Non-volatile organic memory with sub-millimetre bending radius

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Kim, Richard Hahnkee ^a   Kim, Hae Jin ^a   Bae, Insung ^a   Hwang, Sun Kak ^a   Velusamy, Dhinesh Babu ^a   Cho, Suk Man ^a   Takaishi, Kazuto ^b   Muto, Tsuyoshi ^b   Hashizume, Daisuke ^c   Uchiyama, Masanobu ^b   André, Pascal ^b   Mathevet, Fabrice ^d   Heinrich, Benoit ^e   Aoyama, Tetsuya ^b   Kim, Dae Eun ^a   Lee, Hyungsuk ^a   Ribierre, Jean Charles ^b,f   Park, Cheolmin ^a  

^a Yonsei University   (South Korea)

^b RIKEN   (Japan)

^c RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science   (Japan)

^d Université Pierre et Marie Curie   (France)

^e UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^f Ewha Womans University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ETHYLENE; POLY(VINYLIDENE FLUORIDE COTRIFLUOROETHYLENE); THIOPHENE DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; INSULATION; IRON; MECHANICAL PROPERTY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY;

ARTICLE; ELECTRONICS; FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTOR; HYSTERESIS; INSULATOR ELEMENT; MECHANICAL STRESS; SEMICONDUCTOR;

EID: 84906702995     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms4583     Document Type: Article

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