{"id":247140,"date":"2026-11-11T23:26:33","date_gmt":"2026-11-12T05:26:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/11\/iii-nitride-device-integrates-sensing-and-memory-for-in-sensor-computing"},"modified":"2026-11-11T23:26:33","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T05:26:33","slug":"iii-nitride-device-integrates-sensing-and-memory-for-in-sensor-computing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/11\/iii-nitride-device-integrates-sensing-and-memory-for-in-sensor-computing","title":{"rendered":"III-nitride device integrates sensing and memory for in-sensor computing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A new <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41563-026-02780-7\" target=\"_blank\">study<\/a> published in <i>Nature Materials<\/i> reports that researchers have developed an aluminum gallium nitride device that combines light detection, memory and basic processing by controlling charge at polarization interfaces. The device can detect light at the nanowatt-per-square-centimeter level and operate stably at temperatures up to 300\u00b0C.<\/p>\n<p>The study was led by researchers from the Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Peking University, East China Normal University, the Shanghai Institute of Technical Physics of CAS and Zhejiang University.<\/p>\n<p>In-sensor computing reduces the need to transfer raw data between separate detectors, memory units and processors. Existing devices often rely on defects to store charge, which can consume photogenerated carriers and weaken the response. Other approaches use stacked two-dimensional materials that remain difficult to manufacture over large areas. Group III nitride semiconductors offer an alternative because their material quality, fabrication processes and industrial supply chain are well established.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study published in Nature Materials reports that researchers have developed an aluminum gallium nitride device that combines light detection, memory and basic processing by controlling charge at polarization interfaces. The device can detect light at the nanowatt-per-square-centimeter level and operate stably at temperatures up to 300\u00b0C. The study was led by researchers from [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-247140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}