A Single OLED With Hybrid Synaptic Plasticity Enabling In Situ Neuromorphic Processing and Visualization

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Authors: Peidong Kang, Zhenjia Chen, Chuiying Yang, Shengji Yang, Shiyang Sun, Li J, Xin Ai, Huipeng Chen
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Abstract

As the core interface for human-computer interaction, multitask intelligent display systems face increasingly stringent demands regarding precision and functional integration. However, in existing architectures, light-emitting units only act as passive display terminals. Endowing light-emitting devices with computing capabilities and realizing computing-as-display, thereby reducing transmission overhead and improving display precision, is the key to promoting the further development of this field. Inspired by the human brain, we innovatively report an organic light-emitting diode featuring both long- and short-term synaptic plasticity and synaptic weight-driven electroluminescence. By engineering charge-trapping structures and heterojunction potential wells within a single OLED device, we establish dual-tier synaptic response output channels for information processing, operating independently on second- and millisecond-level timescales under electrical and optical signal modulation, respectively. Following information processing, the processed results are visualized via a globally driven electroluminescence mechanism enabled by synaptic weight modulation. We introduce the Multi-Task Display Fidelity index as a universal metric to quantify the cooperative accuracy between processing and display, achieving a value of 90.86%. Furthermore, the processing-display coupling index of the device surpasses the corresponding index of mainstream CMOS architectures by 67.8%. This work demonstrates the immense potential of hybrid synaptic plasticity OLEDs for multitask intelligent display.

Fields of Study & Subjects

Advanced Memory and Neural Computing Organic Light-Emitting Diodes Research Photochromic and Fluorescence Chemistry

Publication details

Journal / source
Advanced Materials
Publisher
Wiley
Volume
38
Issue
49
Pages
e74244–e74244
Publication date
23 July 2026
Language
EN