Weihao Zhang, Songchen Ma, Xinglong Ji, Xue Liu, Yuqing Cong, Luping Shi
{"title":"The development of general-purpose brain-inspired computing","authors":"Weihao Zhang, Songchen Ma, Xinglong Ji, Xue Liu, Yuqing Cong, Luping Shi","doi":"10.1038/s41928-024-01277-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41928-024-01277-y","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Brain-inspired computing uses insights from neuroscience to develop more efficient computing systems. The approach is of use in a broad range of applications—from neural simulation to intelligent computing—and could potentially be used to create a general-purpose computing infrastructure. Here we explore the development of general-purpose brain-inspired computing. We examine the hardware and software that have so far been used to create brain-inspired computing systems. We then consider the potential of combining approaches from neuroscience and computer science to build general-purpose brain-inspired computing systems, highlighting three areas: temporal, spatial and spatiotemporal capabilities; approximate computing and precise computing; and control flow and data flow. Finally, we discuss initiatives that will be needed to develop general-purpose brain-inspired computing, highlighting three potential strategies: application-level pattern generalization, hardware-level structural generalization and software-level systematic generalization.</p>","PeriodicalId":19064,"journal":{"name":"Nature Electronics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":34.3,"publicationDate":"2024-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142594426","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mayukh Das, Dipanjan Sen, Najam U Sakib, Harikrishnan Ravichandran, Yongwen Sun, Zhiyu Zhang, Subir Ghosh, Pranavram Venkatram, Shiva Subbulakshmi Radhakrishnan, Alexander Sredenschek, Zhuohang Yu, Kalyan Jyoti Sarkar, Muhtasim Ul Karim Sadaf, Kalaiarasan Meganathan, Andrew Pannone, Ying Han, David Emanuel Sanchez, Divya Somvanshi, Zdenek Sofer, Mauricio Terrones, Yang Yang, Saptarshi Das
{"title":"High-performance p-type field-effect transistors using substitutional doping and thickness control of two-dimensional materials","authors":"Mayukh Das, Dipanjan Sen, Najam U Sakib, Harikrishnan Ravichandran, Yongwen Sun, Zhiyu Zhang, Subir Ghosh, Pranavram Venkatram, Shiva Subbulakshmi Radhakrishnan, Alexander Sredenschek, Zhuohang Yu, Kalyan Jyoti Sarkar, Muhtasim Ul Karim Sadaf, Kalaiarasan Meganathan, Andrew Pannone, Ying Han, David Emanuel Sanchez, Divya Somvanshi, Zdenek Sofer, Mauricio Terrones, Yang Yang, Saptarshi Das","doi":"10.1038/s41928-024-01265-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41928-024-01265-2","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In silicon field-effect transistors (FETs), degenerate doping of the channel beneath the source and drain regions is used to create high-performance n- and p-type devices by reducing the contact resistance. Two-dimensional semiconductors have, in contrast, relied on metal-work-function engineering. This approach has led to the development of effective n-type 2D FETs due to the Fermi-level pinning occurring near the conduction band, but it is challenging with p-type FETs. Here we show that the degenerate p-type doping of molybdenum diselenide and tungsten diselenide—achieved through substitutional doping with vanadium, niobium and tantalum—can reduce the contact resistance to as low as 95 Ω µm in multilayers. This, though, comes at the cost of poor electrostatic control, and we find that the doping effectiveness—and its impact on electrostatic control—is reduced in thinner layers due to strong quantum confinement effects. We, therefore, develop a high-performance p-type 2D molybdenum diselenide FET using a layer-by-layer thinning method to create a device with thin layers at the channel and thick doped layers at the contact regions.</p>","PeriodicalId":19064,"journal":{"name":"Nature Electronics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":34.3,"publicationDate":"2024-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142588495","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Haozhe Yang, Marco Gobbi, Franz Herling, Van Tuong Pham, Francesco Calavalle, Beatriz Martín-García, Albert Fert, Luis E. Hueso, Fèlix Casanova
