We report a bistable organic memory made of a single organic layer embedded between two electrodes, we compare to the organic/metal nanoparticle/organic tri-layers device [L.P. Ma, J. Liu, and Y. Yang, Appl. Phys. Lett. 80, 2997 (2002)]. We demonstrate that the two devices exhibit similar temperature-dependent behaviors, a thermally-activated behavior in their low conductive state (off-state) and a slightly "metallic" behavior in their high conductive state (on-state). This feature emphasizes a similar origin for the memory effect. Owing to their similar behavior, the one layer memory is advantageous in terms of fabrication cost and simplicity.
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0409758,
title = {Metal/organic/metal bistable memory devices},
author = {Dominique Vuillaume and Kamal Lmimouni and Denis Tondelier and Christophe Fery and Gunther Haas},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0409758},
year = {2015}
}