Organic flexible memristor with reduced operating voltage and high stability by interfacial control of conductive filament growth
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27/02/2019Keywords
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Abstract
Herein, the underlying mechanisms for the growth of conductive filaments (CFs) at a metal–polymer electrolyte interface through ion migration in organic electrochemical metallization (ECM) memristor are presented. It is observed that the free volume of voids (nanopores) in the polymer electrolyte serves as the pathways of metal‐cations whereas the interfacial topography between an active electrode and a polymer electrolyte determines the nucleation sites of the CFs. The growth kinetics of the CFs and the resultant resistive memory are found to vary with the molecular weight of the polymer electrolyte and the metal protrusions at the interface. Our direct observations show that the free volume of voids of the polymer electrolyte, varied with the molecular weight, dictates the ion transport for the growth and the disruption of the CFs. Our organic ECM‐based memristor with a hetero‐electrolyte exhibits high mechanical flexibility, low switching voltages reduced by about three times compared to those of conventional devices, and stable memory retention for longer than 104 s under repeated cycles of bending.
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Lee , S-H , Park , H-L , Keum , C-M , Lee , I-H , Kim , M-H & Lee , S-D 2019 , ' Organic flexible memristor with reduced operating voltage and high stability by interfacial control of conductive filament growth ' , Physica Status Solidi - Rapid Research Letters , vol. Early View , 1900044 . https://doi.org/10.1002/pssr.201900044
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Physica Status Solidi - Rapid Research Letters
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Peer reviewed
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1862-6254Type
Journal article
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© 2019, WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim. This work has been made available online in accordance with the publisher's policies. This is the author created accepted version manuscript following peer review and as such may differ slightly from the final published version. The final published version of this work is available at https://doi.org/10.1002/pssr.201900044
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This work was supported in part through the BK21 Program funded by Ministry of Education of Korea.Collections
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