Breaking the Trade-Off Between Polymer Dielectric Constant and Loss via Aluminum Oxo Macrocycle Dopants for High-Performance Neuromorphic Electronics

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The dielectric layer is crucial in regulating the overall performance of field-effect transistors (FETs), the key component in central processing units, sensors, and displays. Despite considerable efforts being devoted to developing high-permittivity (k) dielectrics, limited progress is made due to the inherent trade-off between dielectric constant and loss. Here, a solution is presented by designing a monodispersed disk-shaped Ce-Al-O-macrocycle as a dopant in polymer dielectrics. The molecule features a central Ce(III) core connected with eight Al atoms through sixteen bridging hydroxyls and eight 3-aminophenyl peripheries. The incorporation of this macrocycle in polymer dielectrics results in an up to sevenfold increase in dielectric constants and up to 89% reduction in dielectric loss at low frequencies. Moreover, the leakage-current densities decrease, and the breakdown strengths are improved by 63%. Relying on the above merits, FETs bearing cluster-doped polymer dielectrics give near three-orders source-drain current increments while maintaining low-level leakage/off currents, resulting in much higher charge-carrier mobilities (up to 2.45 cm2  V-1  s-1 ) and on/off ratios. This cluster-doping strategy is generalizable and shows great promise for ultralow-power photoelectric synapses and neuromorphic retinas. This work successfully breaks the trade-off between dielectric constant and loss and offers a unique design for polymer composite dielectrics.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:35

Enthalten in:

Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.) - 35(2023), 49 vom: 02. Dez., Seite e2306260

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Chen, Xiaowei [VerfasserIn]
Sun, Yi-Fan [VerfasserIn]
Wu, Xiaosong [VerfasserIn]
Shi, Shuhui [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Zhongrui [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Jian [VerfasserIn]
Fang, Wei-Hui [VerfasserIn]
Huang, Weiguo [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Aluminum oxo macrocycles
Journal Article
Neuromorphic retinas
Polymer dielectrics
Trade-off between dielectric constant and loss
Ultralow-power photoelectric synapses

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Date Revised 08.12.2023

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.1002/adma.202306260

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM361580290