Neuromorphic
computing inspired by the neural systems in human brain will overcome
the issue of independent information processing and storage. An artificial
synaptic device as a basic unit of a neuromorphic computing system
can perform signal processing with low power consumption, and exploring
different types of synaptic transistors is essential to provide suitable
artificial synaptic devices for artificial intelligence. Hence, for
the first time, an electret-based synaptic transistor (EST) is presented,
which successfully shows synaptic behaviors including excitatory/inhibitory
postsynaptic current, paired-pulse facilitation/depression, long-term
memory, and high-pass filtering. Moreover, a neuromorphic computing
simulation based on our EST is performed using the handwritten artificial
neural network, which exhibits an excellent recognition accuracy (85.88%)
after 120 learning epochs, higher than most reported organic synaptic
transistors and close to the ideal accuracy (92.11%). Such a novel
synaptic device enriches the diversity of synaptic transistors, laying
the foundation for the diversified development of the next generation
of neuromorphic computing systems.
Vertical transistors have attracted enormous attention in the next-generation electronic devices due to their high working frequency, low operation voltage and large current density, while a major scientific and technological challenge for high performance vertical transistor is to find suitable source electrode. Herein, an MXene material, Ti3C2Tx, is introduced as source electrode of organic vertical transistors. The porous MXene films take the advantage of both partially shielding effect of graphene and the direct modulation of the Schottky barrier at the mesh electrode, which significantly enhances the ability of gate modulation and reduces the subthreshold swing to 73 mV/dec. More importantly, the saturation of output current which is essential for all transistor-based applications but remains a great challenge for vertical transistors, is easily achieved in our device due to the ultra-thin thickness and native oxidation of MXene, as verified by finite-element simulations. Finally, our device also possesses great potential for being used as wide-spectrum photodetector with fast response speed without complex material and structure design. This work demonstrates that MXene as source electrode offers plenty of opportunities for high performance vertical transistors and photoelectric devices.
Devices with sensing-memory-computing capability for the detection, recognition and memorization of real time sensory information could simplify data conversion, transmission, storage, and operations between different blocks in conventional chips, which are invaluable and sought-after to offer critical benefits of accomplishing diverse functions, simple design, and efficient computing simultaneously in the internet of things (IOT) era. Here, we develop a self-powered vertical tribo-transistor (VTT) based on MXenes for multi-sensing-memory-computing function and multi-task emotion recognition, which integrates triboelectric nanogenerator (TENG) and transistor in a single device with the simple configuration of vertical organic field effect transistor (VOFET). The tribo-potential is found to be able to tune ionic migration in insulating layer and Schottky barrier height at the MXene/semiconductor interface, and thus modulate the conductive channel between MXene and drain electrode. Meanwhile, the sensing sensitivity can be significantly improved by 711 times over the single TENG device, and the VTT exhibits excellent multi-sensing-memory-computing function. Importantly, based on this function, the multi-sensing integration and multi-model emotion recognition are constructed, which improves the emotion recognition accuracy up to 94.05% with reliability. This simple structure and self-powered VTT device exhibits high sensitivity, high efficiency and high accuracy, which provides application prospects in future human-mechanical interaction, IOT and high-level intelligence.
In recent years, much attention has
been focused on two-dimensional
(2D) material-based synaptic transistor devices because of their inherent
advantages of low dimension, simultaneous read–write operation
and high efficiency. However, process compatibility and repeatability
of these materials are still a big challenge, as well as other issues
such as complex transfer process and material selectivity. In this
work, synaptic transistors with an ultrathin organic semiconductor
layer (down to 7 nm) were obtained by the simple dip-coating process,
which exhibited a high current switch ratio up to 106,
well off state as low as nearly 10–12 A, and low
operation voltage of −3 V. Moreover, various synaptic behaviors
were successfully simulated including excitatory postsynaptic current,
paired pulse facilitation, long-term potentiation, and long-term depression.
More importantly, under ultrathin conditions, excellent memory preservation,
and linearity of weight update were obtained because of the enhanced
effect of defects and improved controllability of the gate voltage
on the ultrathin active layer, which led to a pattern recognition
rate up to 85%. This is the first work to demonstrate that the pattern
recognition rate, a crucial parameter for neuromorphic computing can
be significantly improved by reducing the thickness of the channel
layer. Hence, these results not only reveal a simple and effective
way to improve plasticity and memory retention of the artificial synapse
via thickness modulation but also expand the material selection for
the 2D artificial synaptic devices.
Selective attention is an efficient processing strategy to allocate computational resources for pivotal optical information. However, the hardware implementation of selective visual attention in conventional intelligent system is usually bulky and complex along with high computational cost. Here, programmable ferroelectric bionic vision hardware to emulate the selective attention is proposed. The tunneling effect of photogenerated carriers are controlled by dynamic variation of energy barrier, enabling the modulation of memory strength from 9.1% to 47.1% without peripheral storage unit. The molecular polarization of ferroelectric P(VDF-TrFE) layer enables a single device not only multiple nonvolatile states but also the implementation of selective attention. With these ferroelectric devices are arrayed together, UV light information can be selectively recorded and suppressed the with high current decibel level. Furthermore, the device with positive polarization exhibits high wavelength dependence in the image attention processing, and the fabricated ferroelectric sensory network exhibits high accuracy of 95.7% in the pattern classification for multi-wavelength images. This study can enrich the neuromorphic functions of bioinspired sensing devices and pave the way for profound implications of future bioinspired optoelectronics.
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