Battery-inspired, nonvolatile, and rewritable memory architecture: a radical polymer-based organic device

A nonvolatile, bistable, and rewritable organic memory device based on radical polymers was prepared and tested. The excellent performance of a battery-inspired memory architecture with a configuration of p- and n-type charge-transporting radical polymers sandwiching a dielectric layer was characterized. The ON-OFF ratio was more than 4 orders of magnitude, and retention and endurance cycles of more than 10(4) and 10(3), respectively, were accomplished.