In‐sensor reservoir computing for biometric identification based on <scp>MoTe₂</scp>/<scp>BaTiO₃</scp> optical synapses

Abstract The artificial intelligence era has witnessed a surge of demand in detection and recognition of biometric information, with applications from financial services to information security. However, the physical separation of sensing, memory, and computational units in traditional biometric systems introduces severe decision latency and operational power consumption. Herein, an in‐sensor reservoir computing (RC) system based on MoTe 2 /BaTiO 3 optical synapses is proposed to detect and recognize the faces and fingerprints information. In optical operation mode, the device exhibits low energy consumption of 41.2 pJ, long retention time of 3 × 10 4 s, high endurance of 10 4 switching cycles, and multifunctional sensing‐memory‐computing visual simulations. The light intensity‐dependent optical sensing and multilevel optical storage properties are exploited to achieve sunburned eye simulation and image memory functions. These nonlinear, multi‐state, short‐term storage, and long‐term memory characteristics make MoTe 2 /BaTiO 3 optical synapses a suitable reservoir layer and readout layer, with short‐term properties to project complicated input features into high‐dimensional output features, and long‐term properties to be used as a readout layer, thus further building an in‐sensor RC system for face and fingerprint recognition. Under the 40% Gaussian noise environment, the system achieves 91.73% recognition accuracy for face and 97.50% for fingerprint images, and experimental verification is carried out, which shows potential in practical applications. These results provide a strategy for constructing a high‐performance in‐sensor RC system for high‐accuracy biometric identification. image