• Title of article

    Negative differential resistance and sample conductivity in polypyrrole films

  • Author/Authors

    Gomis، نويسنده , , V. and Bellver، نويسنده , , D. and Ferrer-Anglada، نويسنده , , N. and Ribَ، نويسنده , , J.M. and El-Hachemi، نويسنده , , Z. and Movaghar، نويسنده , , B.، نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    دوماهنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2006
  • Pages
    7
  • From page
    1083
  • To page
    1089
  • Abstract
    An unusual negative differential resistance (NDR) has been observed in I–V response in p-toluensulfonate-doped polypyrrole films, leading to a conductivity switching effect of almost four orders of magnitude. The effect appears at temperatures below 20 K for highly conducting samples while it is displaced to temperatures close to the room temperature for more resistive samples. The observed correlation between conductivity and switching phenomenon provides a fingerprint of the influence played by the sample nanostructure. The relation between the chemical structure of the material and the observed physical phenomenon is discussed.
  • Keywords
    conducting polymer , Polypyrrole , Metal–insulator phase transition , electrical conductivity
  • Journal title
    Synthetic Metals
  • Serial Year
    2006
  • Journal title
    Synthetic Metals
  • Record number

    2083533