Air-stable synaptic devices based on bismuth triiodide and carbon nanotubes  

作　　者：Dandan Hao Junyao Zhang Li Li Ben Yang Pu Guo Shiqi Zhang Jia Huang 

机构地区：[1]Interdisciplinary Materials Research Center,School of Materials Science and Engineering,Frontiers Science Center for Intelligent Autonomous Systems,Tongji University,Shanghai 201804,China [2]Translational Research Institute of Brain and Brain-Like Intelligence,Shanghai Fourth People’s Hospital Affiliated to Tongji University,School of Materials Science and Engineering,Tongji University,Shanghai 200434,China

出　　处：《Nano Research》2022年第6期5435-5442,共8页纳米研究（英文版）

基　　金：supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.61822405,62074111);the Science&Technology Foundation of Shanghai(Nos.19JC1412402,20JC1415600);Shanghai Municipal Science and Technology Major Project(No.2021SHZDZX0100);Shanghai Municipal Commission of Science and Technology Project(No.19511132101);the support of the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities.

摘　　要：Artificial synaptic devices with the functions of emulating important biological synaptic behaviors are playing an increasingly important role in the development of neuromorphic computing systems.Single-walled carbon nanotubes(SWCNTs)with excellent electrical properties and high stability have been studied as active materials for synaptic devices.However,the performance of optical synaptic devices(OSDs)based on pure SWCNTs is limited by the weak light absorption property.Herein,bismuth triiodide(BiI_(3)),an environmentally stable and friendly optoelectronic material,is firstly combined with SWCNTs to fabricate OSDs with decent properties of perceiving and memorizing optical information.The OSDs can exhibit typical synaptic behaviors including excitatory postsynaptic current,paired-pulse facilitation,and short/long-term memory.Distinctively,the photoresponse of the OSD is independent of pulse light wavelength in the range of 365 to 650 nm,different from most of the previously reported OSDs,which usually have wavelength-dependent photo-response.Temperature-dependent photo-response behaviors of the devices are investigated.Importantly,the OSD without encapsulation holds good excitatory post-synaptic current(EPSC)behavior after being stored in the ambient environment for 170 days,indicating reliable environmental stability.Furthermore,an OSD array with nine synaptic devices is employed to mimic the human visual perception and memory functions.These results suggest the feasibility of BiI3/SWCNTs-based OSDs for the simulation of human visual memory.

关 键 词：semiconducting single-walled carbon nanotubes bismuth triiodide optical synaptic devices stability human visual memory 

分 类 号：TB3[一般工业技术—材料科学与工程]