{"title":"A seamless graphene spin valve based on proximity to van der Waals magnet Cr2Ge2Te6","authors":"Haozhe Yang, Marco Gobbi, Franz Herling, Van Tuong Pham, Francesco Calavalle, Beatriz Martín-García, Albert Fert, Luis E. Hueso, Fèlix Casanova","doi":"10.1038/s41928-024-01267-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41928-024-01267-0","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Pristine graphene is potentially an ideal medium for transporting spin information. Proximity effects—where a neighbouring material is used to alter the properties of a material in adjacent (or proximitized) regions—can also be used in graphene to generate and detect spins by acquiring spin–orbit coupling or magnetic exchange coupling. However, the development of seamless spintronic devices that are based only on proximity effects remains challenging. Here we report a two-dimensional graphene spin valve that is enabled by proximity to the van der Waals magnet Cr<sub>2</sub>Ge<sub>2</sub>Te<sub>6</sub>. Spin precession measurements show that the graphene acquires both spin–orbit coupling and magnetic exchange coupling when interfaced with the Cr<sub>2</sub>Ge<sub>2</sub>Te<sub>6</sub>. This leads to spin generation by both electrical spin injection and the spin Hall effect, while retaining spin transport. The simultaneous presence of spin–orbit coupling and magnetic exchange coupling also leads to a sizeable anomalous Hall effect.</p>","PeriodicalId":19064,"journal":{"name":"Nature Electronics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":34.3,"publicationDate":"2024-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142588504","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A single-transducer echomyography system for monitoring muscle activity","authors":"","doi":"10.1038/s41928-024-01273-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41928-024-01273-2","url":null,"abstract":"A wearable single-transducer echomyography system has been developed that can be used to track and identify different breathing patterns by detecting diaphragm activity with sub-millimetre resolution. Moreover, hand gestures can be recognized from the single-channel radiofrequency ultrasound signals detected from muscles in the forearm, using a customized deep learning algorithm.","PeriodicalId":19064,"journal":{"name":"Nature Electronics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":34.3,"publicationDate":"2024-11-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142580711","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Scientific challenges in governing military AI","authors":"WooJung Jon","doi":"10.1038/s41928-024-01275-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41928-024-01275-0","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The emergence of artificial intelligence (AI) in military operations is revolutionizing modern warfare — a development that demands robust governance frameworks to mitigate the risks. On 9–10 September 2024, at the Responsible AI in the Military Domain (REAIM) meeting in Seoul, South Korea, a notable advance in military AI governance was achieved. The meeting, which was co-hosted by South Korea, the Netherlands, Singapore, Kenya and the United Kingdom, concluded with the endorsement of the ‘Blueprint for Action’<sup>1</sup> by 61 countries, including the United States, Germany, France and Japan. China, who sent a government representative to the summit, did not support the document. After the conclusion of the meeting, two more countries were added, bringing the current number of supporting countries to 63.</p><p>The blueprint offers a comprehensive framework addressing the full spectrum of AI applications in military contexts. However, translating these high-level principles into actionable scientific and technological measures presents considerable challenges that require urgent attention from the global scientific community.</p>","PeriodicalId":19064,"journal":{"name":"Nature Electronics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":34.3,"publicationDate":"2024-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142574576","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yanjie Shao, Marco Pala, Hao Tang, Baoming Wang, Ju Li, David Esseni, Jesús A. del Alamo
{"title":"Scaled vertical-nanowire heterojunction tunnelling transistors with extreme quantum confinement","authors":"Yanjie Shao, Marco Pala, Hao Tang, Baoming Wang, Ju Li, David Esseni, Jesús A. del Alamo","doi":"10.1038/s41928-024-01279-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41928-024-01279-w","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The development of data-centric computing requires new energy-efficient electronics that can overcome the fundamental limitations of conventional silicon transistors. A range of novel transistor concepts have been explored, but an approach that can simultaneously offer high drive current and steep slope switching while delivering the necessary scaling in footprint is still lacking. Here, we report scaled vertical-nanowire heterojunction tunnelling transistors that are based on the broken-band GaSb/InAs system. The devices offer a drive current of 300 µA µm<sup>−1</sup> and a sub-60 mV dec<sup>−1</sup> switching slope at an operating voltage of 0.3 V. The approach relies on extreme quantum confinement at the tunnelling junction and is based on an interface-pinned energy band alignment at the tunnelling heterojunction under strong quantization.</p>","PeriodicalId":19064,"journal":{"name":"Nature Electronics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":34.3,"publicationDate":"2024-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142574582","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cezar Zota, Alberto Ferraris, Eunjung Cha, Mridula Prathapan, Peter Mueller, Effendi Leobandung
