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| Open AccessCreation of a point-of-care therapeutics sensor using protein engineering, electrochemical sensing and electronic integration
Low-cost point-of-care sensors are vital for precision medicine. Here, the authors have repurposed a glucometer for breast cancer therapeutic detection capable of sensing tamoxifen in human blood, utilizing blood glucose to power and amplify the therapeutic signals
- Rong Cai
- , Chiagoziem Ngwadom
- & Caroline M. Ajo-Franklin
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| Open AccessHigh-order sensory processing nanocircuit based on coupled VO2 oscillators
It is challenging to create efficient and compact neuromorphic sensory system based on nano-scale nonlinear dynamics. Yang et al. present a capacitance-coupled VO2 oscillatory network, which serves as a continuous-time dynamic system for sensory pre-processing, enabling tasks such as touch and gesture recognition.
- Ke Yang
- , Yanghao Wang
- & Yuchao Yang
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| Open AccessComputational design of ultra-robust strain sensors for soft robot perception and autonomy
Due to the deformable nature of soft robots, developing robust sensors that can sustain stability and performance is a challenge. Here, the authors report a computational strain sensor design based on a programmed crack array for predictable, tunable, and stable sensing performance.
- Haitao Yang
- , Shuo Ding
- & Ghim Wei Ho
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| Open AccessVision-driven metasurfaces for perception enhancement
Authors showcase a framework for visual perception enhancement system based on vision-driven metasurfaces. It can help humans obtain information in multiple frequency bands and allows the metasurface platform with more interesting functions.
- Tianshuo Qiu
- , Qiang An
- & Shaobo Qu
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| Open AccessA hybrid transistor with transcriptionally controlled computation and plasticity
Interfacing living systems with electronics for biosensing and biocomputing applications is challenging. Here, Gao et al. present hybrid transistors with electroactive bacteria capable of extracellular electron transfer, enabling transduction of biological computations to electrical readouts.
- Yang Gao
- , Yuchen Zhou
- & Benjamin K. Keitz
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| Open AccessBiomimetic computer-to-brain communication enhancing naturalistic touch sensations via peripheral nerve stimulation
Loss of communication between the brain and the body severely impacts the sensorimotor abilities of disabled individuals. Here, the authors design and test a neuroscience-driven framework for advancing bionic devices that leverages biomimetic stimulation to induce physiologically plausible information flow in animals and enhances patient performance with neuroprostheses.
- Giacomo Valle
- , Natalija Katic Secerovic
- & Stanisa Raspopovic
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| Open AccessCurrent-induced switching of a van der Waals ferromagnet at room temperature
Fe3GaTe2 is a van der Waals material with a Curie temperature well above room temperature, making it an attractive material for integration into spintronic devices. Here, Kajale et al demonstrate spin-orbit torque induced switching of the magnetization of Fe3GaTe2, above room temperature, using a Pt spin Hall layer.
- Shivam N. Kajale
- , Thanh Nguyen
- & Deblina Sarkar
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| Open AccessVO2 memristor-based frequency converter with in-situ synthesize and mix for wireless internet-of-things
Frequency converters for wireless internet of things applications typically require separate circuits for different functions, causing energy and performance inefficiencies. Using an epitaxially grown VO2 memristor array, Liu et al. present a frequency converter with in-situ frequency synthesis and mix functionality.
- Chang Liu
- , Pek Jun Tiw
- & Yuchao Yang
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| Open AccessA compressive hyperspectral video imaging system using a single-pixel detector
The authors showcase a video-rate hyperspectral imager based on a single-pixel photodetector that can achieve high-throughput hyperspectral video recording at a low bandwidth. Specifically, they propose a joint spatial-spectral encoding scheme which can encode the scene into highly compressed single-pixel measurements and obtain temporal correlation at the same time.
- Yibo Xu
- , Liyang Lu
- & Kevin F. Kelly
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| Open AccessUltrabroadband high-resolution silicon RF-photonic beamformer
The Authors report a novel architecture of photonic beamformer capable of achieving broadband operation and a high number of pointing angles. We demonstrate the operation of a 5-bit beamformer capable of providing 32 pointing angles in the 10−30 GHz range.
