• 文献标题:   Molecular memory with atomically smooth graphene contacts
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   UMAIR A, RAZA TZ, RAZA H
  • 作者关键词:   graphene, contact, molecular memory, writeonce readmany, buckyball
  • 出版物名称:   NANOSCALE RESEARCH LETTERS
  • ISSN:   1931-7573 EI 1556-276X
  • 通讯作者地址:   Univ Iowa
  • 被引频次:   3
  • DOI:   10.1186/1556-276X-8-476
  • 出版年:   2013

▎ 摘  要

We report the use of bilayer graphene as an atomically smooth contact for nanoscale devices. A two-terminal bucky-ball (C-60) based molecular memory is fabricated with bilayer graphene as a contact on the polycrystalline nickel electrode. Graphene provides an atomically smooth covering over an otherwise rough metal surface. The use of graphene additionally prohibits the electromigration of nickel into the C-60 layer. The devices exhibit a low-resistance state in the first sweep cycle and irreversibly switch to a high-resistance state at 0.8 to 1.2 V bias. In the subsequent cycles, the devices retain the high-resistance state, thus making it write-once read-many memory.