From silicon to organic nanoparticle memory devices

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

Volumn 367, Issue 1905, 2009, Pages 4169-4179

  Tsoukalas, D ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Chemical self assembly; Langmuir blodgett; Nanoparticle memories; Organic dielectrics

Indexed keywords

FLASH MEMORY; HYBRID MATERIALS; SELF ASSEMBLY;

CURRENT STATUS; FLASH MEMORY DEVICES; HYBRID TECHNOLOGY; LANGMUIR-BLODGETT; MEMORY DEVICE; OPERATIONAL PRINCIPLES; ORGANIC DIELECTRICS; ORGANIC MATERIALS; ORGANIC NANOPARTICLES; SILICON TECHNOLOGIES;

NANOPARTICLES;

EID: 70350675457     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2008.0280     Document Type: Article

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