Temperature-dependent resistive switching in bulk silver nanowire-polystyrene composites

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 114, Issue 50, 2010, Pages 22106-22112

  White, Sadie I ^a   Vora, Patrick M ^b   Kikkawa, James M ^b   Fischer, John E ^a   Winey, Karen I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRICAL PERCOLATION; ELECTRICAL PERCOLATION THRESHOLD; ELECTROFORMATIONS; POLYSTYRENE COMPOSITES; RESISTIVE SWITCHING; RESISTIVE SWITCHING BEHAVIORS; SAMPLE COMPOSITION; SILVER NANOWIRES; SWITCHING FIELD; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENT;

ELECTRIC RESISTANCE MEASUREMENT; NANOWIRES; PERCOLATION (FLUIDS); POLYMER BLENDS; POLYSTYRENES; SOLVENTS; SWITCHING; SWITCHING SYSTEMS;

ELECTRIC WIRE;

EID: 79951659071     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp108191q     Document Type: Article

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