Stretchable elastic synaptic transistors for neurologically integrated soft engineering systems

Hyunseok Shim; Kyoseung Sim; Faheem Ershad; Pinyi Yang; Anish Thukral; Zhoulyu Rao; Hae-Jin Kim; Yanghui Liu; Xu Wang; Guoying Gu; Li Gao; Xinran Wang; Yang Chai; Cunjiang Yu

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Stretchable elastic synaptic transistors for neurologically integrated soft engineering systems

Hyunseok Shim¹,
Kyoseung Sim¹,
Faheem Ershad²,
Pinyi Yang³,
Anish Thukral³,
Zhoulyu Rao¹,
Hae-Jin Kim³,⁴,
Yanghui Liu⁵,
Xu Wang¹,
Guoying Gu⁶,
Li Gao⁷,
Xinran Wang⁸,
Yang Chai ⁵ and
Cunjiang Yu ¹,²,³,⁹,*

¹Materials Science and Engineering Program, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204, USA.
²Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204, USA.
³Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204, USA.
⁴School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Gyeongsang National University, 501, Jinju-daero, Jinju, Gyeongnam 52828, Korea.
⁵Department of Applied Physics, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China.
⁶State Key Laboratory of Mechanical System and Vibration, Robotics Institute, and School of Mechanical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China.
⁷Key Laboratory for Organic Electronics and Information Displays (KLOEID), Institute of Advanced Materials (IAM), and School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, 9 Wenyuan Road, Nanjing 210046, China.
⁸National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, School of Electronic Science and Engineering, Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China.
⁹Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Texas Center for Superconductivity, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204, USA.

↵*Corresponding author. Email: cyu15{at}uh.edu

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Science Advances 11 Oct 2019:
Vol. 5, no. 10, eaax4961
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aax4961

Hyunseok Shim

Materials Science and Engineering Program, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204, USA.

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Kyoseung Sim

Materials Science and Engineering Program, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204, USA.

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Faheem Ershad

Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204, USA.

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Pinyi Yang

Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204, USA.

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Anish Thukral

Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204, USA.

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Zhoulyu Rao

Materials Science and Engineering Program, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204, USA.

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Hae-Jin Kim

Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204, USA.

School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Gyeongsang National University, 501, Jinju-daero, Jinju, Gyeongnam 52828, Korea.

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Yanghui Liu

Department of Applied Physics, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China.

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Xu Wang

Materials Science and Engineering Program, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204, USA.

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Guoying Gu

State Key Laboratory of Mechanical System and Vibration, Robotics Institute, and School of Mechanical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China.

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Li Gao

Key Laboratory for Organic Electronics and Information Displays (KLOEID), Institute of Advanced Materials (IAM), and School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, 9 Wenyuan Road, Nanjing 210046, China.

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Xinran Wang

National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, School of Electronic Science and Engineering, Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China.

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Yang Chai

Department of Applied Physics, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China.

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Cunjiang Yu

Materials Science and Engineering Program, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204, USA.

Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204, USA.

Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204, USA.

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Texas Center for Superconductivity, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204, USA.

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