Grant: Strategic Projects Supplemental Competition

A cross-disciplinary collaboration between investigators in Electrical Engineering and Chemistry has lead tothe discovery of a promising new material system for nanoelectronics. This material system is a conductingpolymer in which the electronic properties can be tuned by applying a voltage. The polymer system iselectrochemically grown and has the property that transient current-voltage characteristics can be electric fieldcontrolled and exhibit memory effects. A memory cell has been demonstrated with a minimum dimension ofless than 400 nm. A great advantage of this system is that it is compatible with conventional CMOS electronicsin a high-density cross-bar array. The project will build on the proof of principle research and develop accuratemodels, explore new materials to enhance functionality, work with our industry partner (MOSAID) to designread/write circuitry compatible with standard CMOS and explore methods to fabricate devices of molecularscale. One concrete goal is to demonstrate an 8x8 memory array based on field modulated conjugatedploymers.