Abstract: In accordance with an embodiment of the invention, there is provided a graphene ferroelectric device. The device comprises a graphene transistor channel and a ferroelectric gate of the graphene transistor channel, the ferroelectric gate comprising a linear polarization at a first applied gate voltage less than a threshold voltage, and a hysteretic polarization at a second applied gate voltage greater than the threshold voltage. The device may be configured to undergo optical switching of the graphene transistor channel between a high resistance state and a low resistance state in response to photoillumination of the device.

Abstract: The disclosed memory cell (10) comprises a graphene layer (16) having controllable resistance states representing data values of the memory cell (10) In one exemplary embodiment a non-volatile memory is provided by having a ferroelectric layer (18) control the resistance states. In the exemplary embodiment, binary ‘0’s and ‘1’s are respectively represented by low and high resistance states of the graphene layer (16), and these states are switched in a non-volatile manner by the polarization directions of the ferroelectric layer (18).