A carbon nanotube spiking cortical neuron with tunable refractory period and spiking duration

Proceedings - 2010 1st IEEE Latin American Symposium on Circuits and Systems, LASCAS 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 97-100

  Joshi, Jonathan ^a   Parker, Alice C ^a   Hsu, Chih Chieh ^a  

^a University of Southern California   (United States)

Author keywords

bursting neurons; carbon nanotube; Neuromorphic circuits; spiking neurons

Indexed keywords

BIOMIMETICS; INTEGRATED CIRCUIT MANUFACTURE; NANOTUBES; NEURAL NETWORKS; NEURONS; RECONFIGURABLE HARDWARE; REFRACTORY MATERIALS; SPICE; YARN;

BURSTING NEURONS; CARBON NANOTUBE TRANSISTORS; CORTICAL NEURONS; NEUROMORPHIC CIRCUITS; REFRACTORY PERIOD; SPICE SIMULATIONS; SPIKING NEURON; SPIKING PATTERNS;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

EID: 84964836374     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/LASCAS.2010.7410229     Document Type: Conference Paper

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