Organic transistor memory with a charge storage molecular double-floating-gate monolayer

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 7, Issue 18, 2015, Pages 9767-9775

  Tseng, Chiao Wei ^a   Huang, Ding Chi ^b   Tao, Yu Tai ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

double floating gate; flexible field effect transistors; molecular charge traps; organic transistor memory devices; self assembled monolayer

Indexed keywords

CHARGE TRAPPING; DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS; GATES (TRANSISTOR); NONVOLATILE STORAGE; SELF ASSEMBLED MONOLAYERS; TRANSISTORS;

ALKYL CHAIN SPACERS; DEVICE CHARACTERISTICS; FLOATING GATES; MOLECULAR CHARGE; NONVOLATILE MEMORY DEVICES; ORGANIC TRANSISTOR; PHOSPHONIC ACID GROUPS; POLYMERIC SUBSTRATE;

MONOLAYERS;

EID: 84929223587     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b01625     Document Type: Article

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