-dimensional integration and their ultralow energy consumption. A memristor is…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-08-06 Lingxiang Hu , Jing Yang , Jingrui Wang , Peihong Cheng , Leon O. Chua , Fei Zhuge

Non-volatile resistive switching is demonstrated in memristors with nanocrystalline molybdenum disulfide (MoS$_2$) as the active material. The vertical heterostructures consist of silicon, vertically aligned MoS$_2$ and chrome / gold metal…

Rectification properties of semiconductor p-n junction diodes are the basic and important characteristics for electronic device evaluation, especially for novel semiconductor materials. Today's semiconductor devices' fabrication and…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-10-24 Yoshimine Kato , Tomoaki Nakamura , Katsuya Komorita , Kungen Teii

Angular perturbations modify the band structure of armchair (and other metallic) carbon nanotubes by breaking the tube symmetry and may induce a metal-semiconductor transition when certain selection rules are satisfied. The symmetry…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-02 Yan Li , Slava V. Rotkin , Umberto Ravaioli

This study investigates 7-methylquinolinium halobismuthates (I, Br, and Cl) in two aspects: (1) their structural and semiconducting properties influenced by anionic composition, and (2) their memristive and plasticity characteristics for…

Electrical conductivity with gate-sweep in a few layer MoS$_2$-on-SiO$_2$ field-effect-transistor shows an abrupt reduction in hysteresis when cooled. The hysteresis and time dependent conductivity of the MoS$_2$ channel are modeled using…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-01-10 Santu Prasad Jana , Suraina Gupta , Anjan K. Gupta

Interface-type resistive switching (RS) devices with lower operation current and more reliable switching repeatability exhibits great potential in the applications for data storage devices and ultra-low-energy computing. However, the…

The human brain achieves exceptional energy efficiency by co-locating memory and processing, yet reproducing this principle in hardware remains challenging because many neuromorphic devices require standby power, offer limited…

Nanofluidic memristors have demonstrated great potential for neuromorphic system applications with the advantages of low energy consumption and excellent biocompatibility. Here, an effective way is developed to regulate the memristive…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-10-21 Zhe Liu , Hongwen Zhang , Di Liu , Tianyi Sui , Yinghua Qiu

We study minimum-energy pathways (MEPs) between the branches of metastable helical structures in chiral nematic liquid crystals (CNLCs)subjected to the electric field applied across the cell. By performing stability analysis we have found…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-11-05 Semen S. Tenishchev , Ivan M. Tambovtcev , Alexei D. Kiselev , Valery M. Uzdin

Neuromorphic functionalities in memristive devices are commonly associated with the ability to electrically create local conductive pathways by resistive switching. The archetypal correlated material, VO2, has been intensively studied for…

The possibility of in-memory computing with volatile memristive devices, namely, memristors requiring a power source to sustain their memory, is demonstrated. We have adopted a hysteretic graphene-based field emission structure as a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-17 Y. V. Pershin , S. N. Shevchenko

Defect engineering is a key strategy to control resistive switching (RS) in oxide-based memristive devices, where oxygen vacancy (OV) dynamics governs filament formation and rupture. We investigate the effect of Ag nanoparticles (AgNPs)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-02 R. Leal Martir , A. J. T. van der Ree , M. H. Aguirre , G. Palasantzas , D. Rubi , M. J. Sánchez

Cold metals have recently gained attention as a promising platform for innovative devices, such as tunnel diodes with negative differential resistance (NDR) and field-effect transistors with subthreshold swings below the thermionic limit.…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-07-08 P. Bodewei , E. Şaşıoğlu , N. F. Hinsche , I. Mertig