Promising candidates for the next-generation memory devices have emerged one after another for the last decade. Ferroelectric random access memories (FeRAM), magnetoresistive random access memories (MRAM), phase change memories (PCM) are indeed at the dawn of the international development races. Along with those three fascinating memories, we focus here on probably the most seminal candidate of...

this study presents the electric behavior of sandwich devices based on porous silicon (ps) thin films with au/ps/si/cu structure when the material’s surface is exposed to different gases. ps thin films were fabricated by the electrochemical anodization method of si–c (100) substrates with resistivity 1.4-2.6 ωcm. samples were anodized in a solution of hf (48%), c2h5oh (99.98%) and distilled wat...

Temperature and frequency dependencies of the electrical properties of SiO2/nanocrystalline Si (nc-Si)/SiO2 sandwich structures have been studied. A clear positive shift in capacitance-voltage (C-V) and conductance-voltage (G-V) characteristics suggests electron trapping in nc-Si dots. The role of interface states and deep traps in these devices has also been examined, which shows that they hav...

BACKGROUND Microelectrode array (MEA) devices are frequently used in neural circuit studies, especially in retinal prosthesis. For a high throughput stimulation and recording paradigm, it is desirable to obtain the responses of multiple surface RGCs initiated from the electrical signals delivered to multiple photoreceptor cells. This can be achieved by an high density MEA-tissue-MEA (MTM) sandw...

The elucidation of the effect of extracellular matrices on hepatocellular metabolism is critical to understand the mechanism of functional upregulation. We have developed a system using natural extracellular matrices [Adipogel] for enhanced albumin synthesis of rat hepatocyte cultures for a period of 10 days as compared to collagen sandwich cultures. Primary rat hepatocytes isolated from livers...

A graph G = (V,E) is a chordal probe graph if its vertices can be partitioned into two sets, P (probes) and N (non-probes), where N is a stable set and such that G can be extended to a chordal graph by adding edges between non-probes. We give several characterizations of chordal probe graphs, first, in the case of a fixed given partition of the vertices into probes and non-probes, and second, i...

A graph G s = (V , E s) is a sandwich for a pair of graphs G t = (V , E t) and G = (V , E) if E t ⊆ E s ⊆ E. A sandwich problem asks for the existence of a sandwich graph having an expected property. In a seminal paper, Golumbic et al. [Graph sandwich problems, J. Algorithms 19 (1995) 449–473] present many results on sub-families of perfect graphs. We are especially interested in comparability ...

We report the influence of zinc oxide (ZnO) seed layers on the performance of ZnO-based memristive devices fabricated using an electrodeposition approach. The memristive element is based on a sandwich structure using Ag and Pt electrodes. The ZnO seed layer is employed to tune the morphology of the electrodeposited ZnO films in order to increase the grain boundary density as well as construct h...

Abstract Organic photovoltaic (OPV) devices have the potential to be superior other PV technologies for use in applications that require very high flexibility or maximum specific power (power-per-weight ratio), such as textile integration, wearable electronics, outer space applications. However, OPV also encapsulation by barrier films reduce degradation driven extrinsic factors, which turn limi...

The demand for a new generation of high-temperature dielectric materials toward capacitive energy storage has been driven by the rise of high-power applications such as electric vehicles, aircraft, and pulsed power systems where the power electronics are exposed to elevated temperatures. Polymer dielectrics are characterized by being lightweight, and their scalability, mechanical flexibility, h...