US Patent Issued to University of Central Florida Research Foundation on Aug. 19 for "Optoelectronic synapse based on perovskite quantum dot-carbon nanotube for neuromorphic computing" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,393,834, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to University of Central Florida Research Foundation Inc (Orlando, Fla.).

"Optoelectronic synapse based on perovskite quantum dot-carbon nanotube for neuromorphic computing" was invented by Jayan Thomas (Orlando, Fla.), Jinxin Li (Orlando, Fla.) and Priyanka Dwivedi (Orlando, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photodetector device to act as an artificial photonic synapse includes a substrate and a perovskite quantum dot-multiwall carbon nanotube (PQD-MWCNT) hybrid material. The PQD-MWCNT hybrid material channel is disposed on the substrate between a first electrode and a second electrode and fo...