Journal
NANOTECHNOLOGY
Volume 23, Issue 27, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0957-4484/23/27/275202
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Funding
- Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) [HR0011-10-1-0009]
- Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) [FA9550-09-1-0677]
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A spiking neuron circuit based on a carbon nanotube (CNT) transistor is presented in this paper. The spiking neuron circuit has a crossbar architecture in which the transistor gates are connected to its row electrodes and the transistor sources are connected to its column electrodes. An electrochemical cell is incorporated in the gate of the transistor by sandwiching a hydrogen-doped poly(ethylene glycol) methyl ether (PEG) electrolyte between the CNT channel and the top gate electrode. An input spike applied to the gate triggers a dynamic drift of the hydrogen ions in the PEG electrolyte, resulting in a post-synaptic current (PSC) through the CNT channel. Spikes input into the rows trigger PSCs through multiple CNT transistors, and PSCs cumulate in the columns and integrate into a 'soma' circuit to trigger output spikes based on an integrate-and-fire mechanism. The spiking neuron circuit can potentially emulate biological neuron networks and their intelligent functions.
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