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  • Optoelectronics
  • Materials Science
  • Neuroscience

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  • Traditional computing faces bottlenecks in artificial visual systems.
  • Neuromorphic devices offer a path to overcome these limitations by integrating sensing, memory, and computing.
  • Ferroelectric-semiconductor heterojunctions show promise for advanced optoelectronic applications.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To design and fabricate a multifunctional neuromorphic optoelectronic device.
  • To integrate self-powered photodetection and low-power optical synapse functionalities into a single device.
  • To explore the device's potential for artificial visual systems and reservoir computing.

Main Methods:

  • Fabrication of a Bi₄.₁₅Nd₀.₈₅Ti₃FeO₁₅ (BNTF)/ZnO ferroelectric-semiconductor heterojunction using the sol-gel method.
  • Characterization of the device's photoresponsivity, synaptic plasticity, and power consumption.
  • Implementation of an in-sensor reservoir computing system for target recognition.

Main Results:

  • The BNTF/ZnO device demonstrated polarization-tunable, self-powered photodetection with high response speed.
  • It functioned as an artificial optical synapse, exhibiting multiple synaptic plasticity types and improving digit image recognition accuracy from 87.5% to 96.8%.
  • An in-sensor reservoir computing system achieved 97.3% accuracy in moving target recognition with ultralow power consumption (4.6 fJ).

Conclusions:

  • Ferroelectric-semiconductor heterojunction devices offer a promising platform for low-power, integrated imaging-memory-computing systems.
  • The developed device shows significant potential for advancing artificial visual systems.
  • This work highlights the advantages of such devices for overcoming von Neumann architecture limitations.