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Memristive Nanowires-based Devices as Synthetic Neuron in Silicon

2025

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Memristors with time-dependent conductance evolution offer a compact platform for emulating neuronal behavior. In this letter, we experimentally demonstrate that a silicon nanowire (SiNW)-based volatile memristor exhibits logistic conductance modulation under electrical input. This behavior can be effectively modeled using a quasi-linear differential equation. The nonlinear response can potentially be mapped to neural activation functions and tuned via state-space control, enabling compact neuron functionality in neuromorphic systems.

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2025

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Neuromorphic engineering

Neuromorphic computing is an approach to computing that is inspired by the structure and function of the human brain. A neuromorphic computer/chip is any device that uses physical artificial neurons to do computations. In recent times, the term neuromorphic has been used to describe analog, digital, mixed-mode analog/digital VLSI, and software systems that implement models of neural systems (for perception, motor control, or multisensory integration).

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Activation function of a node in an artificial neural network is a function that calculates the output of the node (based on its inputs and the weights on individual inputs). Nontrivial problems can be solved only using a nonlinear activation function. Modern activation functions include the smooth version of the ReLU, the GELU, which was used in the 2018 BERT model, the logistic (sigmoid) function used in the 2012 speech recognition model developed by Hinton et al, the ReLU used in the 2012 AlexNet computer vision model and in the 2015 ResNet model.

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Artificial neural networks (ANNs, also shortened to neural networks (NNs) or neural nets) are a branch of machine learning models that are built using principles of neuronal organization discovered by connectionism in the biological neural networks constituting animal brains. An ANN is based on a collection of connected units or nodes called artificial neurons, which loosely model the neurons in a biological brain. Each connection, like the synapses in a biological brain, can transmit a signal to other neurons.

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