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Cost-effective fabrication of memristive devices with ZnO thin film using printed electronics technologies

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A prototype memristive device has been presented in this paper, for which the top and bottom electrodes have been fabricated through a simple and cost-effective technique, i.e. electrohydrodynamic printing. For deposition of the bottom electrode pattern, a silver ink containing 60 wt% silver by content was subjected to controlled flow through a metal capillary exposed to an electric field at the ambient temperature to generate an electrohydrodynamic jet, thereby depositing uniform patterns of silver on glass substrate at a constant substrate speed. The top electrode has been deposited in a similar fashion. In between the top and bottom electrodes, a uniform layer of ZnO is fabricated using spin-coating technique. The nanoscale ZnO memristor stack has a channel length of 370 μm and channel width of 82 μm. A memristor thus fabricated was characterized and its current voltage curves were analyzed. The device showed a typical nonvolatile resistive switching behavior present in memristor devices thus highlighting the EHD printed patterning as a reliable method for the fabrication of memory devices.

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This research was supported by Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (2010-0026163)

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  1. School of Mechatronics Engineering, Jeju National University, 66 Jejudaehakno, Jeju, 690-756, Republic of Korea

    Kyung Hyun Choi, Maria Mustafa & Khalid Rahman

  2. School of Electronic Engineering, Jeju National University, 66 Jejudaehakno, Jeju, 690-756, Republic of Korea

    Bum Ko Jeong & Yang Hui Doh

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Choi, K.H., Mustafa, M., Rahman, K. et al. Cost-effective fabrication of memristive devices with ZnO thin film using printed electronics technologies. Appl. Phys. A 106, 165–170 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00339-011-6670-z

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