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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Manning, Hugh G
• Niosi, Fabio
• da Rocha, Claudia Gomes
• Bellew, Allen T
• O'Callaghan, Colin
• Biswas, Subhajit
• Flowers, Patrick F
• Wiley, Benjamin J
• Holmes, Justin D
• Ferreira, Mauro S
• Boland, John J

Titel

Emergence of winner-takes-all connectivity paths in random nanowire networks

Ist Teil von

• Nature communications, 2018-08, Vol.9 (1), p.3219-9, Article 3219

Ort / Verlag

England: Nature Publishing Group

Erscheinungsjahr

2018

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Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Nanowire networks are promising memristive architectures for neuromorphic applications due to their connectivity and neurosynaptic-like behaviours. Here, we demonstrate a self-similar scaling of the conductance of networks and the junctions that comprise them. We show this behavior is an emergent property of any junction-dominated network. A particular class of junctions naturally leads to the emergence of conductance plateaus and a "winner-takes-all" conducting path that spans the entire network, and which we show corresponds to the lowest-energy connectivity path. The memory stored in the conductance state is distributed across the network but encoded in specific connectivity pathways, similar to that found in biological systems. These results are expected to have important implications for development of neuromorphic devices based on reservoir computing.