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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Qian, Chuan
• Oh, Seyong
• Choi, Yongsuk
• Seo, Seunghwan
• Sun, Jia
• Park, Jin-Hong
• Cho, Jeong Ho

Titel

Rational Band Engineering of an Organic Double Heterojunction for Artificial Synaptic Devices with Enhanced State Retention and Linear Update of Synaptic Weight

Ist Teil von

• ACS applied materials & interfaces, 2020-03, Vol.12 (9), p.10737-10745

Ort / Verlag

United States: American Chemical Society

Erscheinungsjahr

2020

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Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Herein, we propose an organic double heterojunction to enable a nonvolatile step modulation of the conductance of an artificial synapse; the double heterojunction is composed of N,N′-dioctyl-3,4,9,10-perylene tetracarboxylic diimide (PTCDI-C8), copper phthalocyanine (CuPc), and para-sexiphenyl (p-6P). The carrier confinement in the CuPc region present in the double-heterojunction structure enabled the nonvolatile modulation of the postsynaptic current. The proposed organic synapse exhibited an excellent conductance change, characteristic with a nonlinearity (NL) value below 0.01 in the long-term potentiation (LTP) region. Furthermore, the NL value for long-term depression (LTD) could be reduced effectively from 45 to 3.5 by a pulse modulation technique. A simple artificial neural network (ANN) was theoretically designed using the LTP/LTD characteristic curves of such organic synapses, and then, learning and recognition tasks were performed using Modified National Institute of Standards and Technology digit images. A four-amplitude weight update method enabled considerable enhancement of the recognition rate from 53 to 70%. Although the designed ANN was based on a single-layer perceptron model, a high maximum accuracy of 75% was achieved. These newly studied techniques for synaptic devices are expected to open up new possibilities for the realization of artificial synapses based on organic double heterojunctions.