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In ACS applied materials & interfaces ; h5-index 147.0

With the current evolution in the artificial intelligence technology, more biomimetic functions are essential to execute increasingly complicated tasks and respond to challenging work environments. Therefore, an artificial nociceptor plays a significant role in the advancement of humanoid robots. Organic-inorganic halide perovskites (OHPs) have the potential to mimic the biological neurons due to their inherent ion migration. Herein, a versatile and reliable diffusive memristor built on an OHP is reported as an artificial nociceptor. This OHP diffusive memristor showed threshold switching properties with excellent uniformity, forming-free behavior, a high ION/IOFF ratio (104), and bending endurance over >102 cycles. To emulate the biological nociceptor functionalities, four significant characteristics of the artificial nociceptor, such as threshold, no adaptation, relaxation, and sensitization, are demonstrated. Further, the feasibility of OHP nociceptors in artificial intelligence is being investigated by fabricating a thermoreceptor system. These findings suggest a prospective application of an OHP-based diffusive memristor in the future neuromorphic intelligence platform.

Patil Harshada, Kim Honggyun, Kadam Kalyani D, Rehman Shania, Patil Supriya A, Aziz Jamal, Dongale Tukaram D, Ali Sheikh Zulfqar, Khalid Rahmani Mehr, Khan Muhammad Farooq, Kim Deok-Kee

2023-Mar-03

artificial nociceptors, flexible diffusive memristor, organic−inorganic perovskite (OHP), thermoreceptors, threshold switching