Journal
ADVANCED SCIENCE
Volume 9, Issue 31, Pages -Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/advs.202203025
Keywords
ambipolarity; conjugated polymers; floating-gate free transistors; synaptic transistors; transistor memory
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Funding
- Ministry of Education [111L9006]
- National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) in Taiwan [111-2634-F-002-016, 11-2124-M-002-021-, 111-3116-F-011-006, 110-2923-E-002-007-MY3, 11-2628-E-002-009-]
- Top University Project of National Taiwan University [111L7818]
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This study investigates the correlation between the channel's ambipolarity, memory retention characteristic, and synaptic behavior for a floating-gate free transistor. By studying different polymers, it is found that polymers with balanced ambipolarity exhibit better charge trapping capabilities and larger memory windows. However, high ambipolarity results in higher volatility of the memory characteristics. On the other hand, reducing ambipolarity enhances the memory retention capability despite a reduced memory window. The study highlights the importance of the channel's ambipolarity in floating-gate free transistors for volatile memory characteristics and synaptic behaviors.
Three-terminal synaptic transistor has drawn significant research interests for neuromorphic computation due to its advantage of facile device integrability. Lately, bulk-heterojunction-based synaptic transistors with bipolar modulation are proposed to exempt the use of an additional floating gate. However, the actual correlation between the channel's ambipolarity, memory characteristic, and synaptic behavior for a floating-gate free transistor has not been investigated yet. Herein, by studying five diketopyrrolopyrrole-benzotriazole dual-acceptor random conjugated polymers, a clear correlation among the hole/electron ratio, the memory retention characteristic, and the synaptic behavior for the polymer channel layer in a floating-gate free transistor is described. It reveals that the polymers with balanced ambipolarity possess better charge trapping capabilities and larger memory windows; however, the high ambipolarity results in higher volatility of the memory characteristics, namely poor memory retention capability. In contrast, the polymer with a reduced ambipolarity possesses an enhanced memory retention capability despite showing a reduced memory window. It is further manifested that this enhanced charge retention capability enables the device to present artificial synaptic characteristics. The results highlight the importance of the channel's ambipolarity of floating-gate free transistors on the resultant volatile memory characteristics and synaptic behaviors.
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