[paper] An ambipolar homojunction with options

Yanqing Wu

An ambipolar homojunction with options

Nat Electron (2020)

Published 13 July 2020

DOI: 10.1038/s41928-020-0447-3

Circuits capable of reconfigurable logic and neuromorphic functions can be created by exploiting the electronic tunability of two-dimensional tungsten diselenide homojunctions.

Fig: Reconfigurable ambipolar WSe2 homojunction devices and circuits. a, Schematic of a WSe2 homojunction device that consists of two polarity-control embedded gates. b, Using two of these devices, a reconfigurable circuit cell can be created (top) that has a multifunctionality controlled through combinations of gate voltage and drain voltage. The circuit has three input terminals, two of which connect to the polarity gate of one of the devices and the drain of the other device. Using different combinations of the three inputs, seven different Boolean functions can be achieved, including pass, inverter, two-input OR, AND, and borrow-out, as listed in the truth table (bottom). Vds, drain–source voltage; VgA and VgB, gate bias for partial gates A and B, respectively; Vin1, Vin2 and Vin3, input voltages for input terminals 1, 2 and 3, respectively; M1 and M2, homojunction devices 1 and 2, respectively; Vout, output voltage; A, B and C represent logic states of either ‘0’ or ‘1’.