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Lindong Wu¹, Zongwei Wang², Bowen Wang¹

¹Institute of Microelectronics, Peking University, Beijing 100871, P. R. China. wangzongwei@pku.edu.cn caiyimao@pku.edu.cn ruhuang@pku.edu.cn.

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Area of Science:

Neuroscience
Materials Science
Computer Engineering

Background:

Electrical synapses offer rapid, bidirectional communication distinct from chemical synapses.
Neuromorphic computing aims to replicate brain functions in hardware.

Purpose of the Study:

To demonstrate a novel artificial electrical synapse based on memristor technology.
To integrate this synapse with an optical pre-processing unit for adaptive visual processing.

Main Methods:

Fabrication of an Ag-based memristor exhibiting second-order conductance transition (SOCT).
Characterization of SOCT using high-resolution transmission electron microscopy.
Integration of the memristor with a photosensitive element to form an optical pre-processing unit (OPU).
Implementation of a spiking neural network (SNN) with the OPU for pattern recognition tasks.

Main Results:

The Ag-based memristor successfully emulated biphasic plasticity of electrical synapses.
The OPU demonstrated adaptability to ambient illumination, mimicking retinal neural circuitry.
Adaptive pattern recognition was achieved under varying light and noise conditions using the OPU-SNN synergy.

Conclusions:

This work presents the first artificial electrical synapse based on SOCT in a memristor.
The developed device contributes to more complete synaptic behaviors for hardware neuromorphic computing.
The system enables adaptive image pre-processing with light adaptation and noise suppression for visual recognition.