Bioorganic nanodots for non-volatile memory devices

Autor: Nadav Amdursky, Gil Shalev, Amir Handelman, Simon Litsyn, Amir Natan, Yakov Roizin, Yossi Rosenwaks, Daniel Szwarcman, Gil Rosenman
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2013
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Zdroj: APL Materials, Vol 1, Iss 6, Pp 062104-062104-6 (2013)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2166-532X
DOI: 10.1063/1.4838815
Popis: In recent years we are witnessing an intensive integration of bio-organic nanomaterials in electronic devices. Here we show that the diphenylalanine bio-molecule can self-assemble into tiny peptide nanodots (PNDs) of ∼2 nm size, and can be embedded into metal-oxide-semiconductor devices as charge storage nanounits in non-volatile memory. For that purpose, we first directly observe the crystallinity of a single PND by electron microscopy. We use these nanocrystalline PNDs units for the formation of a dense monolayer on SiO2 surface, and study the electron/hole trapping mechanisms and charge retention ability of the monolayer, followed by fabrication of PND-based memory cell device.
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