In-situ artificial retina with all-in-one reconfigurable photomemristor networks

Abstract

Despite that in-sensor processing has been proposed to remove the latency and energy consumption during the inevitable data transfer between spatial-separated sensors, memories and processors in traditional computer vision, its hardware implementation for artificial neural networks (ANNs) with all-in-one device arrays remains a challenge, especially for organic-based ANNs. With the advantages of biocompatibility, low cost, easy fabrication and flexibility, here we implement a self-powered in-sensor ANN using molecular ferroelectric (MF)-based photomemristor arrays. Tunable ferroelectric depolarization was intentionally introduced into the ANN, which enables reconfigurable conductance and photoresponse. Treating photoresponsivity as synaptic weight, the MF-based in-sensor ANN can operate analog convolutional computation, and successfully conduct perception and recognition of white-light letter images in experiments, with low processing energy consumption. Handwritten Chinese digits are also recognized and regressed by a large-scale array, demonstrating its scalability and potential for low-power processing and the applications in MF-based in-situ artificial retina.