Abstract: The field programmable read-only memory device includes a memory cell having a switching element for storing bit information. The switching element provides a switchable electrical connection between a word line and a bit line and includes a static body and a movable connecting element. The switchable electrical connection is non-volatile.
Abstract: An activatable nanoprobe is provided having a core component and an active agent associated with the core component via a bond configured to be cleaved upon exposure to an endogenous compound.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
June 11, 2012
Date of Patent:
July 29, 2014
Assignee:
University of Central Florida Research Foundation, Inc.
Abstract: A nonvolatile carbon nanotube memory device using multiwall carbon nanotubes and methods of operating and fabricating the same are provided. The nonvolatile memory device may include a substrate, at least one first electrode on the substrate, first and second vertical walls on the at least one first electrode spaced from each other, a multiwall carbon nanotube on the at least one first electrode between the first and second vertical walls, second and third electrodes on the first and second vertical walls respectively and at least one fourth electrode spaced a variable distance D (where D?0) from the multiwall carbon nanotubes.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
January 3, 2007
Date of Patent:
November 9, 2010
Assignee:
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
Inventors:
Leonid Maslov, Jin-Gyoo Yoo, Cheol-Soon Kim
Abstract: A molecular-based switching device and method for controlling charge transport across a molecule. The molecular-based switching device includes a molecule having first and second nodes in between which destructive quantum interference restricts electrical conduction from the first node to the second node in an off-state, a first electrode connected to the first node and configured to supply charge carriers to the first node, a second electrode connected to the second node and configured to remove the charge carriers from the second node, and a control element configured to reduce coherence in or alter charge transport paths between the first and second nodes so as to reduce existing destructive quantum interference and permit flow of the charge carriers from the first node to the second node.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
March 20, 2007
Date of Patent:
August 31, 2010
Assignee:
Arizona Board of Regents/Behalf of University of Arizona
Inventors:
Charles Allen Stafford, David Michael Cardamone, Sumitendra Mazumdar
Abstract: An improved microelectromechanical switch assembly comprises a linearly movable switch rod constrained via a switch bearing, the switch rod being actuated by electrostatic deflection. Movement of the switch rod to one end of its travel puts the switch assembly in a closed state while movement of the switch rod to the other end of its travel puts the switch assembly in an open state. In an embodiment of the invention, one or both of the switch rod and the switch bearing are fabricated of a carbon nanotube. The improved microelectromechanical switch assembly provides low insertion loss and long lifetime in an embodiment of the invention.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
March 18, 2005
Date of Patent:
November 25, 2008
Assignee:
Cabot Microelectronics Corporation
Inventors:
Heinz H. Busta, Ian W. Wylie, Gary W. Snider
Abstract: A method includes providing a crossbar array including a programmable material layer, wherein the crossbar array is configured to function as part of a signal processing system and reprogramming at least one impedance value of the programmable material layer formed at crosspoints of the crossbar array to change the signal processing system.
Abstract: A signal processing system is taught to be formed by combining a crossbar array with programming circuitry and signal input circuitry so as to provide a linear transformation from a set of input signals to a set of output signals. Applications of such a system to waveform generation, signal filtering, communications, and pattern recognition are explained. In one embodiment the crossbar array of the signal processing system may be a molecular nanowire crossbar array in which the crossbar interconnects are addressed via dual arrays of scanning probe tips so as to provide an interface between the molecular crossbar electronics and conventional solid state electronics used in the programming and signal processing circuitry.
Abstract: An electronic device includes a source region and a drain region, a self-assembled monolayer disposed adjacent to the source region and the drain region, the self-assembled monolayer including at least one conjugated molecule, and a conductive substrate disposed adjacent to the self-assembled monolayer.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
March 21, 2003
Date of Patent:
November 7, 2006
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation