Electrical conductance tuning and bistable switching in poly(N-vinylcarbazole)-Carbon nanotube composite films

ACS Nano

Volumn 3, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1929-1937

  Liu, Gang ^a   Ling, Qi Dan ^a   Teo, Eric Yeow Hwee ^b   Zhu, Chun Xiang ^b   Chan, D Siu Hung ^b   Neoh, Koon Gee ^a   Kang, En Tang ^a  

^a Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering ^*  (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Carbon nanotube; Charge trapping; Conductance switching; Memory; PVK; Rewritable; WORM

Indexed keywords

CONDUCTANCE SWITCHING; MEMORY; PVK; REWRITABLE; WORM;

CARBON FILMS; CARBON NANOTUBES; CHARGE TRAPPING; CURRENT VOLTAGE CHARACTERISTICS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTANCE; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; PHASE TRANSITIONS; SWITCHING; SWITCHING SYSTEMS; TIN;

COMPOSITE FILMS;

EID: 68649117477     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn900319q     Document Type: Article

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