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  • This Review examines the development of electrical reservoir computing, considering the architectures, physical nodes, and input and output layers of the approach, as well as performance benchmarks and the competitiveness of different implementations.

    • Xiangpeng Liang
    • Jianshi Tang
    • Huaqiang Wu
    Review Article
  • 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.

    • Vsevolod Belosevich
    • Qiong Ma
    News & Views
  • Physicochemical-sensing electronic skins — combined with artificial intelligence — could be used to develop personalized stress management systems.

    • H. Ceren Ates
    • Cihan Ates
    • Can Dincer
    News & Views
  • 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.

    • Tiange Zhao
    • Zhen Wang
    • Weida Hu
    News & Views
  • This Review explores the development of ingestible electronics and provides a step-by-step guide for the design of ingestible electronic capsules at the system level.

    • Angsagan Abdigazy
    • Mohammed Arfan
    • Yasser Khan
    Review Article
  • 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.

    • Tomás Pinheiro
    News & Views
  • The planar structure of thin-film piezoelectric resonators limits the integration of multiband processors on a single chip. A three-dimensional nanomechanical resonator based on conformal ferroelectric gates to excite resonance in scalable silicon fins is shown to enable multiband integration on a single chip and to facilitate densification of processors for ultrawide-band wireless communication.

    Research Briefing
  • This Review examines the development of neuromorphic hardware systems based on halide perovskites, considering how devices based on these materials can serve as synapses and neurons, and can be used in neuromorphic computing networks.

    • Maria Vasilopoulou
    • Abd Rashid bin Mohd Yusoff
    • Yong-Young Noh
    Review Article
  • An ultrathin haptic interface can selectively activate different cutaneous receptors in the skin, providing rich haptic sensation information in virtual reality.

    • Zhongda Sun
    • Zixuan Zhang
    • Chengkuo Lee
    News & Views
  • This Review examines the development of thin-film transistors for use in displays, sensors, digital circuits and memory, as well as their potential for future application in emerging technologies such as neuromorphic computing.

    • Di Geng
    • Kai Wang
    • Ming Liu
    Review Article
  • For a long time, spin–orbit coupling in bismuthates has been considered to be negligible; however, giant charge-to-spin conversion has now been observed in Ba(Pb,Bi)O3-based heterostructures. These observations provide a path toward investigating the interplay of hidden spin–orbit phenomena and superconductivity.

    Research Briefing
  • A polymer-free method for stacking 2D materials has been demonstrated, using a cantilevered transfer support made from metallized silicon nitride. The assembly process, which is compatible with ultrahigh-vacuum operation, results in atomically clean and uniform interfaces.

    Research Briefing
  • Brain organoids — integrated with electrophysiological recording hardware — can be used to create reservoir computing systems.

    • Lena Smirnova
    • Brian Caffo
    • Erik C. Johnson
    News & Views
  • 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.

    • Wenjuan Zhu
    • Xia Hong
    News & Views