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Structure, stability and water adsorption on ultra-thin TiO2 supported on TiN
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2019-10-21
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Gutiérrez Moreno, José Julio
Fronzi, Marco
Lovera, Pierre
O'Riordan, Alan
Ford, Mike
Li, Wenjin
Nolan, Michael
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Royal Society of Chemistry, RSC
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Stochastic computing (SC) has emerged as a potential alternative to binary computing for a number of low-power embedded systems, DSP, neural networks and communications applications. In this paper, a new method, associated architectures and implementations of complex arithmetic functions, such as exponential, sigmoid and hyperbolic tangent functions are presented. Our approach is based on a combination of piecewise linear (PWL) approximation as well as a polynomial interpolation based (Lagrange interpolation) methods. The proposed method aims at reducing the number of binary to stochastic converters. This is the most power sensitive module in an SC system. The hardware implementation for each complex arithmetic function is then derived using the 65nm CMOS technology node. In terms of accuracy, the proposed approach outperforms other well-known methods by 2 times on average. The power consumption of the implementations based on our method is decreased on average by 40 % comparing to other previous solutions. Additionally, the hardware complexity of our proposed method is also improved (40 % on average) while the critical path of the proposed method is slightly increased by 2.5% on average when comparing to other methods.
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Titanium nitride (TiN) , Density Functional Theory , Density Functional Theory (DFT) , Ultra-thin oxide , TiO2 , Titanium nitride
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Gutierrez Moreno, J. J., Fronzi, M., Lovera, P., O'Riordan, A., Ford, M., Li, W. and Nolan, M. (2019) 'Structure, stability and water adsorption on ultra-thin TiO2 supported on TiN', Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, doi: 10.1039/C9CP04506F
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© the Owner Societies 2019. This is the accepted manuscript of an article published in Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. The final authenticated version is available online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C9CP04506F