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Frequency Characteristics of Coercive Field in Ferroelectric Poly(Vinylidene Fluoride-Trifluoroethylene) Thin Film (강유전성 폴리(비닐리덴 플로라이드-트리플로로에틸렌) 박막의 항전계의 주파수 특성 분석)

  • Zhang, Ting;Rahman, Sheik Abdur;Khan, Shenawar Ali;Lee, Kwang-Man;Kim, Woo Young
    • Journal of the Korean Applied Science and Technology
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    • v.35 no.4
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    • pp.1206-1212
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    • 2018
  • In this study, the polarization reversal characteristics of thin film capacitors with a thickness of 100 nm or less fabricated with ferroelectric polymer were measured and analyzed. For the fixed film thickness, polarization reversal occurred at higher coercive fields as the applied maximum electric field increased. For the fixed maximum electric field, polarization reversal occurred at the same coercive field irrespective of the thickness of the thin film. The proportional constant values between the logarithmic electric field and the logarithmic scale frequency were $0.12{\pm}0.01$ for all measurements. As a result, the ferroelectric polymer capacitors consistently exhibited polarization reversal characteristics without any size effects up to a thickness of 40 nm. This study shows the possibility of a polymer memory device that can operate at low voltage, which is useful for predicting the behavior of a low-voltage operating polymer memory device.

Photo-Induced Memory of an OLED in the presence of thio-Michler's ketone

  • Enokida, Toshio;Gwon, Tae-Sun
    • 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2004.08a
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    • pp.281-284
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    • 2004
  • Photo-induced memory effect of an organic light-emitting diode(OLED) composed of a hydrazone-derivative(DBAH) dispersed in bis-phenol-A type polycarbonate polymer(PCA) in the presence of thio-Michler's ketone, was investigated by the measuring of the current density and luminance at the various conditions. After the light exposure, the current of the OLED was decreased approximately one order, and the luminance of the OLED also decresed. This memory effct was erasable by heating the OLED to the temperature higher than the glass transition temperature(Tg). As shown in this result, we found the memory effect was erased by heating and returned to its original state in the hole injecting layer(HIL) of the OLED. A series of these phenomena was suggested the possibility of the application to the imaging plate.

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Synthetic bio-actuators and their applications in biomedicine

  • Neiman, Veronica J.;Varghese, Shyni
    • Smart Structures and Systems
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    • v.7 no.3
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    • pp.185-198
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    • 2011
  • The promise of biomimetic smart structures that can function as sensors and actuators in biomedicine is enormous. Technological development in the field of stimuli-responsive shape memory polymers have opened up a new avenue of applications for polymer-based synthetic actuators. Such synthetic actuators mimic various attributes of living organisms including responsiveness to stimuli, shape memory, selectivity, motility, and organization. This article briefly reviews various stimuli-responsive shape memory polymers and their application as bioactuators. Although the technological advancements have prototyped the potential applications of these smart materials, their widespread commercialization depends on many factors such as sensitivity, versatility, moldability, robustness, and cost.

Photo Spacer Induced Bistable Mode Plastic PSFLCDs for High Mechanical Stability

  • Kim, Yu-Jin;Park, Seo-Kyu;Kwon, Soon-Bum;Lee, Ji-Hoon;Son, Ock-Soo;Lim, Tong-Kun
    • 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2005.07a
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    • pp.489-492
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    • 2005
  • We report new polymer stabilized ferroelectric liquid crystal (PSFLC) cells with mechanical stability which is achievable by introducing photospacers in the cells. It was found that the mechanical st ability of the PSFLC cell was effected by introduction of photo spacers. We analyzed the dependence of mechanical stability and memory property on the density of photospacers in the PSFLC cell. The stability and memory properties of PSFLC Cells depending on photospacer density are discussed. 1. Introduction Recently, flexible displays have attracted much attention because they have remarkable advantages: thinner, lighter, non-breakable and conformable features. Flexible displays have various potential applications such as e-book and e-paper displays utilizing the distinct features. E-book and E-paper displays demand very low power consumption, so that bistable memory liquid crystal modes are required in case of flexible plastic LCDs for those application. Three kinds of memory LC modes have been developed; bistable nematic, bistable cholesteric and bistable FLC. Among them SSFLC as one of bistable FLC has big advantages such as low driving voltage, wide view angle and fast response time, SSFLC cells are, however, very weak against mechanical shock. Polymer stabilized FLC (PSFLC) has been developed to overcome the poor mechanical stability of SSFLC. PSFLC was known to have network structure that FLCs are oriented with smectic layer ordering in polymer network. The polymer network stabilizes the FLC orientation, which leads to improvement of mechanical stability of PSFLCD. A lot of studies have been done for the application of PSFLC to flexible $LCDs.^{[1{\sim}12]}$ However, it should be noted that PSFLC does not have sufficient mechanical stability for the particular applications such as smart card LCD, where LCD is highly bendable.Bead spacer was mainly used to maintain cell gap of conventional PSFLCDs. But the spacer density of it is not locally uniform in the cell, so that it is generally difficult that the PSFLCDs with bead spacers show sufficient mechanical stability. In order to more improve the mechanical stability of PSFLCDs, we introduced photospacers into PSFLCDs. In this paper, we describe the improvement of mechanical stability by introducing photospacers into PSFLCDs.

