Novel synaptic memory device for neuromorphic computing

Scientific Reports

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Mandal, Saptarshi ^a   El Amin, Ammaarah ^a   Alexander, Kaitlyn ^a   Rajendran, Bipin ^b   Jha, Rashmi ^a  

^a The University of Toledo   (United States)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BOMBAY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HAFNIUM; HAFNIUM OXIDE; MANGANESE; OXIDE;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGY; CHEMISTRY; DEVICES; HUMAN; MEMORY; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SYNAPSE;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; HAFNIUM; HUMANS; MANGANESE; MEMORY; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; OXIDES; SYNAPSES;

EID: 84902815201     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep05333     Document Type: Article

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