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APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS
Volume 84, Issue 24, Pages 5019-5021Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.1763632
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We present a simple, nonvolatile, write-once-read-many-times (WORM) memory device utilizing an organic-on-inorganic heterojunction (OI-HJ) diode with a conductive polymer fuse consisting of polyethylene dioxythiophene:polysterene sulfonic acid (PEDOT:PSS) forming one side of the rectifying junction. Current transients are used to change the fuse from a conducting to a nonconducting state to record a logical 1 or 0, while the nonlinearity of the OI-HJ allows for passive matrix memory addressing. The device switches at 2 and 4 V for 50 nm thick PEDOT:PSS films on p-type Si and n-type Si, respectively. This is significantly lower than the switching voltage used in PEDOT:PSS/p-i-n Si memory elements [J. Appl Phys. 94, 7811 (2003)]. The switching results in a permanent reduction of forward-bias current by approximately five orders of magnitude. These results suggest that the OI-HJ structure has potential for use in low-cost passive matrix WORM memories for archival storage applications. (C) 2004 American Institute of Physics.
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