Tristable electrical conductivity switching in a polyfluorene- diphenylpyridine copolymer with pendant carbazole groups

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 367, Issue 1905, 2009, Pages 4203-4214

  Liu, Gang ^a   Liaw, Der Jang ^b   Lee, Wei Yi ^b   Ling, Qi Dan ^a   Zhu, Chun Xiang ^a   Chan, D Siu Hung ^a   Kang, En Tang ^a   Neoh, Koon Gee ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Charge transfer; Conformational ordering; Conjugated copolymer; Tristable switching

Indexed keywords

CHARGE TRANSFER; COPOLYMERIZATION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ION EXCHANGE; MASS TRANSFER; SWITCHING; TIN;

CARBAZOLE GROUPS; CHARGE TRANSFER INTERACTION; CONDUCTANCE SWITCHING; CONFORMATIONAL ORDERING; CONJUGATED COPOLYMER; CONJUGATED COPOLYMERS; CURRENT RATIOS; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; FLUORENYL; INDIUM TIN OXIDE; NON-VOLATILE MEMORIES; ON/OFF CURRENT RATIO; POLYFLUORENES; POLYMER CHAINS; TRISTABLE SWITCHING;

ORGANIC POLYMERS;

EID: 70350630094     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2008.0262     Document Type: Article

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