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3D Neuromorphic Hardware with Single Thin‐Film Transistor Synapses Over Single Thin‐Body Transistor Neurons by Monolithic Vertical Integration
Neuromorphic hardware with a spiking neural network (SNN) can significantly enhance the energy efficiency for artificial intelligence (AI) functions owing to its event‐driven and spatiotemporally sparse operations. However, an artificial neuron and synapse based on complex complementary metal‐oxide‐semiconductor (CMOS) circuits limit the scalability and energy efficiency of neuromorphic hardware. In this work, a neuromorphic module is demonstrated composed of synapses over neurons realized by monolithic vertical integration. The synapse at top is a single thin‐film transistor (1TFT‐synapse) made of poly‐crystalline silicon film and the neuron at bottom is another single transistor (1T‐neuron) made of single‐crystalline silicon. Excimer laser annealing (ELA) is applied to activate dopants for the 1TFT‐synapse at the top and rapid thermal annealing (RTA) is applied to do so for the 1T‐neuron at the bottom. Internal electro‐thermal annealing (ETA) via the generation of Joule heat is also used to enhance the endurance of the 1TFT‐synapse without transferring heat to the 1T‐neuron at the bottom. As neuromorphic vision sensing, classification of American Sign Language (ASL) is conducted with the fabricated neuromorphic module. Its classification accuracy on ASL is ≈92.3% even after 204 800 update pulses.
3D Neuromorphic Hardware with Single Thin‐Film Transistor Synapses Over Single Thin‐Body Transistor Neurons by Monolithic Vertical Integration
Neuromorphic hardware with a spiking neural network (SNN) can significantly enhance the energy efficiency for artificial intelligence (AI) functions owing to its event‐driven and spatiotemporally sparse operations. However, an artificial neuron and synapse based on complex complementary metal‐oxide‐semiconductor (CMOS) circuits limit the scalability and energy efficiency of neuromorphic hardware. In this work, a neuromorphic module is demonstrated composed of synapses over neurons realized by monolithic vertical integration. The synapse at top is a single thin‐film transistor (1TFT‐synapse) made of poly‐crystalline silicon film and the neuron at bottom is another single transistor (1T‐neuron) made of single‐crystalline silicon. Excimer laser annealing (ELA) is applied to activate dopants for the 1TFT‐synapse at the top and rapid thermal annealing (RTA) is applied to do so for the 1T‐neuron at the bottom. Internal electro‐thermal annealing (ETA) via the generation of Joule heat is also used to enhance the endurance of the 1TFT‐synapse without transferring heat to the 1T‐neuron at the bottom. As neuromorphic vision sensing, classification of American Sign Language (ASL) is conducted with the fabricated neuromorphic module. Its classification accuracy on ASL is ≈92.3% even after 204 800 update pulses.
3D Neuromorphic Hardware with Single Thin‐Film Transistor Synapses Over Single Thin‐Body Transistor Neurons by Monolithic Vertical Integration
Han, Joon‐Kyu (author) / Lee, Jung‐Woo (author) / Kim, Yeeun (author) / Kim, Young Bin (author) / Yun, Seong‐Yun (author) / Lee, Sang‐Won (author) / Yu, Ji‐Man (author) / Lee, Keon Jae (author) / Myung, Hyun (author) / Choi, Yang‐Kyu (author)
Advanced Science ; 10
2023-10-01
12 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
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