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Non-volatile Molecular Memory using Nano-interfaced Organic Molecules in the Organic Field Effect Transistor

  • Lee, Hyo-Young
    • Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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    • 2010.02a
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    • pp.31-32
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    • 2010
  • In our previous reports [1-3], electron transport for the switching and memory devices using alkyl thiol-tethered Ru-terpyridine complex compounds with metal-insulator-metal crossbar structure has been presented. On the other hand, among organic memory devices, a memory based on the OFET is attractive because of its nondestructive readout and single transistor applications. Several attempts at nonvolatile organic memories involve electrets, which are chargeable dielectrics. However, these devices still do not sufficiently satisfy the criteria demanded in order to compete with other types of memory devices, and the electrets are generally limited to polymer materials. Until now, there is no report on nonvolatile organic electrets using nano-interfaced organic monomer layer as a dielectric material even though the use of organic monomer materials become important for the development of molecularly interfaced memory and logic elements. Furthermore, to increase a retention time for the nonvolatile organic memory device as well as to understand an intrinsic memory property, a molecular design of the organic materials is also getting important issue. In this presentation, we report on the OFET memory device built on a silicon wafer and based on films of pentacene and a SiO2 gate insulator that are separated by organic molecules which act as a gate dielectric. We proposed push-pull organic molecules (PPOM) containing triarylamine asan electron donating group (EDG), thiophene as a spacer, and malononitrile as an electron withdrawing group (EWG). The PPOM were designed to control charge transport by differences of the dihedral angles induced by a steric hindrance effect of side chainswithin the molecules. Therefore, we expect that these PPOM with potential energy barrier can save the charges which are transported to the nano-interface between the semiconductor and organic molecules used as the dielectrics. Finally, we also expect that the charges can be contributed to the memory capacity of the memory OFET device.[4]

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All Inkjet Printed Plastic RFID Tag

  • Cho, Gyou-Jin;Song, Jae-Hee;Jung, Min-Hoon;Lee, Bock-Im;Kim, Sun-Hee;Lim, Nam-Soo;Lee, Na-Young
    • Proceedings of the Polymer Society of Korea Conference
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    • 2006.10a
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    • pp.171-171
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    • 2006
  • In this presentation, we would like to report an inkjet printing method to produce 1 to 2 bit RFID tag working in the range of 6 to 28 MHz with or without transistors. The inkjet printing method especially for the formation of transistors, inductors, capacitors will be presented by the view of polymer chemistry. This presentation also includes the printing schemes for memory cell, ring oscillator, rectifier, antenna, and so forth for constructing RFID tag. I illustrate these strategies by describing recent my works on the formation of all SWNT-TFT and conducting polymer-silver nanocomposite inks that can be applied in the construction of electronic devices.

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A Study on Multi-Vehicle Control of Electro Active Polymer Actuator based on Embedded System using Adaptive Fuzzy Controller (Adaptive Fuzzy 제어기를 이용한 Embedded 시스템 기반의 기능성 고분자 구동체의 이중제어에 관한 연구)

  • 김태형;김훈모
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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    • 1997.10a
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    • pp.307-310
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    • 1997
  • In case of environment requiring safety such as human body and requiring flexible shape, a conventional mechanical actuator system does not satisfy requirement. Therefore, in order to solve this problem, a research of various smart material such as EAP (Electro Active Polymer), EAC (Electro Active Ceramic) and SMA (Shape Memory Alloy) is in progress. Recently, the highest preferring material among various smart material is EP (Electrostictive Polymer), because it has very fast response time, poerful force and large displacement. The previous researches have been studied properties of polymer and simple control, but present researches are studied a polymer actuator. An EP (Electostrictive Polymer) actuator has properties which change variably as shape and environmental condition. Therefore, in order to coincide with a user's purpose, it is important not only to decide a shape of actuator and mechanical design but also to investigate a efficient controller. In this paper, we constructed the control logic with an adaptive fuvy algorithm which depends on the physical properties of EP that has a dielectric constant depending on time.

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Electrical Characteristics of Organic Ferroelectric Memory Devices Fabricated on Elastomeric Substrate (엘라스토머 기판 상에 제작한 유기 강유전체 메모리 소자의 전기적 특성)

  • Jung, Soon-Won;Ryu, Bong-Jo;Koo, Kyung-Wan
    • The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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    • v.67 no.6
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    • pp.799-803
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    • 2018
  • We demonstrated memory thin-film transistors (MTFTs) with organic ferroelectric polymer poly(vinylidene fluoride-co-trifluoroethylene) and an amorphous oxide semiconducting indium gallium zinc oxide channel on the elastomeric substrate. The dielectric constant for the P(VDF-TrFE) thin film prepared on the elastomeric substrate was calculated to be 10 at a high frequency of 1 MHz. The voltage-dependent capacitance variations showed typical butterfly-shaped hysteresis behaviors owing to the polarization reversal in the film. The carrier mobility and memory on/off ratio of the MTFTs showed $15cm^2V^{-1}s^{-1}$ and $10^6$, respectively. This result indicates that the P(VDF-TrFE) film prepared on the elastomeric substrate exhibits ferroelectric natures. The fabricated MTFTs exhibited sufficiently encouraging device characteristics even on the elastomeric substrate to realize mechanically stretchable nonvolatile memory devices.