Khandelwal, U and Guo, Q and Noheda, B and Nukala, P and Chandorkar, S (2023) Dynamics of Voltage-Driven Self-Sustained Oscillations in NdNiO3 Neuristors. In: ACS Applied Electronic Materials, 5 (7). pp. 3859-3864.
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Abstract
Active memristor elements, also called neuristors, are self-oscillating devices that are very good approximations to biological neuronal functionality and are crucial to the development of low-power neuromorphic hardware. Materials showing conduction mechanisms that depend superlinearly on temperature can lead to negative differential resistance (NDR) regimes, which may further be engineered as self-oscillators. Thermal runaway effects or insulator-to-metal phase transitions (IMTs) can lead to such superlinearity and are being extensively studied in systems such as TaOx, NbOx, and VO2. However, ReNiO3 systems that offer large tunability in metal-insulator transition temperatures are less explored so far. Here, we demonstrate all-or-nothing neuron-like self-oscillations at MHz frequency and low temperatures on thin films of NdNiO3, a model charge-transfer insulator, and their frequency coding behavior. We study the temperature dependence of NDR and show that it vanishes even at temperatures below the IMT temperature. We also show that the threshold voltages scale with device size and that a simple electrothermal device model captures all these salient features. In contrast to existing models, our model correctly predicts the independence of oscillation amplitude with the applied voltage, offering crucial insights about the nature of fixed points in the NDR region, and the dynamics of non-linear oscillations about them. © 2023 American Chemical Society.
| Item Type: | Journal Article |
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| Publication: | ACS Applied Electronic Materials |
| Publisher: | American Chemical Society |
| Additional Information: | The copyright for this article belongs to authors. |
| Keywords: | Charge transfer; Metal insulator boundaries; Metal insulator transition; Neodymium compounds; Niobium compounds; Semiconductor insulator boundaries; Temperature distribution; Threshold voltage; Vanadium dioxide, Correlated materials; Insulator to metal; Insulator-to-metal phase transition; Memristor; Metal phase; Negative differential resistances; Neuristor; Oscillation; Self-sustained oscillations; Thermal model, Nickel compounds |
| Department/Centre: | Division of Interdisciplinary Sciences > Centre for Nano Science and Engineering |
| Date Deposited: | 22 Jun 2024 07:58 |
| Last Modified: | 22 Jun 2024 07:58 |
| URI: | http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/85552 |
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