Room-temperature negative differential resistance in polymer tunnel diodes using a thin oxide layer and demonstration of threshold logic

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 87, Issue 20, 2005, Pages 1-3

  Yoon, Woo Jun ^a   Chung, Sung Yong ^a   Berger, Paul R ^a   Asar, Sita M ^b  

^a Ohio State University   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MOLECULAR ELECTRONICS; MOLECULAR ORBITALS; MOLECULARLY-SIZED JUNCTIONS; NEGATIVE DIFFERENTIAL RESISTANCE (NDR);

ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; ORGANIC POLYMERS; QUANTUM ELECTRONICS; SEMICONDUCTING ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTOR JUNCTIONS; THIN FILMS; THRESHOLD LOGIC;

TUNNEL DIODES;

EID: 27744439500     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2130395     Document Type: Article

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