Artificially Intelligent Tactile Ferroelectric Skin

Kyuho Lee, Seonghoon Jang, Kang Lib Kim, Min Koo, Chanho Park, Seokyeong Lee, Junseok Lee, Gunuk Wang, Cheolmin Park

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Abstract

Lightweight and flexible tactile learning machines can simultaneously detect, synaptically memorize, and subsequently learn from external stimuli acquired from the skin. This type of technology holds great interest due to its potential applications in emerging wearable and human-interactive artificially intelligent neuromorphic electronics. In this study, an integrated artificially intelligent tactile learning electronic skin (e-skin) based on arrays of ferroelectric-gate field-effect transistors with dome-shape tactile top-gates, which can simultaneously sense and learn from a variety of tactile information, is introduced. To test the e-skin, tactile pressure is applied to a dome-shaped top-gate that measures ferroelectric remnant polarization in a gate insulator. This results in analog conductance modulation that is dependent upon both the number and magnitude of input pressure-spikes, thus mimicking diverse tactile and essential synaptic functions. Specifically, the device exhibits excellent cycling stability between long-term potentiation and depression over the course of 10 000 continuous input pulses. Additionally, it has a low variability of only 3.18%, resulting in high-performance and robust tactile perception learning. The 4 × 4 device array is also able to recognize different handwritten patterns using 2-dimensional spatial learning and recognition, and this is successfully demonstrated with a high degree accuracy of 99.66%, even after considering 10% noise.

Original languageEnglish
Article number2001662
JournalAdvanced Science
Volume7
Issue number22
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2020 Nov 18

Keywords

  • artificial tactile learning electronic-skin
  • ferroelectric artificial synapses
  • ferroelectric-gate field-effect transistor sensing memory
  • tactile sensory synapses
  • wearable neuromorphic electronic devices

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Medicine (miscellaneous)
  • Chemical Engineering(all)
  • Materials Science(all)
  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (miscellaneous)
  • Engineering(all)
  • Physics and Astronomy(all)

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