• Acta Physica Sinica
  • Vol. 68, Issue 19, 198502-1 (2019)
Nan Shao1、*, Sheng-Bing Zhang1, and Shu-Yuan Shao2
Author Affiliations
  • 1School of Computer Science and Engineering, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an 710072, China
  • 2School of Electronics and Information, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an 710072, China
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    DOI: 10.7498/aps.68.20190808 Cite this Article
    Nan Shao, Sheng-Bing Zhang, Shu-Yuan Shao. Analysis of memristor model with learning-experience behavior[J]. Acta Physica Sinica, 2019, 68(19): 198502-1 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    The behavior of transition from short-term memory (STM) to long-term memory (LTM) has been observed and reported in the experimental studies of memristors fabricated by different materials. This kind of memristor in this paper is named STM→LTM memristor. In some of these experimental researches, the learning-experience behavior observed in the " learning-forgetting-relearning” experiment is also reported. When the memristor is restimulated by pulses after forgetting the STM, its memory will quickly return to the highest state that has been reached before the forgetting period, and the memory recovery during the relearning period is obviously faster than the memory formation in the first learning process. In this paper, the behavior of the existing STM→LTM memristor model in the " learning-forgetting-relearning” experiment is further discussed. If wmax, the upper bound of the memory level, is a constant with a value of 1, the STM→LTM memristor model exhibits no learning-experience behavior, and this model shows a faster relearning behavior in the " learning-forgetting-relearning” experiment. The relearning process is faster because the memory forgetting during pulse-to-pulse interval in the relearning process is slower than that in the first learning process. In the STM→LTM memristor model with learning-experience behavior, wmax is redesigned as a state variable in [0,1], and its value will be influenced by the applied voltage. The memory formation in the first learning process is relatively slow becausewmax limits the memory formation speed when the pulse is applied. After the forgetting process, the limitation of wmax on the pulse-induced memory formation is less obvious, so the memory of the device increases at a faster speed during the memory recovery of the relearning process. In this case, the forgetting speed still becomes slower after each pulse has been applied. If the pulse-induced wmax increase is so fast that wmax will quickly increase to its upper bound after a few pulses have been applied in the first learning process, and the learning-experience behavior is similar to the faster relearning behavior when wmax = 1. In most of experimental research papers about the STM→LTM memristor, the change of the memristance can be explained by the formation and annihilation of the conductive channel between two electrodes of a memristor. During a certain period of time, the ions (or vacancies), which can be used to form the conductive channel, are only those that are around the conductive channel, which indicates that there should be an upper bound for the size of the conductive channel within this time period. The area in which ions (or vacancies) can be used to form the conductive channel is called the surrounding area of the conductive channel. In the model, wmax can be understood as the size of the conductive channel’s surrounding area, and it describes the upper bound of the width of the conductive channel.
    Nan Shao, Sheng-Bing Zhang, Shu-Yuan Shao. Analysis of memristor model with learning-experience behavior[J]. Acta Physica Sinica, 2019, 68(19): 198502-1
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