- Pablo Martinez-Carrasco
- , Tan Huy Ho
- & José Capmany
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| Open AccessLarge-area, untethered, metamorphic, and omnidirectionally stretchable multiplexing self-powered triboelectric skins
Stretchable sensor networks with multiplexing designs can result in misrecognition due to electrical signal interferences from the sensing nodes and internal circuits. Here, Shao et al. show an untethered triboelectric electronic skin with an elastic composite-based shield layer for lower misrecognition rate.
- Beibei Shao
- , Ming-Han Lu
- & Ying-Chih Lai
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| Open AccessHydraulic-driven adaptable morphing active-cooling elastomer with bioinspired bicontinuous phases
Low thermal conduction and conformability of traditional rigid heat sinks limit their adoption in flexible electronics and soft robotics. Here, authors report a liquid metal skeleton-based active-cooling elastomer with high thermal conductivity, stretchability, and hydraulic-driven adaptable morphing.
- Dehai Yu
- , Zhonghao Wang
- & Zhizhu He
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| Open AccessData-centric artificial olfactory system based on the eigengraph
Sensitivity-dependent data analysis methods disrupted the development of artificial olfactory technologies. Here, authors present a data-centric artificial olfactory system based on eigengraph that reflects the intrinsic electrochemical interaction.
- Seung-Hyun Sung
- , Jun Min Suh
- & Seong Chan Jun
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| Open AccessShape-recovery of implanted shape-memory devices remotely triggered via image-guided ultrasound heating
Focused ultrasound could be used to change the geometry of implanted shape-memory medical devices noninvasively. Here, the authors demonstrate this concept on large animal models, showing device removal and trigger drug release.
- Yang Zhu
- , Kaicheng Deng
- & William R. Wagner
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| Open AccessAnti-friction gold-based stretchable electronics enabled by interfacial diffusion-induced cohesion
Stretchable electronics require high interfacial strength between the inert metal and elastomer components for durable interconnection applications. Cao et al. show a chemical modification-free interfacial diffusion-induced cohesion strategy, using hydrophilic polyurethane to induce hydrogen bonding of gold grains.
- Jie Cao
- , Xusheng Liu
- & Ming Liu
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| Open AccessUnravelling the amorphous structure and crystallization mechanism of GeTe phase change memory materials
The structure of an ideal glass, crystallisation mechanism, nanoscale effects, and even parallels to organic chemistry can be drawn by conceptualizing the amorphous GeTe structure as a superposition of Te and Ge lattices with atom-specific dynamics.
- Simon Wintersteller
- , Olesya Yarema
- & Maksym Yarema
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| Open AccessWaterproof and ultraflexible organic photovoltaics with improved interface adhesion
Waterproof flexible organic solar cells without compromising mechanical flexibility and conformability remains challenging. Here, the authors demonstrate in-situ growth of hole-transporting layer to strengthen interfacial and thermodynamic adhesion for better waterproofness in 3 μm-thick devices.
- Sixing Xiong
- , Kenjiro Fukuda
- & Takao Someya
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| Open AccessAdaptive tactile interaction transfer via digitally embroidered smart gloves
Adaptive tactile interactions transfer across users, space, and time, via embroidered smart gloves is reported by the authors. The scalable fabrication and adaptive computation pipeline enable tactile occlusion alleviation, human skills transfer, and interactive teleoperation.
- Yiyue Luo
- , Chao Liu
- & Wojciech Matusik
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| Open AccessAn actor-model framework for visual sensory encoding
Encoding and downsampling images is key for visual prostheses. Here, the authors show that an actor-model framework using the inherent computation of the retinal network yields better performance in downsampling images compared to learning-free methods.
- Franklin Leong
- , Babak Rahmani
- & Diego Ghezzi
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| Open AccessFinding the gap: neuromorphic motion-vision in dense environments
Inspired by insects in nature, the authors develop a neuromorphic robotic system with obstacle avoidance, tunnel centering and gap crossing capabilities. Their robotic system accomplishes these multiple capabilities by steering towards regions of low apparent motion.
