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Journal of Semiconductors, Volume. 46, Issue 7, 071701(2025)

Reconfigurable devices based on two-dimensional materials for logic and analog applications

Liutianyi Zhang^1,2, Ping-Heng Tan^1,2、*, and Jiangbin Wu^1,2、**

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¹State Key Laboratory of Semiconductor Physics and Chip Technologies, Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100083, China

²Center of Materials Science and Optoelectronics Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China

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DOI:10.1088/1674-4926/24100005

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