Carrier transport mechanism in a nanoparticle-incorporated organic bistable memory device

IEEE Electron Device Letters

Volumn 28, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 569-571

  Lin, Heng Tien ^a,b   Pei, Zingway ^b   Chan, Yi Jen ^a,b  

^a INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Mechanism; Organic memory; Space charge limited current (SCLC)

Indexed keywords

ORGANIC MEMEORY; SPACE-CHARGE-LIMITED CURRENT;

DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; ELECTRIC CONDUCTANCE; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRIC SPACE CHARGE; NANOPARTICLES;

CARRIER TRANSPORT;

EID: 34447286233     PISSN: 07413106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LED.2007.899668     Document Type: Article

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