- Thorben Schoepe
- , Ella Janotte
- & Elisabetta Chicca
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| Open AccessRoadmapping the next generation of silicon photonics
In order to complete the transition to the era of large-scale integration, silicon photonics will have to overcome several challenges. Here, the authors outline what these challenges are and what it will take to tackle them.
- Sudip Shekhar
- , Wim Bogaerts
- & Bhavin J. Shastri
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| Open AccessToward grouped-reservoir computing: organic neuromorphic vertical transistor with distributed reservoir states for efficient recognition and prediction
Existing neuromorphic hardware, focusing mainly on shallow-reservoir computing, is challenged in providing adequate spatial and temporal scales characteristic for effective computing. Here, Gao et al. report an ultra-short channel organic neuromorphic vertical transistor with distributed reservoir states.
- Changsong Gao
- , Di Liu
- & Huipeng Chen
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| Open AccessPowering AI at the edge: A robust, memristor-based binarized neural network with near-memory computing and miniaturized solar cell
The authors present an AI engine with 32,768 memristors powered by a miniature solar cell. This circuit exploits near-memory computing, naturally adjusting its accuracy depending on the illumination level, and paves the way for self-powered AI.
- Fadi Jebali
- , Atreya Majumdar
- & Jean-Michel Portal
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| Open AccessLow-k nano-dielectrics facilitate electric-field induced phase transition in high-k ferroelectric polymers for sustainable electrocaloric refrigeration
Low-k nanodiamonds are discovered to possess the ability to concurrently enhance the electrocaloric effect, thermal conductivity, and electrical stability of polymeric nanocomposites, providing support for electrocaloric refrigeration.
- Qiang Li
- , Luqi Wei
- & Xiaoshi Qian
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| Open AccessGiant tunnelling electroresistance in atomic-scale ferroelectric tunnel junctions
The authors report ferroelectric tunnel junctions based on samarium-substituted layered bismuth oxide, which show tunnelling electroresistance of 7 × 105 and high endurance over 5 billion cycles, even when the film is down to one nanometer.
- Yueyang Jia
- , Qianqian Yang
- & Rui Yang
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| Open AccessNovel nanocomposite-superlattices for low energy and high stability nanoscale phase-change memory
Data-centric applications benefit from dense, low-power memory. Here the authors use a combination of chalcogenide superlattices and nanocomposites to achieve low switching voltage (0.7 V) and fast speed (40 ns) in 40-nm-scale phase-change memory.
- Xiangjin Wu
- , Asir Intisar Khan
- & Eric Pop
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| Open AccessMachine learning-based high-frequency neuronal spike reconstruction from low-frequency and low-sampling-rate recordings
Multichannel neural recording enhances understanding of brain function, but handling large data is challenging. Here, the authors develop machine learning-based high frequency spike reconstruction from subsampled low-frequency neuronal signals.
- Nari Hong
- , Boil Kim
- & Hongki Kang
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| Open AccessFlexible switch matrix addressable electrode arrays with organic electrochemical transistor and pn diode technology
Organic neural implants hold considerable promise for biocompatible neural interfaces. Here, the authors employ polymer-based organic electrochemical diodes and transistors to develop neuron-sized complex circuits, enabling multiplexing without crosstalk and demonstrate that, when integrated onto ultra-thin plastic, these circuits achieve high performance while maintaining minimal invasiveness.
- Ilke Uguz
- , David Ohayon
- & Kenneth L. Shepard
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| Open AccessA self-powered intracardiac pacemaker in swine model
Harvesting biomechanical energy from cardiac motion is an attractive power source for implantable bioelectronic devices. Here, the authors report a battery-free, transcatheter, self-powered intracardiac pacemaker for the treatment of arrhythmia in large animal models.
- Zhuo Liu
- , Yiran Hu
- & Zhong Lin Wang
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| Open AccessWide-range soft anisotropic thermistor with a direct wireless radio frequency interface
Thermistors typically read at DC or low frequencies have limited temperature-sensing ranges. Here, authors show how a radio frequency readout can overcome the decades-old range limitation of thermistors, while creating a wireless interface for a soft thermistor composite through antennas and RFID.
