The
synthesis of carbon nitride supported lead oxide nanoparticles
(CNLO) has been reported by the pyrolysis of urea under ambient pressure
and high-temperature conditions in the presence of lead nitrate. The
X-ray diffraction analysis confirmed the formation of α-PbO,
and the microscopic image showed highly dispersed oxide nanoparticles
on the carbon nitride matrix. The optical property exhibited the characteristics
vibrational bands that indicate the presence of the graphitic form
of carbon nitride structure in the synthesized material. The electrical
property of the device made with CNLO, as active material, showed
the bipolar resistive switching effect with moderately high ON to
OFF ratio, where the transport property of the device was justified
by the Poole–Frenkel emission and ohmic conduction mechanism
for the low and high conductance states, respectively. The device
showed a sustained amount of endurance and retention property with
a comparable ON–OFF ratio. The aptitude of processing, storing
and recovering of binary information using CNLO based device, with
the size of 8-bit, was also demonstrated in this study.