title: Programmable permanent data storage characteristics of nanoscale thin films of a thermally stable aromatic polyimide.
abstract: We have synthesized a new thermally and dimensionally stable polyimide, poly(4,4'-amino(4-hydroxyphenyl)diphenylene hexafluoroisopropylidenediphthalimide) (6F-HTPA PI). 6F-HTPA PI is soluble in organic solvents and is thus easily processed with conventional solution coating techniques to produce good quality nanoscale thin films. Devices fabricated with nanoscale thin PI films with thicknesses less than 77 nm exhibit excellent unipolar write-once-read-many-times (WORM) memory behavior with a high ON/OFF current ratio of up to 10(6), a long retention time and low power consumption, less than +/-3.0 V. Furthermore, these WORM characteristics were found to persist even at high temperatures up to 150 degrees C. The WORM memory behavior was found to be governed by trap-limited space-charge limited conduction and local filament formation. The conduction processes are dominated by hole injection. Thus the hydroxytriphenylamine moieties of the PI polymer might play a key role as hole trapping sites in the observed WORM memory behavior. The properties of 6F-HTPA PI make it a promising material for high-density and very stable programmable permanent data storage devices with low power consumption.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, National Research Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis and Physics, Center for Electro-Photo Behaviors in Advanced Molecular Systems, Division of Advanced Materials Science, Polymer Research Institute, and BK School of Molecular Science, Pohang University of Science & Technology, Pohang 790-784, Republic of Korea.
authors.forename: Dong Min
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Samdae
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Park
authors.forename: Taek Joon
authors.initials: TJ
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: Suk Gyu
authors.initials: SG
authors.lastname: Hahm
authors.forename: Kyungtae
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Jin Chul
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Wonsang
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Kwon
authors.forename: Moonhor
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ree