Ultrafast synaptic events in a chalcogenide memristor

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Li, Yi ^a,b   Zhong, Yingpeng ^a,b   Xu, Lei ^a,b   Zhang, Jinjian ^a,b   Xu, Xiaohua ^a,b   Sun, Huajun ^a,b   Miao, Xiangshui ^a,b  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMAN; PLASTICITY; SPIKE; STOICHIOMETRY; SYNAPSE; VELOCITY; ARTICLE; BIOMIMETICS; CHEMISTRY; DATA STORAGE DEVICE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; IMPEDANCE; MATERIALS TESTING; PHYSIOLOGY; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

PLASTIC;

BIOMIMETICS; COMPUTER STORAGE DEVICES; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; MATERIALS TESTING; PLASTICS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SYNAPSES;

EID: 84885595461     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep01619     Document Type: Article

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