Short-term plasticity and long-term potentiation mimicked in single inorganic synapses

Nature Materials

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 591-595

  Ohno, Takeo ^a   Hasegawa, Tsuyoshi ^a   Tsuruoka, Tohru ^a   Terabe, Kazuya ^a   Gimzewski, James K ^a,b   Aono, Masakazu ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SILVER;

BIOLOGICAL SYNAPSE; CRITICAL VOLTAGES; LONG-TERM POTENTIATIONS; NEUROMORPHIC ENGINEERING; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; SHORT TERM PLASTICITY; SPONTANEOUS DECAY; SYNAPTIC PLASTICITY;

LONG SHORT-TERM MEMORY;

SILVER DERIVATIVE; SILVER SULFIDE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; SYNAPSE;

ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; LONG-TERM POTENTIATION; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; SILVER COMPOUNDS; SYNAPSES;

EID: 79960642436     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat3054     Document Type: Article

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