scispace - formally typeset
Journal ArticleDOI

Organic Nonvolatile Memory Transistors for Flexible Sensor Arrays

TLDR
A sensor matrix is realized that detects the spatial distribution of applied mechanical pressure and stores the analog sensor input as a two-dimensional image over long periods of time by integrating a flexible array of organic floating-gate transistors with a pressure-sensitive rubber sheet.
Abstract
Using organic transistors with a floating gate embedded in hybrid dielectrics that comprise a 2-nanometer-thick molecular self-assembled monolayer and a 4-nanometer-thick plasma-grown metal oxide, we have realized nonvolatile memory arrays on flexible plastic substrates. The small thickness of the dielectrics allows very small program and erase voltages (≤6 volts) to produce a large, nonvolatile, reversible threshold-voltage shift. The transistors endure more than 1000 program and erase cycles, which is within two orders of magnitude of silicon-based floating-gate transistors widely employed in flash memory. By integrating a flexible array of organic floating-gate transistors with a pressure-sensitive rubber sheet, we have realized a sensor matrix that detects the spatial distribution of applied mechanical pressure and stores the analog sensor input as a two-dimensional image over long periods of time.

read more

Citations
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI

Interface Engineering in Organic Field-Effect Transistors: Principles, Applications, and Perspectives

TL;DR: This review will provide a fundamental understanding of the interplay between the molecular structure, assembly, and emergent functions at the molecular level and consequently offer novel insights into designing a new generation of multifunctional integrated circuits and sensors toward practical applications.
Journal ArticleDOI

A perspective: carbon nanotube macro-films for energy storage

TL;DR: In this article, the effect of compressive stress on the electrochemical behavior of flexible supercapacitors assembled with CNT macro-film electrodes and electrolytes with different anions and cations is investigated.
Journal ArticleDOI

Electrical memory devices based on inorganic/organic nanocomposites

TL;DR: Kim et al. as discussed by the authors reviewed how nanocomposite materials that combine organic and inorganic materials are attractive for use in memory components and showed that hybrid organic-inorganic devices, such as a polymer matrix in which metal nanoparticles have been incorporated, are easy to make, cost-effective, mechanically flexible and efficient.
Journal ArticleDOI

Layer-by-layer-assembled reduced graphene oxide/gold nanoparticle hybrid double-floating-gate structure for low-voltage flexible flash memory.

TL;DR: Developing an appropriate upper-fl oating-gate material with the following properties is necessary for technological applications: i) a suitable work function to set up an energy barrier so a long retention time is obtained; ii) a large area to achieve an accurate spatial distribution on the lower fl oating gate; and iii) a fl attened surface to improve the interface quality between the double fl Oating gate and the dielectric layer.
Journal ArticleDOI

Stable switching characteristics of organic nonvolatile memory on a bent flexible substrate.

TL;DR: This work has shown that organic memories have emerged as an excellent candidate for the nextgeneration information storage media because of their potential application in fl exible memory devices.
References
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI

Flexible active-matrix displays and shift registers based on solution-processed organic transistors.

TL;DR: Flexible active-matrix monochrome electrophoretic displays based on solution-processed organic transistors on 25-μm-thick polyimide substrates based on 1,888 transistors are demonstrated, which are the largest organic integrated circuits reported to date.
Journal ArticleDOI

Conformable, flexible, large-area networks of pressure and thermal sensors with organic transistor active matrixes

TL;DR: This work has successfully developed conformable, flexible, large-area networks of thermal and pressure sensors based on an organic semiconductor, and, by means of laminated sensor networks, the distributions of pressure and temperature are simultaneously obtained.
Journal ArticleDOI

Ultralow-power organic complementary circuits

TL;DR: This work demonstrates an organic circuit with very low power consumption that uses a self-assembled monolayer gate dielectric and two different air-stable molecular semiconductors (pentacene and hexadecafluorocopperphthalocyanine, F16CuPc) to implement transistors, circuits, displays and sensors on arbitrary substrates.
Journal ArticleDOI

Introduction to flash memory

TL;DR: The main reliability issues, such as charge retention and endurance, are discussed, together with an understanding of the basic physical mechanisms responsible and an insight into the multilevel approach, where two bits are stored in the same cell, is presented.
Journal ArticleDOI

High-performance solution-processed polymer ferroelectric field-effect transistors

TL;DR: In this paper, a non-volatile memory device with flexible plastic active layers deposited from solution is presented, and the memory device is a ferroelectric field effect transistor (FeFET) made with a Ferroelectric fluoropolymer and a bisalkoxy-substituted poly(pphenylene vinylene) semiconductor material.
Related Papers (5)