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3-D Printing of Flexible Two Terminal Electronic Memory Devices
Recent strategy in the electronics sector is to ascertain the ways to make cheap, flexible and environmentally friendly electronic devices. The 3D inkjet printing technology is based on the Additive Manufactur...
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Birth of silicon nanowires covered with protective insulating blanket
Core-shell silicon-silicon oxide nanowires are synthesized at low temperatures using inorganic and organic compounds of a tin as a catalyst. In situ simultaneous one-dimensional growth of pristine silicon nano...
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Creating Electrical Bistability Using Nano-bits — Application in 2-Terminal Memory Devices
Intensive research is currently underway to exploit the highly interesting properties of nano-bits (“nano-sized particles and molecules”) for optical, electronic and other applications. The basis of these uniq...
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Charge-Trap-Non-volatile Memory and Focus on Flexible Flash Memory Devices
Silicon nanostructures are discussed in this chapter. First, the field of nanotechnology in relation to the properties and basic physical phenomena of nanomaterials is presented. Then, the current status of na...
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Open AccessA new approach for two-terminal electronic memory devices - Storing information on silicon nanowires
The work described in this paper focuses on the utilisation of silicon nanowires as the information storage element in flash-type memory devices. Silicon nanostructures have attracted attention due to interesting...
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Bayesian Learning of Material Density Function by Multiple Sequential Inversions of 2-D Images in Electron Microscopy
We discuss a novel inverse problem in which the data is generated by the sequential contractive projections of the convolution of two unknown functions, both of which we aim to learn. The method is illustrated...
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Open AccessGrowth of low temperature silicon nano-structures for electronic and electrical energy generation applications
This paper represents the lowest growth temperature for silicon nano-wires (SiNWs) via a vapour-liquid–solid method, which has ever been reported in the literature. The nano-wires were grown using plasma-enhan...
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Fabrication of Photovoltaic Devices using Novel Organic Polymer/Nanostructure Blends
Organic photovoltaic devices offer a potentially cheap source of electrical power due to the relative ease of processing compared to silicon devices. Over the last decade the efficiency of these devices has im...
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Photoconductivity Measurements of Organic Polymer/Nanostructure Blends
In an attempt to produce low cost and high quality polymer/nanoparticle blends for use in hybrid organic/inorganic photovoltaic devices we prepared blends of dihexylsexithiophene and tetragonal barium titanate...
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Low Temperature Growth of Silicon Structures for Application in Flash Memory Devices
An in-depth study of the structural and electrical properties of silicon (Si) films deposited by a novel low temperature technique at temperatures less than 400°C in a 13.56 MHz RF PECVD reactor is reported. T...
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Small Organic Molecules for Electrically Re-writable Non-volatile Polymer Memory Devices
The usage of organic materials in the manufacture of electronic polymer memory devices is on the rise. Polymer memory devices are fabricated by depositing a blend (an admixture of organic polymer, small molecu...
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Optimising the Low Temperature Growth of Uniform ZnO Nanowires
Zinc oxide (ZnO) nanowires have been widely investigated and various different methods of their synthesis have been suggested. This work is devoted to the optimisation of the growth conditions for uniform and ...
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A Novel Method for the growth of Low Temperature Silicon Structures for 3-D Flash Memory Devices
Low temperature (≤400°C) growth of polycrystalline silicon (poly-Si) is carried out using plasma-enhanced chemical vapour deposition. After an initial preparation step poly-Si was grown on the substrates. Opti...
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Making Plastic Remember: Electrically Rewritable Polymer Memory Devices
Organic based electronic memory devices are currently receiving an unprecedented amount attention as possible alternatives for conventional semiconductor memories, due to their simple device structures, ease o...
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Organic Memory Devices Using C60 and Insulating Polymer
In this paper, we describe an all organic molecular memory device that combines the advantages of molecular and organic electronics. We accomplish this by combining C60 molecules with poly(4-vinylphenol) (PVP) an...
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The role of dual-phase helical CT in assessing resectability of carcinoma of the gallbladder
Our objective was to assess the ability of dual-phase helical CT (DHCT) to predict resectability of carcinoma of gallbladder (CaGB). Thirty-two consecutive patients suspected of having CaGB on clinical examin...
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Substrate Sensitivity of the Adhesion and Material Properties of RF-PECVD Amorphous Carbon
Hydrogenated amorphous carbon (a-C:H), deposited by the if-plasma enhanced chemical vapour deposition (rf-PECVD) technique, is a promising material for large area electronic and interlayer dielectric applicati...
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High Reverse Breakdown a-C:H/Si Diodes Manufactured by rf-PECVD
Thin films of hydrogenated amorphous carbon (a-C:H) deposited by radio frequency plasma-enhanced chemical vapour deposition (rf-PECVD) have been studied for various applications. An interesting property of the...
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Pattern Formation by Changing V/III Ratio During Growth of GaAs by MOVPE
Rode pointed out that periodically-disturbed surface morphology can occur on epilayers grown on slightly misoriented substrates. Johnson and Legg investigated Rode's prediction in Metalorganic Vapour Phase Epi...
