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Measurements with a lateral spin pumping device architecture suggest that long spin diffusion lengths of more than 1 μm are possible in conjugated polymer systems that have a sufficiently high spin density.
By integrating two-dimensional MoS2 transistors with metal-oxide resistive random-access memories, two-transistor–two-resistor ternary content-addressable memory cells can be created, which could be used to search large amounts of data in parallel.
A reinforcement learning algorithm can be implemented on a hybrid analogue–digital platform based on memristive arrays for parallel and energy-efficient in situ training.
A transparent electronic skin, composed of an elastomer and an ionic liquid, can autonomously self-heal in both dry and wet conditions due to ion–dipole interactions.
Amorphous silicon compositions, which are doped with oxygen or nitrogen and sandwiched between metal electrodes, can be used to create purely electronic memristors with switching capabilities that are fast, uniform, durable, multi-state and low power.
A lateral heterojunction with diode-like electrical transport can be created in a homogeneous MoS2 monolayer by using a substrate in which one segment is made from an amorphous fluoropolymer and another segment from hexagonal boron nitride.
Thermal scanning probe lithography can be used to pattern metal electrodes in direct contact with monolayer MoS2, creating field-effect transistors that exhibit vanishing Schottky barrier heights, high on/off ratios of 1010, no hysteresis, and subthreshold swings as low as 64 mV per decade.
Nonlinear buckling processes can be used to transform thin films of piezoelectric polymers into sophisticated 3D piezoelectric microsystems with applications in energy harvesting, multifunctional sensing and bio-integrated devices.
Perfect orthogonality can be imposed on wireless communication channels by using reconfigurable metasurfaces to tune the disorder of their propagation environment.