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Near-ideal in-memory sensing and computing devices using ferroelectrics

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A compact, time- and energy-efficient computing architecture — based on ferroelectric-defined reconfigurable two-dimensional photodiode arrays — is shown to be capable of in-memory sensing and computing.

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Fig. 1: Different sensory computing architectures and the proposed IMSC architecture.

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This is a summary of: Wu, G. et al. Ferroelectric-defined reconfigurable homojunctions for in-memory sensing and computing. Nat. Mater. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-023-01676-0 (2023).

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Near-ideal in-memory sensing and computing devices using ferroelectrics. Nat. Mater. 22, 1447–1448 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-023-01692-0

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