Two-terminal carbon nanotube programmable devices for adaptive architectures

Carbon nanotube field-effect transistors functionalized with photoconducting polymer act as very efficient and non-volatile two-terminal programmable devices (see figure). Their optoelectronic programmability allows compensating for the critical issue of variability among as-built devices in prototype multi-input circuits, an important milestone toward the realistic use of nano-objects in complex functional circuits such as neuromorphic adaptive nanoarchitectures.