Mimicking Excitatory and Inhibitory Behaviors with Optical-Absorption and Electrical-Switch Heterostructures

Abstract

Inspired by human brain neural networks, two-terminal optoelectronic synaptic devices could process large amounts of information and promise to pave the way for overcoming the von Neumann bottleneck in non-traditional computing. In this study, an optoelectronic synaptic device based on the tin oxide/cerium lead bromide quantum dot heterojunction with a two-terminal vertical structure was designed. Optical potentiation behaviors with the bias-free mode were mimicked due to carrier trapping effects in cerium lead bromide quantum dots, whereas the electrical inhibition functions were achieved ascribed to the vacancy migration in tin oxide. Based on the current optoelectronic neuromorphic devices, the simulation of classification for recognizing handwritten digits in the modified National Institute of Standards and Technology dataset achieved a high precision rate (97.94%) in an artificial neural network, indicating great potential for their future application in neuromorphic computing.

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Article type
Paper
Accepted
22 Apr 2025
First published
24 Apr 2025

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2025, Accepted Manuscript

Mimicking Excitatory and Inhibitory Behaviors with Optical-Absorption and Electrical-Switch Heterostructures

C. Zhu, T. Guo, H. Zhang, J. Jiang, Z. Lin, X. Wei, L. Wang, X. Liu, X. Li, X. Yu and W. Huang, J. Mater. Chem. C, 2025, Accepted Manuscript , DOI: 10.1039/D5TC01522G

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