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TiO2 and Biomaterials based Memristor Devices and its In-Memory Computing Applications

2020· dissertation· en· W3103440960 on OpenAlex
Shubham Ranjan

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Bibliographic record

VenueUWSpace (University of Waterloo) · 2020
Typedissertation
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicAdvanced Memory and Neural Computing
Canadian institutionsnot available
FundersUniversity of Waterloo
KeywordsMemristorComputer scienceNanotechnologyMaterials scienceComputer architectureEngineeringElectrical engineering
DOInot available

Abstract

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As information technology is moving toward a big data era, the conventional Von Neumann architecture has shown limitation in performance. This is constrained by the large volume of data being continuously fetched and stored through input-output (IO) device, which not only adds performance penalty but power penalty as well. Therefore, it is necessary to bring processing unit as close as possible to memory for minimizing data transmission. Memristors provide dual functionalities of data storage and computing at the same location without data transmission, therefore is one of the most promising candidates for energy efficient in-memory computing. However, being stochastic in nature, variations in memristor device is one of the major challenges in its use towards in-memory computing. In this thesis, we demonstrate novel memristor devices with unique characteristics, which could facilitate reprogrammable application and high-density storage. Further, we demonstrate the applications of the fabricated memristor devices for in-memory computing, with a motive for less sensitive circuits towards variations in devices.
\nIn the first device, TiO2 and maple leaves (ML) are combined to form a functional layer (TiO2-ML) inside memristive devices, which demonstrate both the capacitive effect and the non-volatile storage capability. When the voltage increases from zero, the device firstly enters a capacitive-coupled memristive state at low voltage before switch to normal memristive state at a higher voltage. The existence of capacitive coupled and memristive behavior, modulated by programming voltage, forms a unique reprogrammable device. In the second device, formed by Al/TiO2-Graphene-DNA/Pt layers, high performance and stable intermediate multistate resistive switching behaviors have been achieved. Further, for in-memory computing, a high-density memory and multibit parallel logic computations are realized based on the multistate resistive switching behaviors. This improves data storage capacity and performance up to 2 with respect to conventional single bit memristor devices when they are used to store binary data, without any compromise in accuracy. Further, we use Al/TiO2/Al memristor device, to demonstrate a variation tolerant analog-digital-hybrid matrix multiplication circuit, for high precision and efficient in-memory computing. It was observed that, in comparison to conventional analog based matrix multiplication scheme using memristor, the proposed scheme improves the average accuracy up to 16.35%, with sacrificing power, performance and area up to 18.5%, 8.2% and 3.2% respectively. This work provides a new horizon on the memristor devices and will improve the understanding of engineering device and circuits for efficient and variation tolerant in-memory computing.

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Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: Bench or experimental
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.324
Threshold uncertainty score0.861

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

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Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.011
GPT teacher head0.203
Teacher spread0.192 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it