- Mahmoud Wagih
- , Junjie Shi
- & Steve Beeby
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| Open AccessOnline legal driving behavior monitoring for self-driving vehicles
Ambiguity in human-oriented traffic laws poses a significant challenge to the regulation of self-driving vehicles. Here, the authors present a trigger-based hierarchical online compliance monitor for self-assessment of self-driving vehicles using ambiguous compliance threshold selection principles.
- Wenhao Yu
- , Chengxiang Zhao
- & Ding Zhao
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| Open AccessSelective knowledge sharing for privacy-preserving federated distillation without a good teacher
While federated learning is promising for efficient collaborative learning without revealing local data, it remains vulnerable to white-box privacy attacks, suffers from high communication overhead, and struggles to adapt to heterogeneous models. Here, the authors show a federated distillation method to tackle these challenges, which leverages the strengths of knowledge distillation in a federated learning setting.
- Jiawei Shao
- , Fangzhao Wu
- & Jun Zhang
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| Open AccessMoving event detection from LiDAR point streams
Timely detection of moving events in a scene plays a vital role in autonomous robots. In this work, authors develop a method to detect moving events from lidar points, achieving a temporal resolution in the order of microseconds.
- Huajie Wu
- , Yihang Li
- & Fu Zhang
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| Open AccessCompact and wideband nanoacoustic pass-band filters for future 5G and 6G cellular radios
This work addresses the fundamental challenge of the frequency up-scaling of microacoustic devices. The manuscript presents the first bank of on-chip multi-frequency, low-loss, wideband, and compact passband filters for mobile 5G and 6G applications.
- Gabriel Giribaldi
- , Luca Colombo
- & Matteo Rinaldi
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| Open AccessFrequency-hopping wave engineering with metasurfaces
Metasurfaces show variable scattering with frequency sequence. This frequency-hopping response breaks a conventional linear frequency concept and markedly expands available frequency channels from a linear number to its factorial number.
- Hiroki Takeshita
- , Ashif Aminulloh Fathnan
- & Hiroki Wakatsuchi
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| Open AccessUltrashort vertical-channel MoS2 transistor using a self-aligned contact
The simultaneous scaling down of the channel length and gate length of 2D transistors remains challenging. Here, the authors report a self-alignment process to fabricate vertical MoS2 transistors with sub-1 nm gate length and sub−50 nm channel length, exhibiting on-off ratios over 105 and on-state currents of 250 μA/μm at 4 V bias.
- Liting Liu
- , Yang Chen
- & Yuan Liu
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| Open AccessBionic artificial skin with a fully implantable wireless tactile sensory system for wound healing and restoring skin tactile function
Although artificial skins can facilitate the healing of damaged skin, the restoration of tactile functions remain a challenge. Here, Kang et al. report an artificial skin with an implantable tactile sensor that can simultaneously replace the tactile function by nerve stimulation and promote skin regeneration.
- Kyowon Kang
- , Seongryeol Ye
- & Youngmee Jung
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| Open AccessPhotogating-assisted tunneling boosts the responsivity and speed of heterogeneous WSe2/Ta2NiSe5 photodetectors
Photodetectors based on 2D materials can exhibit high photoresponsivity, but usually at the cost of their response speed. Here, the authors report a strategy based on photogating-assisted tunneling to overcome this trade-off in WSe2/Ta2NiSe5 heterostructures.
- Mingxiu Liu
- , Jingxuan Wei
- & Shaojuan Li
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| Open AccessMosaic: in-memory computing and routing for small-world spike-based neuromorphic systems
Designing efficient artificial neural network circuit architectures for optimal information routing remains a challenge. Here, the authors propose “Mosaic", the first demonstration of on-chip in-memory spike routing using memristors, optimized for small-world graphs prevalent in mammalian brains, offering orders of magnitude reduction in routing events compared to current approaches.
