Synthesis, characterization, and nonvolatile ternary memory behavior of a larger heteroacene with nine linearly fused rings and two different heteroatoms

Pei-Yang Gu; Feng Zhou; Junkuo Gao; Gang Li; Chengyuan Wang; Qing-Feng Xu; Qichun Zhang; Jian-Mei Lu

doi:10.1021/ja408208c

Synthesis, characterization, and nonvolatile ternary memory behavior of a larger heteroacene with nine linearly fused rings and two different heteroatoms

J Am Chem Soc. 2013 Sep 25;135(38):14086-9. doi: 10.1021/ja408208c. Epub 2013 Sep 13.

Authors

Pei-Yang Gu¹, Feng Zhou, Junkuo Gao, Gang Li, Chengyuan Wang, Qing-Feng Xu, Qichun Zhang, Jian-Mei Lu

Affiliation

¹ College of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Soochow University , Suzhou, 215123, China.

PMID: 24025023
DOI: 10.1021/ja408208c

Abstract

To achieve ultrahigh density memory devices with the capacity of 3(n) or larger, organic materials with multilevel stable states are highly desirable. Here, we reported a novel larger stable heteroacene, 2,3,13,14-tetradecyloxy-5,11,16,22-tetraaza-6,10,17,21-tetrachloro-7,9,18,20-tetraoxa-8,19-dicyanoenneacene (CDPzN), which has two different types of heteroatoms (O and N) and nine linearly fused rings. The sandwich-structure memory devices based on CDPzN exhibited excellent ternary memory behaviors with high ON2/ON1/OFF current ratios of 10(6.3)/10(4.3)/1 and good stability for these three states.