Nature Communications (Aug 2018)

Capacitive neural network with neuro-transistors

  • Zhongrui Wang,
  • Mingyi Rao,
  • Jin-Woo Han,
  • Jiaming Zhang,
  • Peng Lin,
  • Yunning Li,
  • Can Li,
  • Wenhao Song,
  • Shiva Asapu,
  • Rivu Midya,
  • Ye Zhuo,
  • Hao Jiang,
  • Jung Ho Yoon,
  • Navnidhi Kumar Upadhyay,
  • Saumil Joshi,
  • Miao Hu,
  • John Paul Strachan,
  • Mark Barnell,
  • Qing Wu,
  • Huaqiang Wu,
  • Qinru Qiu,
  • R. Stanley Williams,
  • Qiangfei Xia,
  • J. Joshua Yang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05677-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Though memristors can potentially emulate neuron and synapse functionality, useful signal energy is lost to Joule heating. Here, the authors demonstrate neuro-transistors with a pseudo-memcapacitive gate that actively process signals via energy-efficient capacitively-coupled neural networks.