Abstract: Multi-purpose food preparation kits for foods which include dough, at least a portion of which is exposed for cooking, browning, and crisping, and optionally rising. The kits include a support base of susceptor material elevated above a support surface by an elevator member either incorporated with a base or separate therefrom. Kits further include a ring component of susceptor material which surrounds the food product, and which is dimensioned larger than the initial dimensions of the food product, so as to be spaced therefrom, at least initially, prior to cooking. The space inside the ring component allows the dough to rise during cooking without obstruction by the susceptor ring and without imparting thermal energy from the susceptor ring to the dough surface. In one embodiment the susceptor base is provided in the form of a shipping carton.

Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide a method of forming a chalcogenide material containing device, and particularly resistance variable memory elements. A stack of one or more layers is formed over a substrate. The stack includes a layer of chalcogenide material and a metal, e.g., silver, containing layer. A protective layer is formed over the stack. The protective layer blocks light, is conductive, and is etchable with the other layers of the stack. Further, the metal of the metal containing layer is substantially insoluble in the protective layer. The stack and the protective layer are then patterned and etched to form memory elements.

Abstract: A susceptor tray has a susceptor surface of a platform positioned above a downwardly extending portion that has sidewall functions and that traps heated vapor within an open surface defined by the susceptor tray. A kit of the susceptor tray and a dough-containing food product has a storage mode which permits the food product to be stored within the open volume and out of contact with the susceptor surface. The planar portion of the tray includes openings including both a wide-dimensioned opening and a narrow-dimensioned opening in selected respective areas of the susceptor surface.

Abstract: A polygonal susceptor tray has a susceptor surface of a platform positioned above a downwardly extending portion that has sidewall functions and that traps heated vapor within an open surface defined by the susceptor tray. A kit of the susceptor tray and a dough-containing food product has a storage mode which permits the food product to be stored within the open volume and out of contact with the susceptor surface. The planar portion of the tray includes openings including both a wide-dimensioned opening and a narrow-dimensioned opening in selected respective areas of the susceptor surface.

Abstract: The invention is related to methods and apparatus for providing a two-terminal constant current device, and its operation thereof. The invention provides a constant current device that maintains a constant current over an applied voltage range of at least approximately 700 mV. The invention also provides a method of changing and resetting the constant current value in a constant current device by either applying a positive potential to decrease the constant current value, or by applying a voltage more negative than the existing constant current's voltage upper limit, thereby resetting or increasing its constant current level to its original fabricated value. The invention further provides a method of forming and converting a memory device into a constant current device. The invention also provides a method for using a constant current device as an analog memory device.

Abstract: Electrode structures, variable resistance memory devices, and methods of making the same, which minimize electrode work function variation. Methods of forming an electrode having a minimized work function variation include methods of eliminating concentric circles of material having different work functions. Exemplary electrodes include electrode structures having concentric circles of materials with different work functions, wherein this difference in workfunction has been minimized by recessing these materials within an opening in a dielectric and forming a third conductor, having a uniform work function, over said recessed materials.