TY - GEN
T1 - Development of polymer electrolytes based resistive switch
AU - Wu, Shouming
AU - Tsuruoka, Tohru
AU - Terabe, Kazuya
AU - Hasegawa, Tsuyoshi
AU - Hill, Jonathan P.
AU - Ariga, Katsuhiko
AU - Aono, Masakazu
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - The construction of an organic-electronic resistive switch based on polymer electrolytes is the basis to study the interfacial and bulk transport as well as the interaction between ions and electrons/holes at the nanoscale level. Moreover, it could also be potentially applied in novel nanoelectrochemical devices for sensors, fuel cells and batteries, and therefore has attracted much attention in recent years. In this work, we fabricated resistive switching devices with silver-ion-conductive polymer electrolytes. The devices showed bipolar switching behaviors in the current-voltage characteristics for different silver ion concentrations ranging from 1 to 4 wt%. A high resistance up to 1 GΩ in the OFF state and a low resistance with less than tens of kΩ in the ON state can be achieved. We believe that the observed switching results from formation and annihilation of Ag metal filaments inside the polymer film by solid electrochemical reaction. Sequential operations, such as write-read-erase-read, were also demonstrated.
AB - The construction of an organic-electronic resistive switch based on polymer electrolytes is the basis to study the interfacial and bulk transport as well as the interaction between ions and electrons/holes at the nanoscale level. Moreover, it could also be potentially applied in novel nanoelectrochemical devices for sensors, fuel cells and batteries, and therefore has attracted much attention in recent years. In this work, we fabricated resistive switching devices with silver-ion-conductive polymer electrolytes. The devices showed bipolar switching behaviors in the current-voltage characteristics for different silver ion concentrations ranging from 1 to 4 wt%. A high resistance up to 1 GΩ in the OFF state and a low resistance with less than tens of kΩ in the ON state can be achieved. We believe that the observed switching results from formation and annihilation of Ag metal filaments inside the polymer film by solid electrochemical reaction. Sequential operations, such as write-read-erase-read, were also demonstrated.
KW - Ion-conductive polymer electrolytes
KW - Memory devices
KW - Resistive switch
KW - Solid electrochemical reaction
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U2 - 10.1117/12.840156
DO - 10.1117/12.840156
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:72149090139
SN - 9780819478047
T3 - Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
BT - 2nd International Conference on Smart Materials and Nanotechnology in Engineering
T2 - 2nd International Conference on Smart Materials and Nanotechnology in Engineering
Y2 - 8 July 2009 through 11 July 2009
ER -