Nanowire FET based neural element for robotic tactile sensing skin

Frontiers in Neuroscience

Volumn 11, Issue SEP, 2017, Pages 501-

  Navaraj, William Taube ^a   Núñez, Carlos García ^a   Shakthivel, Dhayalan ^a   Vinciguerra, Vincenzo ^b   Labeau, Fabrice ^c   Gregory, Duncan H ^a   Dahiya, Ravinder ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b STMICROELECTRONICS   (Italy)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Nanowire Field Effect Transistor; Neuro robotics; Silicon nanowire; Sparse coding; Tactile skin

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM OXIDE; NANOWIRE; NICKEL; PLATINUM; TITANIUM;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA PROCESSING; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRONIC DEVICE; ELECTRONIC SKIN; FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTOR; GESTURE; HAND PROSTHESIS; NANOFABRICATION; ROBOTICS; SIMULATION; SYNAPSE; TOUCH;

EID: 85029825376     PISSN: 16624548     EISSN: 1662453X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2017.00501     Document Type: Article

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