Patent ID: 8089115

Claim:
An organic memory device comprising: a first electrode, a second electrode, and an active layer and a self-assembled charge storage layer disposed between the first and second electrodes, the self-assembled charge storage layer comprising a film of an organic dielectric material having nanostructures and/or nano-particles of a charge-storing material, wherein each of the nanostructures and/or nano-particles are separated from each other without coating or surface modification of the nanostructures and/or nano-particles, and wherein the self-assembled charge storage layer is selected from the group consisting of: a self-assembled copolymer layer containing nanostructures and/or nano-particles that have been reduced in situ from a precursor in a copolymeric solution, and a self-assembled monolayer to which the nanostructures and/or nano-particles have affinity and on which the nanostructures and/or nano-particles are provided.