Organic non-volatile memories from ferroelectric phase-separated blends

Nature Materials

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 547-550

  Asadi, Kamal ^a   De Leeuw, Dago M ^a,b   De Boer, Bert ^a   Blom, Paul W M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLENDING; DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; DIGITAL STORAGE; ELECTRIC SWITCHES; FERROELECTRICITY; LIGHT EMITTING DIODES; MEMORY ARCHITECTURE; POLARIZATION; SEMICONDUCTING POLYMERS;

ELECTRICALLY TUNABLE; FERROELECTRIC CAPACITORS; FERROELECTRIC POLARIZATION; FERROELECTRIC POLYMERS; INTEGRATED SOLUTIONS; POLARIZATION CHARGES; RESISTIVE SWITCHING; SEMICONDUCTOR METALS;

FERROELECTRIC MATERIALS;

EID: 45849115098     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat2207     Document Type: Article

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