Handbook of Organic Materials for Optical and (Opto)Electronic Devices

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Organic electronic memory devices

M.C. Petty,     Durham University, UK

Abstract

This chapter provides a review of the different concepts that have been proposed for the realisation of electronic memory structures based on electro-active organic materials. One option is to develop the organic equivalents of existing (e.g. silicon-based) random access memory devices. Resistive memories also offer an attractive technology by which devices can easily be scaled. However, the operational principles of these deceptively simple memory elements have yet to be firmly established. A major challenge is the development of molecular- based memories, i.e. exploiting individual molecules or small groups of molecules. An even more radical approach is ...