Analysis and Verification of a Novel Single-Photon Memristor

Abstract

This work reports a device based on single-photon memristor. In this paper, the equivalent circuit model of single-photon memristor was established, and we stimulated three distinctive signatures of general memristors by this model. Through the incident photon is absorbed, the device goes from the avalanche state to the quenching state, then back to the equilibrium state, and we obtained the experimental results. The results of three distinctive signatures of general memristors are verified by the test of the real single-photon memristor, which is fabricated with 0.18 μm CIS technology. On the basis of the memristive characteristics of this device, it can be applied in chaotic circuit integrated with single-photon memristor and neural network.

Keywords

• Single-photon memristor
• memristive characteristics
• avalanche