Document Type

Article

Original Publication Date

2005

Journal/Book/Conference Title

Journal of Applied Physics

Volume

97

Issue

12

DOI of Original Publication

10.1063/1.1937477

Comments

Originally published at http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1937477

Date of Submission

October 2015

Abstract

Cadmium sulfide nanowires of 10‐nm diameter, electrodeposited in porous anodic alumina films, exhibit an electronic bistability that can be harnessed for nonvolatile memory. The current–voltage characteristics of the wires show two stable conductance states that are well separated (conductances differ by more than four orders of magnitude) and long lived (longevity>1 yr at room temperature). These two states can encode binary bits 0 and 1. It is possible to switch between them by varying the voltage across the wires, thus “writing” data. Transport behavior of this system has been investigated at different temperatures in an effort to understand the origin of bistability, and a model is presented to explain the observed features. Based on this model, we estimate that about 40 trapped electrons per nanowire are responsible for the bistability.

Rights

Pokalyakin, V., Tereshin, S., Varfolomeev, A., et al. Proposed model for bistability in nanowire nonvolatile memory. Journal of Applied Physics 97, 124306 (2005). Copyright © 2005 AIP Publishing LLC.

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