Two-Dimensional Cs2Pb(SCN)2Br2-Based Photomemory Devices Showing a Photoinduced Recovery Behavior and an Unusual Fully Optically Driven Memory Behavior

Abstract

The rapid development of Internet of Things and big data has made the conventional storage devices face the need of reforming. Rather than using electrical pulses to store data in one of two states, photomemory exploiting optical stimulation to store light information emerges as a revolutionary candidate for the optoelectronic community. However, fully optically-driven photomemory with fast data transmission speed and outstanding energy saving capability suffers from less exploration. Herein, a transistor-type photomemory using a 2D Cs2Pb(SCN)2Br2/polymer hybrid floating gate is explored and three host polymers, polystyrene (PS), poly(4-vinylphenol) (PVPh), and polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP), are investigated to understand the relationship between polymer matrix selection and memory performance. All devices show a photo-induced recovery memory behavior but with two distinctly different photomemory behaviors. Besides the demonstration of a regular non-volatile photomemory showing a high on/off ratio of > 106 over 104 s, an unusual fully optically-driven memory behavior is intriguingly accomplished in the Cs2Pb(SCN)2Br2/PVP photomemory. Using white light serving as the driver of programming and blue laser acting as the main performer of erasing, this device can be switched between two distinguishable states and possesses acceptable data discriminability as evidenced by its fully optically-driven writing (programing)-reading-erasing-reading (WRER) switching function that shows an on/off current ratio of 103. This study not only presents the first 2D perovskite-based photomemory but also shows a novel fully optically-driven memory that has been rarely reported in the literature.