Organic memory device fabricated through solution processing

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 93, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1287-1296

  Ouyang, Jianyong ^a   Chu, Chih Wei ^a   Tseng, Ricky Jia Hung ^a   Prakash, Ankita ^a   Yang, Yang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Charge transfer; Electrical bistable; Memory; Metal nanoparticles; Organic; Polymer

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS; CHARGE TRANSFER; ELECTRIC FIELDS; GOLD; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; PLASTIC FILMS;

ELECTRICAL BISTABLE; METAL NANOPARTICLES; ORGANIC MEMORY DEVICES; SOLUTION PROCESSING;

SEMICONDUCTING ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

EID: 23144455629     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPROC.2005.851235     Document Type: Conference Paper

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