Propagation and spatiotemporal summation of electrical pulses in semiconductor nerve fibers

A. Samardak; S. Taylor; A. Nogaret; G. Hollier; J. Austin; D. A. Ritchie

doi:10.1063/1.2770773

Propagation and spatiotemporal summation of electrical pulses in semiconductor nerve fibers

A. Samardak, S. Taylor, A. Nogaret, G. Hollier, J. Austin, D. A. Ritchie

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Abstract

The authors report the propagation and analog summation of electrical impulses in artificial nerve fibers made of submicron p-n wires. These wires model the longitudinal conductivities of K+ and Na+ ions inside and outside a nerve capillary as well as the transverse capacitance of the nerve membrane and the nonlinear conductance of its ion channels. They demonstrate the summation and annihilation of electrical impulses at room temperature which form the basis for making spike timing neural networks. (C) 2007 American Institute of Physics.

Original language	English
Article number	073502
Pages (from-to)	-
Number of pages	3
Journal	Applied Physics Letters
Volume	91
Issue number	7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2770773
Publication status	Published - 13 Aug 2007

Keywords

electrical conductivity
gallium arsenide
III-V semiconductors
molecular beam epitaxial growth
p-n junctions
semiconductor quantum wires
spatiotemporal phenomena

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