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Organic ferroelectric/semiconducting nanowire hybrid layer for memory storage

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Cai, Ronggang [UCL] Kassa, Hailu Gebru [UCL] Haouari, Rachid [UCL] Marrani, Alessio [Solvay Specialty Polymers, Italy.] Geerts, Yves.H. [Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgique] Nysten, Bernard [UCL] Jonas, Alain M. [UCL]

Ferroelectric materials are important components of sensors, actuators and non-volatile memories. However, possible device configurations are limited due to the need to provide screening charges to ferroelectric interfaces to avoid depolarization. Here we show that, by alternating ferroelectric and semiconducting nanowires over an insulating substrate, the ferroelectric dipole moment can be stabilized by injected free charge carriers accumulating laterally in the neighboring semiconducting nanowires. This lateral electrostatic coupling between ferroelectric and semiconducting nanowires offers new opportunities to design new device architectures. As an example, we demonstrate the fabrication of an elementary non-volatile memory device in a transistor-like configuration, of which the source–drain current exhibits a typical hysteretic behavior with respect to the poling voltage. The potential for size reduction intrinsic to the nanostructured hybrid layer offers opportunities for the development of strongly miniaturized ferroelectric and piezoelectric devices.

Document type Article de périodique (Journal article) – Article de recherche
Access type Accès interdit
Publication date 2016
Language Anglais
Journal information "Nanoscale" - Vol. 8, p. 5968 (February 2016)
Peer reviewed yes
Publisher Royal Society of Chemistry (London UK - )
issn 2040-3364
e-issn 2040-3372
Publication status Publié
Affiliation UCL - SST/IMCN/BSMA - Bio and soft matter
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Bibliographic reference Cai, Ronggang ; Kassa, Hailu Gebru ; Haouari, Rachid ; Marrani, Alessio ; Geerts, Yves.H. ; et. al. Organic ferroelectric/semiconducting nanowire hybrid layer for memory storage. In: Nanoscale, Vol. 8, p. 5968 (February 2016)
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