All-Optical Reconfigurable Electronic Memory in a Graphene/SrTiO3 Heterostructure.

Abstract

Direct optical data coding in an electronic device is meaningful for photonic technology. Herein, we report electronic memory in a graphene/SrTiO3 heterostructure, which presents the all-optical logic operation (encoding and decoding). The underlying physics have been elucidated in which the synergistic effect of surface localization with interface band bending is responsible for optical encoding and decoding in the electronic memory device of the graphene/SrTiO3 heterostructure. Further, we demonstrate a robust retention and synaptic-like processing of optical signals, which may lead to significant applications in neuromorphic imaging sensors.