In
order to imitate brain-inspired biological information processing
systems, various neuromorphic computing devices have been proposed,
most of which were prepared on rigid substrates and have energy consumption
levels several orders of magnitude higher than those of biological
synapses (∼10 fJ per spike). Herein, a new type of wearable
organic ferroelectric artificial synapse is proposed, which has two
modulation modes (optical and electrical modulation). Because of the
high photosensitivity of organic semiconductors and the ultrafast
polarization switching of ferroelectric materials, the synaptic device
has an ultrafast operation speed of 30 ns and an ultralow power consumption
of 0.0675 aJ per synaptic event. Under combined photoelectric modulation,
the artificial synapse realizes associative learning. The proposed
artificial synapse with ultralow power consumption demonstrates good
synaptic plasticity under different bending strains. This provides
new avenues for the construction of ultralow power artificial intelligence
system and the development of future wearable devices.
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