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  • Neuromorphic Engineering
  • Materials Science

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  • Bionic visual processing hardware aims to replicate biological vision efficiency.
  • Current bionic vision hardware is often limited to individual devices or simple arrays.
  • Comprehensive hardware implementation and practical demonstrations of bionic vision chips are scarce.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To propose and realize a complete optoelectronic insect-inspired visual sensor.
  • To demonstrate a heterogeneous integrated neuromorphic chip for advanced visual tasks.
  • To establish a novel material platform and integration strategy for low-power, multifunctional brain-inspired sensors.

Main Methods:

  • Fabrication of a Si QDs/ReS2 heterogeneous integrated neuromorphic chip using 180-nm CMOS technology.
  • Utilizing wavelength-dependent synaptic properties of ReS2 for feature discrimination.
  • Employing light pulse sequence modulation for temporal encoding of dynamic visual information.

Main Results:

  • High-fidelity discrimination between purple and red features based on wavelength-dependent synaptic properties.
  • Precise identification of leaf movement trajectories in eight directions through temporal encoding.
  • Achieved 3D perception capabilities with 99.4% accuracy in classification tasks.

Conclusions:

  • Established a novel 1D/2D/3D heterogeneously integrated material platform.
  • Developed a CMOS-compatible integration strategy for a low-power, multifunctional neuromorphic sensor chip.
  • Advanced the application of optoelectronic devices in artificial intelligence and machine vision.