Transistor‐Level Activation Functions via Two‐Gate Designs: From Analog Sigmoid and Gaussian Control to Real‐Time Hardware Demonstrations (Adv. Mater. 21/2026)

Key Points

• The central aim is to develop transistor-level activation functions to enhance real-time computing capabilities.
• Developed two-gate analog transistors with Gaussian and sigmoid functions.
• Conducted hardware demonstrations for iris classification.
• Performed analog feature extraction to facilitate immediate inference.
• Achieved real-time iris classification with the developed transistors.
• Successfully showcased hardware-level inference using analog computing techniques.

Abstract