Benchmarking stochasticity behind reproducibility: denoising strategies in Ta$_2$O$_5$ memristors

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Main Authors: Nyáry, Anna, Balogh, Zoltán, Sánta, Botond, Lázár, György, Olalla, Nadia Jimenez, Leuthold, Juerg, Csontos, Miklós, Halbritter, András
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author Nyáry, Anna
Balogh, Zoltán
Sánta, Botond
Lázár, György
Olalla, Nadia Jimenez
Leuthold, Juerg
Csontos, Miklós
Halbritter, András
author_facet Nyáry, Anna
Balogh, Zoltán
Sánta, Botond
Lázár, György
Olalla, Nadia Jimenez
Leuthold, Juerg
Csontos, Miklós
Halbritter, András
contents Reproducibility, endurance, driftless data retention, and fine resolution of the programmable conductance weights are key technological requirements against memristive artificial synapses in neural network applications. However, the inherent fluctuations in the active volume impose severe constraints on the weight resolution. In order to understand and push these limits, a comprehensive noise benchmarking and noise reduction protocol is introduced. Our approach goes beyond the measurement of steady-state readout noise levels and tracks the voltage-dependent noise characteristics all along the resistive switching $I(V)$ curves. Furthermore, we investigate the tunability of the noise level by dedicated voltage cycling schemes in our filamentary Ta$_2$O$_5$ memristors. This analysis highlights a broad, order-of-magnitude variability of the possible noise levels behind seemingly reproducible switching cycles. Our nonlinear noise spectroscopy measurements identify a subthreshold voltage region with voltage-boosted fluctuations. This voltage range enables the reconfiguration of the fluctuators without resistive switching, yielding a highly denoised state within a few subthreshold cycles.
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spellingShingle Benchmarking stochasticity behind reproducibility: denoising strategies in Ta$_2$O$_5$ memristors
Nyáry, Anna
Balogh, Zoltán
Sánta, Botond
Lázár, György
Olalla, Nadia Jimenez
Leuthold, Juerg
Csontos, Miklós
Halbritter, András
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Materials Science
Reproducibility, endurance, driftless data retention, and fine resolution of the programmable conductance weights are key technological requirements against memristive artificial synapses in neural network applications. However, the inherent fluctuations in the active volume impose severe constraints on the weight resolution. In order to understand and push these limits, a comprehensive noise benchmarking and noise reduction protocol is introduced. Our approach goes beyond the measurement of steady-state readout noise levels and tracks the voltage-dependent noise characteristics all along the resistive switching $I(V)$ curves. Furthermore, we investigate the tunability of the noise level by dedicated voltage cycling schemes in our filamentary Ta$_2$O$_5$ memristors. This analysis highlights a broad, order-of-magnitude variability of the possible noise levels behind seemingly reproducible switching cycles. Our nonlinear noise spectroscopy measurements identify a subthreshold voltage region with voltage-boosted fluctuations. This voltage range enables the reconfiguration of the fluctuators without resistive switching, yielding a highly denoised state within a few subthreshold cycles.
title Benchmarking stochasticity behind reproducibility: denoising strategies in Ta$_2$O$_5$ memristors
topic Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Materials Science
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.16080