Optoelectronic resistive switching devices, utilizing optical and electrical hybrid methods to control the resistance states, offer several advantages of both photons and electrons for high-performance information detecting, demodulating, processing, and memorizing. In the past decades, optoelectronic resistive switching devices have been widely discussed and studied due to the potential for parallel information transmission and processing. In this chapter, recent progresses on the optoelectronic resistive switching mechanism, materials, and devices will be introduced. Then, their performance such as photoresponsivity, on/off ratio, as well as retention will be investigated. Furthermore, possible applications of the optoelectronic resistive switching considering logic, memory, neuromorphic, and image-processing devices will be summarized. In the end, the challenges and possible solutions of optoelectronic resistive switching devices for the next-generation information technology will be discussed and prospected.
Recent Development in Optoelectronic Devices 28high potential for integrating processor and memory together, which eliminates the bottleneck between memory and processor in the modern von Neumann-computing architecture, thus allowing high parallel data processing [21][22][23][24][25][26]. However, the electronic memristor-based architecture still has bandwidth limitation in high-frequency data communicating between different modulators.The combination of photons and memristor-based circuits will integrate the advantages of photons in a high-speed data transmission and memristors in parallel in-memory computing and may open up a new era for future computing owing to the high bandwidth and lowpower consumption. Moreover, the optoelectronic-based memristive system will extend the application of memristor-based architecture to image or visual information processing. As shown in Figure 2, with the increasing demands of mobile computing in human daily life, wearable devices, health-care devices, and human-machine interacting devices including intelligent image sensor, video monitor, invisible touch screen, electronic eyes, wearable heart or blood monitoring and display devices, smart processor, and even brain-implantable devices will be more and more important for an efficient and comfortable way for our better life, body health, daily work, and communication [27][28][29][30][31][32]. The optoelectronic memristor-based architecture, wherein both photons and electrons are used for parallel data processing and communicating between input-output (I/O) devices and the in-memory processor, may provide such a platform for the mobile computing.In this chapter, recent developments on optoelectronic memristor materials and devices, and applications including logic, memory, memristor, and neuromorphic devices will be summarized, then their capability in future optoelectronic on-chip interconnection, in-memory computing, brain-inspired computing, and visual information processing will be evaluated. Figure 2. Possible opto...