- Thomas Dalgaty
- , Filippo Moro
- & Melika Payvand
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| Open AccessPurely self-rectifying memristor-based passive crossbar array for artificial neural network accelerators
Designing memristor-integrated passive crossbar arrays to accelerate artificial neural networks with high reliability remains a challenge. Here, the authors propose a self-rectifying resistive switching device incorporated into a crossbar array with a density of 1 kb whose operational performance is assessed in terms of defected-cell proportion, reading margin, and selection functionality.
- Kanghyeok Jeon
- , Jin Joo Ryu
- & Gun Hwan Kim
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| Open AccessA multi-stable deployable quadrifilar helix antenna with radiation reconfigurability for disaster-prone areas
Impromptu communications are indispensable for disaster-prone regions with damaged infrastructure. Here, the authors propose a mechanically actuated bi-stable reconfigurable quadrifilar helix antenna suitable for both terrestrial and satellite L-band communications.
- Rosette Maria Bichara
- , Joseph Costantine
- & Maria Sakovsky
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| Open AccessEmbedding security into ferroelectric FET array via in situ memory operation
Existing solutions based Advanced Encryption Standard to address the security issues of nonvolatile memories incurs significant performance and power overhead. Here, the authors propose a lightweight XOR-gate based encryption/decryption technique by exploiting in-situ array operations, which achieves significant area/latency/power reduction compared to conventional designs.
- Yixin Xu
- , Yi Xiao
- & Kai Ni
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| Open AccessReal-time photonic blind interference cancellation
The authors demonstrate real-time blind photonic interference cancellation using FPGA-photonic coordinated processing with zero calibration micro-ring resonator control and sub-second cancellation weight identification.
- Joshua C. Lederman
- , Weipeng Zhang
- & Paul R. Prucnal
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| Open AccessStructural plasticity for neuromorphic networks with electropolymerized dendritic PEDOT connections
Neural networks are powerful tools for solving complex problems, but finding the right network topology for a given task remains an open question. Here, the authors propose a bio-inspired artificial neural network hardware able to self-adapt to solve new complex tasks, by autonomously connecting nodes using electropolymerization.
- Kamila Janzakova
- , Ismael Balafrej
- & Fabien Alibart
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| Open AccessElectrical performance of a fully reconfigurable series-parallel photovoltaic module
Reconfigurable modules have the potential to increase the energy yield of partially shaded photovoltaic systems. Here, the authors present outdoor test results of a full-scale prototype that can produce over 10% more energy than a module with fixed interconnections and six bypass diodes.
- Andres Calcabrini
- , Mirco Muttillo
- & Olindo Isabella
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| Open AccessCollaborative and privacy-preserving retired battery sorting for profitable direct recycling via federated machine learning
Unsorted retired batteries pose recycling challenges due to diverse cathodes. Here, the authors propose a privacy-preserving machine learning system that enables accurate sorting with minimal data, important for a sustainable battery recycling industry.
- Shengyu Tao
- , Haizhou Liu
- & Hongbin Sun
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| Open AccessAnomalous efficiency elevation of quantum-dot light-emitting diodes induced by operational degradation
Quantum-dot light-emitting diodes may exhibit anomalous efficiency enhancement upon electrical stress, as revealed by the authors, resulting from the continuous deterioration of cathode contacts.
- Siyu He
- , Xiaoqi Tang
- & Yizheng Jin
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| Open AccessA fully integrated, standalone stretchable device platform with in-sensor adaptive machine learning for rehabilitation
Methods for the wireless, continuous monitoring and analysis of activities directly from the throat skin have not been developed. Here, the authors present a stretchable device platform that provides wireless measurements and machine learning-based analysis of vibrations and muscle electrical activities from the throat.
- Hongcheng Xu
- , Weihao Zheng
- & Libo Gao
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| Open AccessUniversal selective transfer printing via micro-vacuum force
Transfer printing of inorganic semiconductors is essential for high-performance flexible electronics. Here, Park et al. report the micro-vacuum assisted selective transfer to integrate inorganic thin-film semiconductors on unusual substrates.
- Sang Hyun Park
- , Tae Jin Kim
- & Keon Jae Lee