Emulation of advanced synaptic functions of the human brain with electronic devices contributes an important step toward constructing high‐efficiency neuromorphic systems.Ferroelectric materials are promising candida...Emulation of advanced synaptic functions of the human brain with electronic devices contributes an important step toward constructing high‐efficiency neuromorphic systems.Ferroelectric materials are promising candidates as synaptic weight elements in neural network hardware due to their controllable polarization states.However,the increased depolarization field at the na-noscale and the complex fabrication process of the traditional ferroelectric materials hamper the development of high‐density,low‐power,and highly sensitive synaptic devices.Here,we report the implementation of two‐dimensional(2D)ferroelectricα‐In_(2)Se_(3)as an active channel material to emulate typical synaptic functions.Theα‐In_(2)Se_(3)‐based synaptic device fea-tures multimode operations,enabled by the coupled ferroelectric polarization under various voltage pulses applied at both drain and gate terminals.Moreover,the energy consumption can be reduced to~1 pJ by using high‐κdielectric(Al2O3).The successful control of ferroelectric polarizations inα‐In_(2)Se_(3)and its application in artificial synapses are expected to inspire the implementation of 2D ferroelectric materials for future neuromorphic systems.展开更多
We develop quantum mechanical Dirac ket-bra operator’s integration theory in Q-ordering or P-ordering to multimode case,where Q-ordering means all Qs are to the left of all Ps and P-ordering means all Ps are to the l...We develop quantum mechanical Dirac ket-bra operator’s integration theory in Q-ordering or P-ordering to multimode case,where Q-ordering means all Qs are to the left of all Ps and P-ordering means all Ps are to the left of all Qs.As their applications,we derive Q-ordered and P-ordered expansion formulas of multimode exponential operator e iPlΛlkQk.Application of the new formula in finding new general squeezing operators is demonstrated.The general exponential operator for coordinate representation transformation q1q2→A B C D q1q2is also derived.In this way,much more correpondence relations between classical coordinate transformations and their quantum mechanical images can be revealed.展开更多
A double-stage start-up structure to limit the inrush current used in current-mode charge pump with wide input range,fixed output and multimode operation is presented in this paper.As a widely utilized power source im...A double-stage start-up structure to limit the inrush current used in current-mode charge pump with wide input range,fixed output and multimode operation is presented in this paper.As a widely utilized power source implement,a Li-battery is always used as the power supply for chips.Due to the internal resistance,a potential drop will be generated at the input terminal of the chip with an input current.A false shut down with a low supply voltage will happen if the input current is too large,leading to the degradation of the Li-battery＇s service life.To solve this problem,the inrush current is limited by introducing a new start-up state.All of the circuits have been implemented with the NUVOTON 0.6 μm CMOS process.The measurement results show that the inrush current can be limited below 1 A within all input supply ranges,and the power efficiency is higher than the conventional structure.展开更多
基金Ministry of Education—Singapore,Grant/Award Number:MOE‐2019‐T2‐1‐002National Natural Science Foundation of China,Grant/Award Numbers:21872100,U2032147Agency for Science,Technology and Research,Grant/Award Numbers:A1938c0035,A20G9b0135。
文摘Emulation of advanced synaptic functions of the human brain with electronic devices contributes an important step toward constructing high‐efficiency neuromorphic systems.Ferroelectric materials are promising candidates as synaptic weight elements in neural network hardware due to their controllable polarization states.However,the increased depolarization field at the na-noscale and the complex fabrication process of the traditional ferroelectric materials hamper the development of high‐density,low‐power,and highly sensitive synaptic devices.Here,we report the implementation of two‐dimensional(2D)ferroelectricα‐In_(2)Se_(3)as an active channel material to emulate typical synaptic functions.Theα‐In_(2)Se_(3)‐based synaptic device fea-tures multimode operations,enabled by the coupled ferroelectric polarization under various voltage pulses applied at both drain and gate terminals.Moreover,the energy consumption can be reduced to~1 pJ by using high‐κdielectric(Al2O3).The successful control of ferroelectric polarizations inα‐In_(2)Se_(3)and its application in artificial synapses are expected to inspire the implementation of 2D ferroelectric materials for future neuromorphic systems.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 11175113)
文摘We develop quantum mechanical Dirac ket-bra operator’s integration theory in Q-ordering or P-ordering to multimode case,where Q-ordering means all Qs are to the left of all Ps and P-ordering means all Ps are to the left of all Qs.As their applications,we derive Q-ordered and P-ordered expansion formulas of multimode exponential operator e iPlΛlkQk.Application of the new formula in finding new general squeezing operators is demonstrated.The general exponential operator for coordinate representation transformation q1q2→A B C D q1q2is also derived.In this way,much more correpondence relations between classical coordinate transformations and their quantum mechanical images can be revealed.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.61106026)
文摘A double-stage start-up structure to limit the inrush current used in current-mode charge pump with wide input range,fixed output and multimode operation is presented in this paper.As a widely utilized power source implement,a Li-battery is always used as the power supply for chips.Due to the internal resistance,a potential drop will be generated at the input terminal of the chip with an input current.A false shut down with a low supply voltage will happen if the input current is too large,leading to the degradation of the Li-battery＇s service life.To solve this problem,the inrush current is limited by introducing a new start-up state.All of the circuits have been implemented with the NUVOTON 0.6 μm CMOS process.The measurement results show that the inrush current can be limited below 1 A within all input supply ranges,and the power efficiency is higher than the conventional structure.
