Two-dimensional
(2D) materials and van der Waals heterostructures have attracted tremendous
attention because of their appealing electronic, mechanical, and optoelectronic
properties, which offer the possibility to extend the range of functionalities
for diverse potential applications. Here, we fabricate a novel multiterminal
device with dual-gate based on 2D material van der Waals heterostructures.
Such a multiterminal device exhibited excellent nonvolatile multilevel
resistance switching performance controlled by the source–drain
voltage and back-gate voltage. Based on these features, heterosynaptic
plasticity, in which the synaptic weight can be tuned by another modulatory
interneuron, has been mimicked. A tunable analogue weight update (both
on/off ratio and update nonlinearity) of synapse with high speed (50
ns) and low energy (∼7.3 fJ) programming has been achieved.
These results demonstrate the great potential of the artificial synapse
based on van der Waals heterostructures for neuromorphic computing.
Artificial synaptic devices that mimic the functions of biological synapses have drawn enormous interest because of their potential in developing brain-inspired computing. Current studies are focusing on memristive devices in which the change of the conductance state is used to emulate synaptic behaviors. Here, a new type of artificial synaptic devices based on the memtranstor is demonstrated, which is a fundamental circuit memelement in addition to the memristor, memcapacitor, and meminductor. The state of transtance (presented by the magnetoelectric voltage) in memtranstors acting as the synaptic weight can be tuned continuously with a large number of nonvolatile levels by engineering the applied voltage pulses. Synaptic behaviors including the long-term potentiation, long-term depression, and spiking-time-dependent plasticity are implemented in memtranstors made of Ni/0.7Pb(Mg Nb )O -0.3PbTiO /Ni multiferroic heterostructures. Simulations reveal the capability of pattern learning in a memtranstor network. The work elucidates the promise of memtranstors as artificial synaptic devices with low energy consumption.
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