Nature Communications (Oct 2024)

Ultrasensitive dim-light neuromorphic vision sensing via momentum-conserved reconfigurable van der Waals heterostructure

  • Lei Xu,
  • Junling Liu,
  • Xinrui Guo,
  • Shuo Liu,
  • Xilin Lai,
  • Jingyue Wang,
  • Mengshi Yu,
  • Zhengdao Xie,
  • Hailin Peng,
  • Xuming Zou,
  • Xinran Wang,
  • Ru Huang,
  • Ming He

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-53268-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 15, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Abstract Reconfigurable phototransistors featuring bipolar photoresponses are favorable for manipulating high-performance neuromorphic vision sensory. Here, we present a momentum-conserved reconfigurable phototransistor based on the van der Waals heterojunction between methylammonium lead iodide perovskite and two-dimensional Bi2O2Se semiconductor, which exhibits a synergistic interplay of interband hot-carrier transitions and reconfigurable heterointerface band alignments, eventually achieving the ultrahigh bipolar optoelectronic performances with the photoresponsivity of 6×107 AW−1, accompanied by the specific detectivity of 5.2×1011 Jones, and the dynamic range of 110 dB. Moreover, A 3×3 heterotransistor array is fabricated to perform in-sensor analog multiply-accumulate operations even under the challenging dim illumination of 0.1 μWcm−2 that comparable to natural moonlight. The reconfigurable heterotransistor array can be further adopted to enhance the traffic-light detection under dim-light conditions. Our advancement in momentum-conserved reconfigurable heterotransistor signifies a leap forward in real-time, energy-efficient, and low-light image processing for neuromorphic vision sensors.