Collective computational activity in self-assembled arrays of quantum dots: A novel neuromorphic architecture for nanoelectronics

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Volumn 43, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 1688-1699

  Roychowdhury, Vwani P ^a   Janes, David B ^a   Bandyopadhyay, Supriyo ^a   Wang, Xiaodong ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARGE CARRIERS; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; DIGITAL IMAGE STORAGE; ELECTRIC NETWORK SYNTHESIS; ELECTRON TUNNELING; FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NEURAL NETWORKS; OPTIMIZATION; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SEMICONDUCTOR STORAGE; TUNNEL DIODES;

CONTENT ADDRESSABLE MEMORY (CAM); NANOELECTRONICS; NEUROMORPHIC COMPUTATION; SHORT TERM MEMORY (STM);

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 0030269873     PISSN: 00189383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/16.536815     Document Type: Article

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