Flexible nonvolatile organic ferroelectric memory transistors fabricated on polydimethylsiloxane elastomer

The flexible organic ferroelectric nonvolatile memory thin film transistors (OFMTs) were fabricated on polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) elastomer substrates, in which an organic ferroelectric poly(vinylidene-trifluoroethylene) and an organic semiconducting poly(9,9-dioctylfluorene-co-bithiophene) layers were used as gate insulator and active channel, respectively. The carrier mobility, on/off ratio, and subthreshold swing of the OFMTs fabricated on PDMS showed 5 x 10(-2) cm(2) V-1 s(-1), 7.5 x 10(3), and 2.5 V/decade, respectively. These obtained values did not markedly change when the substrate was bent with a radius of curvature of 0.6 cm. The memory on/off ratio was initially obtained to be 1.5 x 10(3) and maintained to be 20 even after a lapse of 2000 s. The fabricated OFMTs exhibited sufficiently encouraging device characteristics even on the PDMS elastomer to realize mechanically stretchable nonvolatile memory devices. (C) 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.