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IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON NANOTECHNOLOGY
卷 22, 期 -, 页码 112-119出版社
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/TNANO.2023.3244139
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Magnetization; Time factors; Mathematical models; Anisotropic magnetoresistance; Shape; Neurons; Manganese; Binary stochastic neurons; low barrier nanomagnets; pinning current; correlation time; device-to-device variation
Binary stochastic neurons (BSNs) are excellent activators for machine learning. Low or zero-energy-barrier nanomagnets (LBMs) with slight geometric variations can affect the activation function, pinning current and response time of BSNs, leading to large device-to-device variation and impacting integration.
Binary stochastic neurons (BSNs) are excellent activators for machine learning. An ideal platform for implementing them is low-or zero-energy-barrier nanomagnets (LBMs) possessing in-plane anisotropy (e.g., circular or slightly elliptical disks) whose fluctuating magnetization encodes a probabilistic (p-) bit. Here, we show that such a BSN's activation function, the pinning current (which pins the output to a particular binary state), and the response time - all exhibit strong sensitivity to very slight geometric variations in the LBM's cross-section. A mere 1% change in the diameter of a circular nanomagnet in any arbitrary direction can alter the response time by a factor of -4 at room temperature and a 10% change can alter the pinning current by a factor of -2. All this causes large device-to-device variation which is detrimental to integration. we also show that the energy dissipation is lowered but the response time is increased by replacing a circular cross-section with a slightly elliptical one and then encoding the p-bit in the magnetization component along the major axis. Encoding the p-bit in the magnetization component along the minor axis has the opposite effect. The energy-delay-product, however, is relatively independent of whether the cross-section is a circle or an ellipse and which magnetization component encodes the p-bit in the case of the ellipse.
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