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Nanofluidic memristors that rely on mechanical deformations to modulate ionic conductance can be coupled to form logic circuits, opening a route to ionic machinery that could implement neural networks.
Polycrystalline films of the non-toxic element bismuth exhibit a room-temperature surface nonlinear Hall effect, which could make devices based on topological quantum effects more practical.
Tapes whose adhesive force is controlled by ultraviolet illumination can be used to cleanly transfer large-area graphene, molybdenum disulfide and other two-dimensional materials with a low thermal budget and using no organic solvents.
By transferring laser-induced graphene to a hydrogel film at cryogenic temperatures, stretchable graphene–hydrogel interfaces can be created for application in wearable and implantable electronics.
An approach to soft electronics that is inspired by the emergence process of butterflies can be used to create devices that can recover from crumpling.
An ultrathin haptic interface can selectively activate different cutaneous receptors in the skin, providing rich haptic sensation information in virtual reality.
The integration of high-performance n-type and p-type two-dimensional transistors — which can be fabricated on 300 mm wafers using a die-by-die transfer process — is an important step in the lab-to-fab transition of two-dimensional semiconductors.
A 3D stackable computing-in-memory array that is based on resistive random-access memory could accelerate the implementation of machine learning algorithms.
The monolithic integration of photonic and electronic technology can be used to create miniaturized implantable microsystems capable of high-resolution optical neural control and electrical recording in deep brain regions.
An effective gate voltage doping method can be used to create single-gate molybdenum ditelluride field-effect transistors that can be reconfigured between rectification, memory, logic and neuromorphic functions.
Dual-gate heterojunction transistors that are based on monolayer molybdenum disulfide and carbon nanotubes can provide tunable Gaussian and sigmoid functions for support vector machine computing.
Event-driven, in-sensor computing can be performed by individual vision sensors composed of two parallelly connected photodiodes, enabling vision recognition of dynamic motion.
Ring oscillator circuits that operate at gigahertz frequencies and are based on monolayer molybdenum disulfide can be created with the help of a design–technology co-optimization approach.
An adhesive bioelectronic patch that can conform to irregular curvilinear surfaces can be used in vivo to stimulate the heart and record electrocardiograms of freely moving rats.
A network of coupled electronic oscillators can be engineered to find ground states of Ising Hamiltonians and solve various combinatorial optimization problems.
