Conductive-polymer electronic switch

Details Conductive-polymer electronic switch Conductive-polymer electronic switch

2007-02-20

2007-02-20

Zacharia, Ramsey (Department: 1773)

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C428S457000, C428S500000

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10356394

ABSTRACT:
A switch, used as an electronic-memory element, comprising a conductive organic polymer layer sandwiched between, and in contact with, two metallic conductive elements. In an initial post-fabrication state, the organic polymer layer is relatively highly conductive, the post-fabrication constituting a first stable state of the memory element that can serve to represent a binary bit “1 or 0,” depending which of two possible encoding conventions is employed. A relatively high voltage pulse can be passed between the two metal conductive elements, resulting in a market decrease in the current-carrying capacity of the organic polymer layer sandwiched between the two conductive elements. This change in conductivity of the organic polymer layer is generally irreversible, and constitutes a second stable state of the memory element that may be used to encode a binary bit “0” or “1,” again depending on which of two possible encoding conventions are employed. Organic-polymer-based memory elements, modified to include an additional diode-acting layer, may be fabricated in dense, two-dimensional arrays.

REFERENCES:
patent: 6236587 (2001-05-01), Gudesen et al.
patent: 6528815 (2003-03-01), Brown et al.

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