摘要:
A nitride-based memristor memristor includes: a first electrode comprising a first nitride material; a second electrode comprising a second nitride material; and active region positioned between the first electrode and the second electrode. The active region includes an electrically semiconducting or nominally insulating and weak ionic switching nitride phase. A method for fabricating the nitride-based memristor is also provided.
摘要:
A nonlinear memristor includes a bottom electrode, a top electrode, and an insulator layer between the bottom electrode and the top electrode. The insulator layer comprises a metal oxide. The nonlinear memristor further includes a switching channel within the insulator layer, extending from the bottom electrode toward the top electrode, and a nano-cap layer of a metal-insulator-transition material between the switching channel and the top electrode. The top electrode comprises the same metal as the metal in the metal-insulator-transition material.
摘要:
Examples of integrated sensors are disclosed herein. An example of an integrated sensor includes a substrate and a sensing member formed on a surface of the substrate. The sensing member includes collapsible signal amplifying structures and an area surrounding the collapsible signal amplifying structures that enables self-positioning of droplets exposed thereto toward the collapsible signal amplifying structures.
摘要:
A memristor (100, 100', 100") based on mixed-metal-valence compounds comprises: a first electrode (115); a second electrode (120); a layer (105) of a mixed-metal-valence phase in physical contact with at least one layer (110, 110a, 110b) of a fully oxidized phase. The mixed-metal-valence phase is essentially a condensed phase of dopants for the fully oxidized phase that drift into and out of the fully oxidized phase in response to an applied electric field (125). One of the first and second electrodes is in electrical contact with either the layer of the mixed-metal-valence phase or a layer (110a) of a fully oxidized phase and the other is in electrical contact with the layer (or other layer (110b)) of the fully oxidized phase. The memristor is prepared by forming in either order the layer of the mixed-metal-valence phase and the layer of the fully oxidized phase, one on the other. A reversible diode (100') and an ON-switched diode (100") are also provided. A method of operating the memristor is further provided.
摘要:
Embodiments of the present invention are directed to reconfigurable two-terminal electronic switch devices (100) comprising a compound (102) sandwiched between two electrodes (104,106). These devices are configured so that the two electrode/compound interface regions can be either rectifying or conductive, depending on the concentration of dopants at the respective interface, which provides four different device operating characteristics. By forcing charged dopants into or out of the interface regions with an applied electric field pulse, a circuit element can be switched from one type of stable operation to another in at least three different ways. A family of devices built to express these properties display behaviors that provide new opportunities for nanoscale electronic devices.
摘要:
A device for generating a representative logic indicator of grouped memristors is described. The device includes a memristor array. The memristor array includes a number of first memristors having a first set of logic indicators and a number of second memristors having a second set of logic indicators. The second set of logic indicators is different than the first set of logic indicators. Each first memristor is grouped with a corresponding second memristor during a memory read operation to generate a representative logic indicator.
摘要:
In one example, a customizable nonlinear electrical device includes a first conductive layer, a second conductive layer, and a thin film metal-oxide layer sandwiched between the first conductive layer and the second conductive layer to form a first rectifying interface between the metal-oxide layer and the first conductive layer and a second rectifying interface between the metal-oxide layer and the second conductive layer. The metal-oxide layer includes an electrically conductive mixture of co-existing metal and metal oxides. A method forming a nonlinear electrical device is also provided.
摘要:
A memristor has a first electrode, a second electrode parallel to the first electrode, and a switching layer disposing between the first and second electrodes. The switching layer contains a conduction channel and a reservoir zone. The conduction channel has a Fermi glass material with a variable concentration of mobile ions. The reservoir zone is laterally disposed relative to the conduction channel, and functions as a source/sink of mobile ions for the conduction channel. In the switching operation, under the cooperative driving force of both electric field and thermal effects, the mobile ions are moved into or out of the laterally disposed reservoir zone to vary the concentration of the mobile ions in the conduction channel to change the conductivity of the Fermi glass material.
摘要:
An aerostatic platform (201) for monitoring an earth-based sensor network (210). The aerostatic platform (201) includes an aerostat (231), at least one antenna (241) coupled with the aerostat (231), and a plurality (251) of restraints (251-1, 251-2, 251-3). The antenna (241) is configurable to receive a signal transmitted from at least one sensor (210-1) in the earth-based sensor network (210). The plurality (251) of restraints (251-1, 251-2, 251-3) is configurable for fixing the antenna (241) in a fixed aerial location (115-1) above the earth-based sensor network (210), and for maintaining the antenna (241) in a sufficiently stationary position relative to the sensor (210-1) to triangulate a location (110-1) of the sensor (210-1) from a locator signal received by the antenna (241). A sensor-network-monitoring system (401) is also provided, along with a method for deploying the sensor-network monitoring system (401).