scaling law, states that the supply voltage for each new CMOS generation is reduced by 30%, and the power consumption subsequentially reduces by 50%. After decades of development, the latest 7-nm-node CMOS process reaches a supply voltage of 0.75 V. [2] Today, the Si-CMOS technology is heavily explored in Internet of Things (IoT) applications, serving as low-power outposts that record physical sensor parameters (e.g., motion, light, temperature), communicate over long distances, and harvest and store energy for its operation. [3] Expanding IoT modules with flexible, soft, or large-area chemical sensors and actuators only possible off-Si, enables a circuit technology that can amplify and route signals, facilitating signal compatibility and low-cost integration between Si-technology and embedded devices. Further, for many IoT and bioelectronic applications (e.g., (bio-)chemical sensors and neuronal interfacing), the on-site technology is preferably realized without Sichips to enable many different form factors, proximity, elasticity, and signal transduction, tailor-made for the actual chemical/biological environment. Also in this case, a low-power/voltage, high-performing, and flexible circuit technology operating at the site of stimulation or sensing is needed to record and transfer signals at high signal-to-noise performance.
The ability to accurately extract low-amplitude voltage signals is crucial inseveral fields, ranging from single-use diagnostics and medical technology to robotics and the Internet of Things (IoT). The organic electrochemical transistor (OECT), which features large transconductance values at low operating voltages, is ideal for monitoring small signals. Here, low-power and high-gain flexible circuits based on printed complementary OECTs are reported. This work leverages the low threshold voltage of both p-type and n-type enhancement-mode OECTs to develop complementary voltage amplifiers that can sense voltages as low as 100 µV, with gains of 30.4 dB and at a power consumption of 0.1-2.7 µW (single-stage amplifier). At the optimal operating conditions, the voltage gain normalized to power consumption reaches 169 dB µW −1 , which is >50 times larger than state-of-the-art OECTbased amplifiers. In a monolithically integrated two-stage configuration, these complementary voltage amplifiers reach voltage gains of 193 V/V, which are among the highest for emerging complementary metal-oxide-semiconductorlike technologies operating at supply voltages below 1 V. These flexible complementary circuits based on printed OECTs define a new power-efficient platform for sensing and amplifying low-amplitude voltage signals in several emerging beyond-silicon applications.