Issue 14, 2021

Incorporating a redox active entity to attain electrical bistability in a polymer semiconductor

Abstract

Owing to the advantages of 3-D printable stack, scalability and low cost solution state production, polymer-based resistive memory devices have been identified as the promising alternative for conventional oxide technology. Resistive memory devices based on the redox switch mechanism is particularly found to yield high precision with respect to the operational voltages. Reversible non-volatile resistive state switching was realized with high device yield (>80%), with a redox-active chemical entity conjugated to the polymeric semiconductor, and the control experiments with the model compound confirmed the imperative role of the redox-active anthraquinone center in the polymeric backbone. Highly uniform nanodomains and the trap free layers excluded the possibilities of other known switching mechanisms. Optical studies and the molecular modelling data assert the presence of strong charge transfer characteristics upon optical excitation due to the insertion of the anthraquinone unit, which was detrimental in exhibiting bistable conductive states in electrical bias as well.

Graphical abstract: Incorporating a redox active entity to attain electrical bistability in a polymer semiconductor

Supplementary files

Article information

Article type
Communication
Submitted
11 feb 2021
Accepted
19 mar 2021
First published
19 mar 2021

Nanoscale, 2021,13, 6759-6763

Incorporating a redox active entity to attain electrical bistability in a polymer semiconductor

B. K. Barman, N. G. Ghosh, I. Giri, C. Kumar, S. S. Zade and R. K. Vijayaraghavan, Nanoscale, 2021, 13, 6759 DOI: 10.1039/D1NR00960E

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