Stretchable organic memory: toward learnable and digitized stretchable electronic applications
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A stretchable organic digital information storage device has been developed, which potentially advances the development of future smart and digital stretchable electronic systems. The stretchable organic memory with a buckled structure was configured by a mechanically flexible and elastic graphene bottom electrode and polymer compound. The current–voltage curve of the wrinkled memory device demonstrated electrical bistability with typical write-once-read-many times memory features and a high ON/OFF current ratio (∼105). Even under repetitive stretching, the stretchable organic memory exhibited excellent electrical switching functions and memory effects. We believe the first proof-of-concept presentation of the stretchable organic nonvolatile memory may accelerate the development of information storage device in various stretchable electronic applications, such as stretchable display, wearable computer and artificial skin. Stretchable and foldable electronic devices are very attractive, not only for their practicality but also for their potential in as-yet-undeveloped applications, such as artificial electronic skin. Now, Yang-Fang Chen from the National Taiwan University and co-workers have constructed a stretchable organic memory device. Although a variety of flexible organic electronic devices have already been built, which include transistors or solar cells, building stretchable memory devices has remained a challenge. This is because they typically contain a brittle metal electrode, and their fabrication also involves processes — such as spin coating — that are incompatible with flexible substrates. The researchers circumvented these issues by buckling both a graphene, rather than metallic, electrode and the active memory layers over a pre-stretched poly(dimethylsiloxane) elastomer. When the pre-strain was released, the materials adopted a wrinkled structure that endowed them with flexibility. The resulting device showed good electrical switching behavior and memory effects after several stretch/release cycles. A stretchable wrinkled organic memory has been successfully demonstrated. The stretchable organic memory with a graphene bottom electrode possesses rippled structures. The stretchable organic memory exhibits excellent electrical switching behaviors and memory effects even under repetitive stretching. It is believed that this stretchable organic memory may be beneficial for digital information storage in future stretchable electronic systems.
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OpenAlex topics: Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials · Conducting polymers and applications · Advanced Memory and Neural Computing
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