Manifesto of edge ICT fabric
A. Manzalini, R. Minerva, et al.
ICIN 2013
Two-terminal ferroelectric synaptic weights are fabricated on silicon. The active layers consist of a 2 nm thick WOx film and a 2.7 nm thick HfZrO4 (HZO) film grown by atomic layer deposition. The ultra-thin HZO layer is crystallized in the ferroelectric phase using a millisecond flash at a temperature of only 500 °C, evidenced by x-rays diffraction and electron microscopy. The current density is increased by four orders of magnitude compared to weights based on a 5 nm thick HZO film. Potentiation and depression (analog resistive switching) is demonstrated using either pulses of constant duration (as short as 20 nanoseconds) and increasing amplitude, or pulses of constant amplitude (+/−1 V) and increasing duration. The cycle-to-cycle variation is below 1%. Temperature dependent electrical characterisation is performed on a series of device cycled up to 108 times: they reveal that HZO possess semiconducting properties. The fatigue leads to a decrease, in the high resistive state only, of the conductivity and of the activation energy.
A. Manzalini, R. Minerva, et al.
ICIN 2013
Rie Kubota Ando
CoNLL 2006
Joseph Y. Halpern
aaai 1996
Rangachari Anand, Kishan Mehrotra, et al.
IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks