Advancements in organic nonvolatile memory devices

Chinese Science Bulletin

Volumn 56, Issue 30, 2011, Pages 3178-3190

  Liu, Xin ^a,b   Ji, ZhuoYu ^a   Liu, Ming ^a   Shang, LiWei ^a   Li, DongMei ^a   Dai, YueHua ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF MICROELECTRONICS   (China)

^b ANHUI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

integration; multilevel effect; organic memory; organic thin film transistors; two terminal memory devices

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053445483     PISSN: 10016538     EISSN: 18619541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11434-011-4695-5     Document Type: Review

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