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    The progress of high-performance oxide-based transistors is essential for seamlessly integrating monolithic 3-D circuits into the CMOS backend. The authors propose using atomic layer deposition for ZnO due to its compatibility with low-temperature backend integration. They also successfully integrated ZnO TFTs with HfO2 RRAM in a 1 kbit 1T1R array, showcasing RRAM switching capabilities.

    • Wenhui Wang
    • , Ke Li
    •  & Yida Li

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    Hardware architectures based on self-organized memristive networks of nano objects have attracted a growing attention. Here, nanowire connectomes are experimentally proved to translate spatially correlated short-term plasticity effects into long-lasting topological changes, thus emulating both information encoding and memory consolidation of human brain.

    • Gianluca Milano
    • , Alessandro Cultrera
    •  & Carlo Ricciardi

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    Phase transitions in charge density wave materials could be useful for memory and electronic device applications. Here, the authors correlate the temperature-driven transitions in the electrical and optical properties of H-TaS2/1T-TaS2 heterostructures to the number of endotaxial metallic H-TaS2 monolayers.

    • Samra Husremović
    • , Berit H. Goodge
    •  & D. Kwabena Bediako

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    Implementing emotional aspects like physiology and psychology in decision-making remains a challenge. Here, the authors propose a bio-inspired gustatory circuit based on 2D materials that mimics adaptive feeding behavior in humans, considering both physiological states (hunger) and psychological states (appetite).

    • Subir Ghosh
    • , Andrew Pannone
    •  & Saptarshi Das

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    Capillary breakup in multimaterial fibers is explored for the self-assembly of optoelectronic systems. However, its insights primarily stem from numerical simulations, qualitative at best. The authors formulate an analytical model of such breakup, obtaining a window in the governing parameters where the generally chaotic breakup becomes predictable and thus engineerable.

    • Camila Faccini de Lima
    • , Fan Wang
    •  & Alexander Gumennik

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    Spin defects in semiconductors are promising for quantum technologies but understanding of defect formation processes in experiment remains incomplete. Here the authors present a computational protocol to study the formation of spin defects at the atomic scale and apply it to the divacancy defect in SiC.

    • Cunzhi Zhang
    • , Francois Gygi
    •  & Giulia Galli

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    Designing a monolithic 3D structure with interleaved logic and high-density memory layers has been difficult to achieve due to challenges in managing the thermal budget. Here, the authors demonstrate a 3D integration of monolayer MoS2 transistors with 3D vertical RRAMs through a low-temperature fabrication process whose 1T–nR structure shows high promise for low-power and high-density memory applications.

    • Maosong Xie
    • , Yueyang Jia
    •  & Rui Yang

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    Designing optoelectronic synapses having a multispectral color-discriminating ability is crucial for neuromorphic visual system. Here, the authors propose an strategy to introduce RGB color-discriminating synaptic functionality into a 2-terminals memristor regardless of switching medium and design a color image-recognizing CNN and light-programmable reservoir computing.

    • Jongmin Lee
    • , Bum Ho Jeong
    •  & Hui Joon Park

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    Liquid water or moisture discharge is a significant source of energy waste in current single-stage water-enabled electric generators. Here, authors propose a modular multistage coupling device that integrates internal liquid water flow and subsequently generated moisture to optimize energy harvesting at all stages.

    • Puying Li
    • , Yajie Hu
    •  & Liangti Qu

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    The speed-retention-endurance trade-off usually limits the performance of flash memory devices. Here, the authors report the realization of van der Waals flash memory cells based on 2H-MoS2 semiconducting channels with phase-engineered 1T-LixMoS2 edge contacts, showing program/erasing speed of ~10/100 ns, endurance of >106 cycles and expected retention lifetime of >10 years.

    • Jun Yu
    • , Han Wang
    •  & Tianyou Zhai

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    Many phototransistors are multi-component systems with inorganic materials or involve faradaic processes that can be irreversible. Using a single photoactive polymer, Druet et al. report a reversible, water-compatible n-type photoelectrochemical transistor with potentiometric photodetection and current modulation.

    • Victor Druet
    • , David Ohayon
    •  & Sahika Inal

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    Synthetic membrane channels have many potential applications, but interfacing membrane channels with electronic devices for efficient information transfer is challenging. Here the authors integrate membrane spanning DNA nanopores with bioprotonic contacts to create programmable, modular, and efficient artificial ion-channel interfaces.

    • Le Luo
    • , Swathi Manda
    •  & Marco Rolandi

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    In this work, authors demonstrate the full integration of miniaturized InGaZnO-based transparent energy device (lithium-ion battery), electronic device (thin-film transistor) and sensing device (photodetector) to form a monolithic integrated transparent microsystem with synergistic functions.

    • Bin Jia
    • , Chao Zhang
    •  & Xiaodong Huang

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    In this work, authors report a transparent dynamic infrared emissivity modulation mechanism based on reversible injection/extraction of electrons in aluminium-doped zinc oxide nanocrystals and demonstrate it for smart thermal management applications.

    • Yan Jia
    • , Dongqing Liu
    •  & Tianwen Liu

  • Perspective
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    Learning from human brains to build powerful computers is attractive, yet extremely challenging due to the lack of a guiding computing theory. Jaeger et al. give a perspective on a bottom-up approach to engineer unconventional computing systems, which is fundamentally different to the classical theory based on Turing machines.

    • Herbert Jaeger
    • , Beatriz Noheda
    •  & Wilfred G. van der Wiel

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    The fabrication of high-performance p-type 2D transistors is still challenging. Here, the authors report the realization of wafer-scale p-type 2H-MoTe2 transistor arrays contacted by Fermi-level tuned semimetallic 1T’-MoTe2 electrodes, leading to improved contact resistance and device performance.

