Programmable polymer thin film and non-volatile memory device

Nature Materials

Volumn 3, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 918-922

  Ouyang, Jianyong ^a   Chu, Chih Wei ^a   Szmanda, Charles R ^b   Ma, Liping ^a   Yang, Yang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b ROHM AND HAAS COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARGE TRANSFER; CURRENT VOLTAGE CHARACTERISTICS; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; ELECTRON TUNNELING; EVAPORATION; FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS; LIGHT EMITTING DIODES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; PLASTIC FILMS; POLYSTYRENES; SPIN COATING; THIN FILMS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

8-HYDROXYQUINOLINE (8HQ); NANOPARTICLES; ORGANIC MEMORY DEVICES; PROGRAMMABLE ELECTRICAL BISTABILITY;

DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT;

8 QUINOLINOL; POLYMER; POLYSTYRENE DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ELECTRODE; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INSTRUMENTATION; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY;

ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ELECTRODES; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MATERIALS TESTING; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; OXYQUINOLINE; POLYMERS; POLYSTYRENES;

EID: 10044271110     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat1269     Document Type: Article

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