New organic bistable ®lms for ultrafast electric memories

Thin ®lms which have electrical bistable effects are mostly metal-organic complexes and/or organic-organic (all-organic) complexes. Very recently some simple (mono-molecular) organic materials have been discovered which have bistable states at room temperature, too. The threshold voltage across these organic ®lms with a thickness of 60 nm is 4±6 Vand the transition time is 5±10 ns. Therefore, they are suitable to make ultrafast, non-volatile, organic memories (WORM or EPROM). Another possible application for an STM type ultrahigh-capacity memory is also illustrated. # 2001 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.