{"title":"Energy-efficient computing at cryogenic temperatures","authors":"Cezar Zota, Alberto Ferraris, Eunjung Cha, Mridula Prathapan, Peter Mueller, Effendi Leobandung","doi":"10.1038/s41928-024-01278-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41928-024-01278-x","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Increasing demand for data-intense computing applications—such as artificial intelligence, large language models and high-performance computing—has created a need for computing infrastructure that can handle large workloads with high energy efficiency. Advances in silicon-based complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor technology have led to more efficient field-effect transistors, but these devices are fundamentally limited by thermionic injection. As a result, on–off switching efficiency cannot be improved beyond 60 mV of drive voltage per decade of current. Operation of electronics at cryogenic temperatures, such as 77 K, can overcome this limit and provide performance improvements. Here we explore the development of computing at cryogenic temperatures. We examine the changes in electrical transistor and material properties observed at low temperatures, and highlight the need for further studies on cryogenic noise, reliability, variability and thermal management. We also consider the potential performance improvements at the device and circuit level of such technology.</p>","PeriodicalId":19064,"journal":{"name":"Nature Electronics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":34.3,"publicationDate":"2024-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142556130","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Xiaoxiang Gao, Xiangjun Chen, Muyang Lin, Wentong Yue, Hongjie Hu, Siyu Qin, Fangao Zhang, Zhiyuan Lou, Lu Yin, Hao Huang, Sai Zhou, Yizhou Bian, Xinyi Yang, Yangzhi Zhu, Jing Mu, Xinyu Wang, Geonho Park, Chengchangfeng Lu, Ruotao Wang, Ray S. Wu, Joseph Wang, Jinghong Li, Sheng Xu
{"title":"A wearable echomyography system based on a single transducer","authors":"Xiaoxiang Gao, Xiangjun Chen, Muyang Lin, Wentong Yue, Hongjie Hu, Siyu Qin, Fangao Zhang, Zhiyuan Lou, Lu Yin, Hao Huang, Sai Zhou, Yizhou Bian, Xinyi Yang, Yangzhi Zhu, Jing Mu, Xinyu Wang, Geonho Park, Chengchangfeng Lu, Ruotao Wang, Ray S. Wu, Joseph Wang, Jinghong Li, Sheng Xu","doi":"10.1038/s41928-024-01271-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41928-024-01271-4","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Wearable electromyography devices can detect muscular activity for health monitoring and body motion tracking, but this approach is limited by weak and stochastic signals with a low spatial resolution. Alternatively, echomyography can detect muscle movement using ultrasound waves, but typically relies on complex transducer arrays, which are bulky, have high power consumption and can limit user mobility. Here we report a fully integrated wearable echomyography system that consists of a customized single transducer, a wireless circuit for data processing and an on-board battery for power. The system can be attached to the skin and provides accurate long-term wireless monitoring of muscles. To illustrate its capabilities, we use this system to detect the activity of the diaphragm, which allows the recognition of different breathing modes. We also develop a deep learning algorithm to correlate the single-transducer radio-frequency data from forearm muscles with hand gestures to accurately and continuously track 13 hand joints with a mean error of only 7.9°.</p>","PeriodicalId":19064,"journal":{"name":"Nature Electronics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":34.3,"publicationDate":"2024-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142556131","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Siwen Zhao, Jinqiang Huang, Valentin Crépel, Zhiren Xiong, Xingguang Wu, Tongyao Zhang, Hanwen Wang, Xiangyan Han, Zhengyu Li, Chuanying Xi, Senyang Pan, Zhaosheng Wang, Guangli Kuang, Jun Luo, Qinxin Shen, Jie Yang, Rui Zhou, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Benjamin Sacépé, Jing Zhang, Ning Wang, Jianming Lu, Nicolas Regnault, Zheng Vitto Han
