摘要:
A circular memory device includes a plurality of bottom electrodes, a plurality of top electrodes, a ferroelectric layer, and a plurality of memory storage locations within the ferroelectric layer at a crossover point of each of the bottom electrodes and each top electrode. Contact pads of the bottom electrodes and top electrodes may include a perimeter that defines an annular sector that allows a memory operation to be performed on the circular memory device across a range of rotational positions. In an example implementation, the memory operation may be performed on the circular memory device regardless of the rotational orientation of the circular memory device relative to a reader.
摘要:
According to the present invention, there is provided a recording medium comprising a substrate, a platinum layer formed on the substrate and having a (111) plane preferentially oriented, and a fullerene single crystal thin film formed on the platinum layer, and configured to be a recording layer, wherein an average value of average surface roughness Ra's with respect to four or more visual fields measured by using an atomic force microscope in a surface of the fullerene thin film is 0.5 nm or less.
摘要:
An information recording/reading head (110), wherein the probes thereof are disposed so that, where the positions of the tip parts of the probes are A, B, C, and D, a parallelogram having straight lines AB and CD parallel with each other and straight lines AC and BD parallel with each other can be formed, and where the ratio of the length of the straight line AB to the length of the straight line AC is η and the height of the parallelogram when the straight line AC is taken as the bottom side thereof is H, the requirement of H = η·P can be satisfied.
摘要:
A probe (100) is provided with a board (110) having a surface which faces a medium (20), and a point electrode (120) formed in the board for at least detecting or changing the conditions of a minute area in the medium. A leading edge part, which is an edge part on a side facing the medium among the point electrodes, is arranged within a plane formed by the surface of the board in the periphery of an area part whereupon the point electrodes are formed.
摘要:
A stable and high-sensitivity nanometer-order mechanical vibrator having a detection resolution for nanometer-order jumpy force and mass change, a production method therefor, and a measuring device using it. The nanometer-order mechanical vibrator (10) comprises a base (11), a tetrahedron-shape vibrator mass (13), a neck portion (12) connecting the base (11) and the vibrator mass (13) together and having an elastic element. The vibrator (10) is of a nanometer-order mushroom shape. The vibrator mass (13) in a tetrahedron shape is suitable for a probe of a scanning type microscope for observing the surface conditions of an arbitrary sample by bringing the mass (13) as a probe close to the sample surface.
摘要:
A nanometric mechanical oscillator comprising a parallel-spring supported portion including two triangular-pyramidal probes which are formed on a semiconductor substrate such that the probes project inward in an overhung state and are connected to each other. A nanometric mechanical oscillator comprising a parallel-spring supported portion including a probe assuming the form of a triangular prism projecting from a semiconductor substrate. A nanometric mechanical oscillator comprising a parallel-spring supported portion including a mass formed on a semiconductor substrate and assuming the shape of a truncated rectangular pyramid.
摘要:
Provided is a probe for a data storage apparatus. The probe includes a coating layer formed on a tip of the probe, wherein a peak of the tip is exposed and the coating layer and the peak form a predetermined contact area with respect to a recording medium. In addition, the probe may also include an insulating layer formed between the coating layer and the tip of the probe. The coating layer, the insulating layer, and the peak of the tip have a predetermined contact area with respect to the recording medium. Consequently, the probe can obtain high resolving ability by using a sharp-type tip and simultaneously can reduce the degree of abrasion of the peak of the tip, thereby resulting in an excellent durability.
摘要:
The probes of an information recording / reading head (110) are arranged such that if the positions of their tip portions are A, B, C, and D, a parallelogram is formed in which a line segment AB is parallel to a line segment CD, and a line segment AC is parallel to a line segment BD, and that if a ratio of the length of the line segment AB to the length of the line segment AC is η and the height of the parallelogram is H when the line segment AC is regarded as a base, the following relationship is satisfied: H= η · P.
摘要:
A measurement apparatus using a nanometric mechanical oscillator comprising:
(a) a base; (b) an oscillator mass; and (c) an elastic neck portion for connecting the base and the oscillator mass: characterized in that the oscillator mass is a tetrahedral shape and the neck portion is a very thin single columnar shape whose diameter is smaller than the size of supported surface of the oscillator mass whereby characteristics of a sample are measured by oscillation of the oscillator mass caused by the sample.
摘要:
Method and apparatus (10) for storing digital information in a dense memory structure. A semiconductor substrate (12) has a thin insulating layer (14) formed thereon. Over the thin insulating layer (14) is formed a dielectric charge-storage layer (16). A piezoelectric bimorph cantilever arm (30) has a tip (32) formed at its free end to access certain memory sites defined by charge-storage regions (40, 42, 44) in the charge-storage layer (16). To write information in the form of charges into a memory site tip (32) contacts or is in close proximity to the surface of the charge-storage layer (16) and an electric field is applied between the tip (32) and the substrate (12) to induce charges to tunnel through the thin insulating layer (14) into the charge-storage layer (16) where the charges are stored as trapped charges. Information is read from a storage-site by spacing the tip (32) of the cantilever arm (30) a distance (d) from the surface of the charge storage layer (16) and applying an electric field between the tip (32) and the substrate (12). The capacitive force on the tip (32) is then measured to determine the amount of charge stored in that memory site. Alternatively charge is deposited directly on the surface of a single insulating layer. Charge sites are arranged in circular tracks on a rotating substrate (52) to provide a high density memory array (50). Charge sites are also arranged in linear tracks by forming alternating layers of conductive (62) and non-conductive (64) substrate layers over which are formed thin insulating layers (68) and charge-storage layers (70). This produces a number of spaced-apart charge-storage tracks. Tracks are also provided by depositing metal strips (70) or scribing grooves (80) on the surface of a device.