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A light-erasable memory and a real-time ultraviolet (UV) detector were developed from an amorphous indium-gallium-zinc-oxide (IGZO) thin-film transistor fabricated at room temperature without post-annealing. The natural defects within the IGZO or at the dielectric interface serve as electron traps to support a writing operation (switching down the channel conductance). A negative gate bias accompanied by UV illumination performs an erasing operation (switching up the channel conductance). After the writing/erasing of the proposed memory, an on/off ratio greater than 10 4 was maintained for a testing duration of 10 000 s. A real-time UV detector was also developed, and a light/dark ratio of roughly 10 4 was demonstrated.Index Terms-Indium-gallium-zinc-oxide (IGZO), memory, photodetector and room temperature.