{"title":"Fractional quantum Hall phases in high-mobility n-type molybdenum disulfide transistors","authors":"Siwen Zhao, Jinqiang Huang, Valentin Crépel, Zhiren Xiong, Xingguang Wu, Tongyao Zhang, Hanwen Wang, Xiangyan Han, Zhengyu Li, Chuanying Xi, Senyang Pan, Zhaosheng Wang, Guangli Kuang, Jun Luo, Qinxin Shen, Jie Yang, Rui Zhou, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Benjamin Sacépé, Jing Zhang, Ning Wang, Jianming Lu, Nicolas Regnault, Zheng Vitto Han","doi":"10.1038/s41928-024-01274-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41928-024-01274-1","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Transistors based on semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenides can, in theory, offer high carrier mobilities, strong spin–orbit coupling and inherently strong electronic interactions at the quantum ground states. This makes them well suited for use in nanoelectronics at low temperatures. However, creating robust ohmic contacts to transition metal dichalcogenide layers at cryogenic temperatures is difficult. As a result, it is not possible to reach the quantum limit at which the Fermi level is close to the band edge and thus probe electron correlations in the fractionally filled Landau-level regime. Here we show that ohmic contacts to n-type molybdenum disulfide can be created over a temperature range from millikelvins to 300 K using a window-contacted technique. We observe field-effect mobilities of over 100,000 cm<sup>2</sup> V<sup>−1</sup> s<sup>−1</sup> and quantum mobilities of over 3,000 cm<sup>2</sup> V<sup>−1</sup> s<sup>−1</sup> in the conduction band at low temperatures. We also report evidence for fractional quantum Hall states at filling fractions of 4/5 and 2/5 in the lowest Landau levels of bilayer molybdenum disulfide.</p>","PeriodicalId":19064,"journal":{"name":"Nature Electronics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":34.3,"publicationDate":"2024-10-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142536908","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Shixuan Wang, Qiang Fu, Ting Zheng, Xu Han, Hao Wang, Tao Zhou, Jing Liu, Tianqi Liu, Yuwei Zhang, Kaiqi Chen, Qixing Wang, Zhexing Duan, Xin Zhou, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Jiaxu Yan, Yuan Huang, Yuwei Xiong, Joel K. W. Yang, Zhenliang Hu, Tao Xu, Litao Sun, Jinhua Hong, Yujie Zheng, Yumeng You, Qi Zhang, Junpeng Lu, Zhenhua Ni
{"title":"Light-emitting diodes based on intercalated transition metal dichalcogenides with suppressed efficiency roll-off at high generation rates","authors":"Shixuan Wang, Qiang Fu, Ting Zheng, Xu Han, Hao Wang, Tao Zhou, Jing Liu, Tianqi Liu, Yuwei Zhang, Kaiqi Chen, Qixing Wang, Zhexing Duan, Xin Zhou, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Jiaxu Yan, Yuan Huang, Yuwei Xiong, Joel K. W. Yang, Zhenliang Hu, Tao Xu, Litao Sun, Jinhua Hong, Yujie Zheng, Yumeng You, Qi Zhang, Junpeng Lu, Zhenhua Ni","doi":"10.1038/s41928-024-01264-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41928-024-01264-3","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The capabilities of light-emitting diodes (LEDs) based on two-dimensional materials are restricted by efficiency roll-off, which is induced by exciton–exciton annihilation, at high current densities. Dielectric or strain engineering can be used to reduce exciton–exciton annihilation rates in monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides, but achieving electroluminescence in two-dimensional LEDs without efficiency roll-off is challenging. Here we describe pulsed LEDs that are based on intercalated transition metal dichalcogenides and offer suppressed exciton–exciton annihilation at high exciton generation rates. We intercalate oxygen plasma into few-layer molybdenum disulfide (MoS<sub>2</sub>) and tungsten disulfide (WS<sub>2</sub>) to create LEDs with a suppressed efficiency roll-off in both photo-excitation and electro-injection luminescence at all exciton densities up to around 10<sup>20</sup> cm<sup>−2</sup> s<sup>−1</sup>. We attribute this suppression to a reduced exciton Bohr radius and exciton diffusion coefficient, as extracted from optical spectroscopy measurements. LEDs based on intercalated MoS<sub>2</sub> and WS<sub>2</sub> operate at maximum external quantum efficiencies of 0.02% and 0.78%, respectively, at a generation rate of around 10<sup>20</sup> cm<sup>−2</sup> s<sup>−1</sup>.</p>","PeriodicalId":19064,"journal":{"name":"Nature Electronics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":34.3,"publicationDate":"2024-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142519266","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}