Silver Nanowire/Colorless-Polyimide Composite Electrode: Application in Flexible and Transparent Resistive Switching Memory
Abstract Improving the performance of resistive switching memories, while providing high transparency and excellent mechanical stability, has been of great interest because of the emerging need for electronic wearable devices. However, it remains a great challenge to fabricate fully flexible and tra...
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| author | Seung-Won Yeom Banseok You Karam Cho Hyun Young Jung Junsu Park Changhwan Shin Byeong-Kwon Ju Jong-Woong Kim |
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| description | Abstract Improving the performance of resistive switching memories, while providing high transparency and excellent mechanical stability, has been of great interest because of the emerging need for electronic wearable devices. However, it remains a great challenge to fabricate fully flexible and transparent resistive switching memories because not enough research on flexible and transparent electrodes, for their application in resistive switching memories, has been conducted. Therefore, it has not been possible to obtain a nonvolatile memory with commercial applications. Recently, an electrode composed of a networked structure of Ag nanowires (AgNWs) embedded in a polymer, such as colorless polyimide (cPI), has been attracting increasing attention because of its high electrical, optical, and mechanical stability. However, for an intended use as a transparent electrode and substrate for resistive switching memories, it still has the crucial disadvantage of having a limited surface coverage of conductive pathways. Here, we introduce a novel approach to obtain a AgNWs/cPI composite electrode with a high figure-of-merit, mechanical stability, surface smoothness, and abundant surface coverage of conductive networks. By employing the fabricated electrodes, a flexible and transparent resistive memory could be successfully fabricated. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-a19fc4c7352142cab9a3fb840579b5e32022-12-21T21:21:07ZengNature PortfolioScientific Reports2045-23222017-06-01711910.1038/s41598-017-03746-1Silver Nanowire/Colorless-Polyimide Composite Electrode: Application in Flexible and Transparent Resistive Switching MemorySeung-Won Yeom0Banseok You1Karam Cho2Hyun Young Jung3Junsu Park4Changhwan Shin5Byeong-Kwon Ju6Jong-Woong Kim7Display and Nanosystem Laboratory, College of Engineering, Korea UniversityDisplay and Nanosystem Laboratory, College of Engineering, Korea UniversitySchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of SeoulDepartment of Energy Engineering, Gyeongnam National University of Science and TechnologyDisplay and Nanosystem Laboratory, College of Engineering, Korea UniversitySchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of SeoulDisplay and Nanosystem Laboratory, College of Engineering, Korea UniversityDisplay Materials & Components Research Center, Korea Electronics Technology InstituteAbstract Improving the performance of resistive switching memories, while providing high transparency and excellent mechanical stability, has been of great interest because of the emerging need for electronic wearable devices. However, it remains a great challenge to fabricate fully flexible and transparent resistive switching memories because not enough research on flexible and transparent electrodes, for their application in resistive switching memories, has been conducted. Therefore, it has not been possible to obtain a nonvolatile memory with commercial applications. Recently, an electrode composed of a networked structure of Ag nanowires (AgNWs) embedded in a polymer, such as colorless polyimide (cPI), has been attracting increasing attention because of its high electrical, optical, and mechanical stability. However, for an intended use as a transparent electrode and substrate for resistive switching memories, it still has the crucial disadvantage of having a limited surface coverage of conductive pathways. Here, we introduce a novel approach to obtain a AgNWs/cPI composite electrode with a high figure-of-merit, mechanical stability, surface smoothness, and abundant surface coverage of conductive networks. By employing the fabricated electrodes, a flexible and transparent resistive memory could be successfully fabricated.https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-03746-1 |
| spellingShingle | Seung-Won Yeom Banseok You Karam Cho Hyun Young Jung Junsu Park Changhwan Shin Byeong-Kwon Ju Jong-Woong Kim Silver Nanowire/Colorless-Polyimide Composite Electrode: Application in Flexible and Transparent Resistive Switching Memory Scientific Reports |
| title | Silver Nanowire/Colorless-Polyimide Composite Electrode: Application in Flexible and Transparent Resistive Switching Memory |
| title_full | Silver Nanowire/Colorless-Polyimide Composite Electrode: Application in Flexible and Transparent Resistive Switching Memory |
| title_fullStr | Silver Nanowire/Colorless-Polyimide Composite Electrode: Application in Flexible and Transparent Resistive Switching Memory |
| title_full_unstemmed | Silver Nanowire/Colorless-Polyimide Composite Electrode: Application in Flexible and Transparent Resistive Switching Memory |
| title_short | Silver Nanowire/Colorless-Polyimide Composite Electrode: Application in Flexible and Transparent Resistive Switching Memory |
| title_sort | silver nanowire colorless polyimide composite electrode application in flexible and transparent resistive switching memory |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-03746-1 |
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