    • Seunguk Song
    • , Aram Yoon
    •  & Soon-Yong Kwon

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    Non-fullerene-based organic solar cells generally suffer from poor thermal stability and especially in case of devices with thick active layers. Here, the authors report hexanary blends based on multi-component acceptor mixtures with a device efficiency of 17.6% and thermally stability for 23 days at 130 °C.

    • Sri Harish Kumar Paleti
    • , Sandra Hultmark
    •  & Derya Baran

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    Avalanche and surge robustness are fundamental for power devices to survive overvoltage and overcurrent stresses in typical applications. Here, authors report NiO/Ga2O3 heterojunctions with smaller reverse recovery, higher switching speed, and a robustness competitive to that of conventional homojunctions.

    • Feng Zhou
    • , Hehe Gong
    •  & Jiandong Ye

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    Crystalline high-κ dielectric materials are desired for the development of future 2D electronic devices. Here, the authors report the in-plane and out-of-plane chemical vapor deposition growth of ultrathin Bi2SiO5 crystals with dielectric constant >30 and a band gap of ~3.8 eV, showing their effective application as gate dielectric layers of MoS2 transistors.

    • Jiabiao Chen
    • , Zhaochao Liu
    •  & Jinxiong Wu

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    Implanted bioelectronic devices have proven useful for health sensing and therapy, while the interconnection of distributed implants remains challenging. Here, the authors demonstrate direct implant-to-implant wireless networking at the scale of the human body using metamaterial textiles.

    • Xi Tian
    • , Qihang Zeng
    •  & John S. Ho

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    Integration of halide perovskites into nanoscale devices has been impeded by the limits of controlled perovskite patterning. Here, the authors demonstrate on-site growth of perovskite nanocrystals with sub-50 nm size and placement control, realizing nanoscale light emitting diodes.

    • Patricia Jastrzebska-Perfect
    • , Weikun Zhu
    •  & Farnaz Niroui

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    Graphene has many intriguing electronic properties. One of note is the absence of backscattering of electrons confined to a single valley. Spin-orbit interactions can allow backscattering, and here, Sun et al. use this spin-orbit coupling dependence of backscattering to measure the strength of the spin-orbit interaction in a graphene/tungsten selenide heterostructure.

    • Lihuan Sun
    • , Louk Rademaker
    •  & Christoph Renner

  • Comment
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    Topological electronics is an emerging field aiming at exploiting the topological properties of matter in devices with extended functionalities. Recent experiments demonstrate a topological current divider, a key circuit element for this emerging technology.

    • Francesco Romeo
    •  & Antonio Di Bartolomeo

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    The application of 2D MoS2 flexible integrated circuits (ICs) is currently limited by the material quality over large areas and the device fabrication technology. Here the authors report a gate-first fabrication technique to realize wafer-scale monolayer MoS2 ICs on rigid and flexible substrates with high performance and low power consumption.

    • Jian Tang
    • , Qinqin Wang
    •  & Guangyu Zhang

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    Understanding the structure of the Kondo cloud formed by conduction electrons screening the impurity spin is a long-standing problem in many-body physics. Shim et al. propose the spatial and energy structure of the multichannel Kondo cloud, by studying quantum entanglement between the impurity and the channels.

    • Jeongmin Shim
    • , Donghoon Kim
    •  & H.-S. Sim

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    Future intelligent vision systems need efficient capacitor-free spiking photoreceptor for color perception. Here, Wang et al. report a metal oxide-based vertically integrated spiking cone photoreceptor array which transduces light into spike trains with a power consumption of less than 400 picowatts.

    • Xiangjing Wang
    • , Chunsheng Chen
    •  & Qing Wan

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    Energy harvesting by utilizing optical control has emerged as a promising solution to alleviate energy and environmental crisis. However, it is challenging to realise nano-scale energy storage and conversion in the same material. Here the authors report a nonferroelectric molecular [CoGa] crystal that uses light as an external stimulus to exhibit photoenergy conversion and energy storage properties.

    • Pritam Sadhukhan
    • , Shu-Qi Wu
    •  & Osamu Sato

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    Designing efficient selector devices remains a challenge. Here, the authors propose a CuAg alloy-based selector with excellent ON/OFF ratio and thermal stability. It can effectively suppress the sneak-path current in 1S1R arrays, making it suitable for storage class memory and neuromorphic computing applications.

    • Xi Zhou
    • , Liang Zhao
    •  & Dongdong Li

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    Designing efficient neuromorphic systems remains a challenge. Here, the authors develop a system based on multi-terminal floating-gate memristor that mimics the temporal and spatial summation of multi-neuron connections based on leaky-integrate-and-fire functionality which is capable of high learning accuracy on unlabeled MNIST handwritten dataset.

    • Ui Yeon Won
    • , Quoc An Vu
    •  & Woo Jong Yu

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    Designing efficient photonic neuromorphic systems remains a challenge. Here, the authors develop a new class of memristor sensitive to the dual electro-optical history obtained by exploiting electrochemical, photovoltaic and photo-assisted oxygen ion motion effects at a high temperature superconductor / semiconductor interface.

    • Ralph El Hage
    • , Vincent Humbert
    •  & Javier E. Villegas

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    Temperature-induced insulator-to-metal transitions are usually accompanied by structural phase transitions. Here the authors demonstrate an enhancement of the electrical conductance in a thin film of a biologically relevant metal-organic framework, without noticeable change in the structure, assigned to be of mainly electronic origin.

    • Pooja Sindhu
    • , K. S. Ananthram
    •  & Nirmalya Ballav

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