A non-volatile organic electrochemical device as a low-voltage artificial synapse for neuromorphic computing

Nature Materials

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 414-418

  Van De Burgt, Yoeri ^a,f   Lubberman, Ewout ^a,b   Fuller, Elliot J ^c   Keene, Scott T ^a   Faria, Grégorio C ^a,d   Agarwal, Sapan ^c   Marinella, Matthew J ^e   Alec Talin, A ^c   Salleo, Alberto ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^e SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

^f EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; COMPLEX NETWORKS; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; INTEGRATED CIRCUIT INTERCONNECTS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MEMRISTORS; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; NEURAL NETWORKS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; SUBSTRATES;

CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY; DIFFERENT MECHANISMS; ELECTROCHEMICAL DEVICES; MECHANICAL FLEXIBILITY; NEURAL NETWORK SIMULATIONS; NEUROMORPHIC COMPUTING; STRETCHABLE ELECTRONICS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL ARCHITECTURE;

DISPLAY DEVICES;

BRAIN; ELECTROCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MOLECULAR COMPUTER; NERVE CELL NETWORK;

BRAIN; COMPUTERS, MOLECULAR; ELECTROCHEMICAL TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; NERVE NET;

EID: 85014113270     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/NMAT4856     Document Type: Article

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