Mechanism and Impact of Bipolar Current Voltage Asymmetry in Computational Phase-Change Memory.

contacts memristive devices non-idealities phase-change materials

Journal

Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.)
ISSN: 1521-4095
Titre abrégé: Adv Mater
Pays: Germany
ID NLM: 9885358

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
Sep 2023
Historique:
revised: 20 03 2022
received: 07 02 2022
medline: 17 5 2022
pubmed: 17 5 2022
entrez: 16 5 2022
Statut: ppublish

Résumé

Nanoscale resistive memory devices are being explored for neuromorphic and in-memory computing. However, non-ideal device characteristics of read noise and resistance drift pose significant challenges to the achievable computational precision. Here, it is shown that there is an additional non-ideality that can impact computational precision, namely the bias-polarity-dependent current flow. Using phase-change memory (PCM) as a model system, it is shown that this "current-voltage" non-ideality arises both from the material and geometrical properties of the devices. Further, we discuss the detrimental effects of such bipolar asymmetry on in-memory matrix-vector multiply (MVM) operations and provide a scheme to compensate for it.

Identifiants

pubmed: 35570382
doi: 10.1002/adma.202201238
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

IM

Pagination

e2201238

Informations de copyright

© 2022 Wiley-VCH GmbH.

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Auteurs

Syed Ghazi Sarwat (SG)

IBM Research-Europe, Säumerstrasse 4, Rüschlikon, 8803, Switzerland.

Manuel Le Gallo (M)

IBM Research-Europe, Säumerstrasse 4, Rüschlikon, 8803, Switzerland.

Robert L Bruce (RL)

IBM Research-Yorktown Heights, Yorktown Heights, NY, 10598, USA.

Kevin Brew (K)

IBM Research AI Hardware Center-Albany, Albany, NY, 12203, USA.

Benedikt Kersting (B)

IBM Research-Europe, Säumerstrasse 4, Rüschlikon, 8803, Switzerland.

Vara Prasad Jonnalagadda (VP)

IBM Research-Europe, Säumerstrasse 4, Rüschlikon, 8803, Switzerland.

Injo Ok (I)

IBM Research AI Hardware Center-Albany, Albany, NY, 12203, USA.

Nicole Saulnier (N)

IBM Research AI Hardware Center-Albany, Albany, NY, 12203, USA.

Matthew BrightSky (M)

IBM Research-Yorktown Heights, Yorktown Heights, NY, 10598, USA.

Abu Sebastian (A)

IBM Research-Europe, Säumerstrasse 4, Rüschlikon, 8803, Switzerland.

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