Effect of glycerol on retention time and electrical properties of polymer bistable memory devices based on glycerol-modified PEDOT:PSS

J Nanosci Nanotechnol. 2012 Jan;12(1):469-74. doi: 10.1166/jnn.2012.5355.

Abstract

The addition of glycerol to Poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene):Poly(styrene sulfonate) (PEDOT:PSS) films affected the bipolar switching characteristics of nonvolatile polymer memory devices (PMDs). Increasing the glycerol/PEDOT:PSS ratio caused increase in the OFF-current of the PMDs, but did not affect the ON-current levels. This result demonstrates that highly-conductive current paths occur in the ON-state. The write-read-erase-read cycle test was operated > 10(5) times. And, the ON-retention time is largely dependent on the glycerol to PEDOT:PSS ratio and annealing temperature. In addition, AFM analysis on the G-PEDOT:PSS films to see how the surface morphology of G-PEDOT:PSS layer influences the retention time properties was carried out.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Computer Storage Devices*
  • Electric Conductivity
  • Equipment Design
  • Equipment Failure Analysis
  • Glycerol / chemistry*
  • Nanostructures / chemistry*
  • Nanostructures / ultrastructure
  • Polystyrenes / chemistry*
  • Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted / instrumentation*
  • Thiophenes / chemistry*

Substances

  • Polystyrenes
  • Thiophenes
  • poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene)-poly(styrenesulfonate)
  • Glycerol