Journal
POLYMER JOURNAL
Volume 44, Issue 3, Pages 257-263Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/pj.2011.114
Keywords
donor-acceptor system; molecular devices; polymer memory; synthesis
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21074034]
- Ministry of Education of China [309013]
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities
- State Key Laboratory of ASIC & System of Fudan University [11KF007]
- Shanghai Municipal Educational Commission [08GG10]
- Shanghai Eastern Scholarship
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A new soluble conjugated polymer, poly[{9-(4-methoxyphenyl)-9H-carbazole}(9,9-dioctylfluorene)(2,5-diphenyl-1,3,4-oxadiazole)] (PCFO), was synthesized through the Suzuki coupling reaction. The absolute fluorescence quantum yield of PCFO was measured using the integrating sphere of a photoluminescence spectrofluorometer, and changed from 49.1% for a dilute tetrahydrofuran solution to 16.2% for a thin film due to the existence of a strong fluorescence quenching effect in the solid state. The HOMO-LUMO bandgap (3.07 eV) calculated from the electrochemical measurement is nearly identical to the optical bandgap (3.06 eV) estimated from the ultraviolet/visible absorption onset data. This film was attached to aluminum and indium-tin oxide contacts to fabricate a memory device with typical bistable electrical switching, nonvolatile write-once read-many-times memory performance, a turn-on voltage of similar to-2.3 V and an ON/OFF ratio of similar to 10(5). Degradation of the current density was observed for neither the ON nor OFF states after one hundred million continuous read cycles, which indicates that both states were insensitive to read cycles. Polymer Journal (2012) 44, 257-263; doi:10.1038/pj.2011.114; published online 26 October 2011
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