Graphene Dynamic Synapse with Modulatable Plasticity

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Abstract
The synaptic activities in the nervous system is the basis of memory and learning behaviors, and the concept of biological synapse has also spurred the development of neuromorphic engineering. In recent years, the hardware implementation of the biological synapse has been achieved based on CMOS circuits, resistive switching memory, and field effect transistors with ionic dielectrics. However, the artificial synapse with regulatable plasticity has never been realized of the device level. Here, an artificial dynamic synapse based on twisted bilayer graphene is demonstrated with tunable plasticity. Due to the ambipolar conductance of graphene, both behaviors of the excitatory synapse and the inhibitory synapse could be realized in a single device. Moreover, the synaptic plasticity could also be modulated by tuning the carrier density of graphene. Because the artificial synapse here could be regulated and inverted via changing the bottom gate voltage, the whole process of synapse development could be imitated...
Funding Information
  • Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China (2011ZX02403-002, 2015CB352100)
  • National Natural Science Foundation of China (61434001, 61574083)
  • Ministry of Agriculture of the People's Republic of China (201303107)

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