摘要:
The liquid crystal display device comprises a first substrate, a second substrate opposite to the first substrate, a plurality of switching elements formed on a face of the first substrate, which is opposite to the second substrate, a common electrode formed on a face of the second substrate, the face being opposite to the first substrate, a plurality of liquid crystal layers stacked on the second substrate to hold the common electrode between the layers and the second substrate, and arranged between the first and second substrates a plurality of projection electrodes selectively formed on the liquid crystal layers and a plurality of pixel electrode each formed on a corresponding one of the liquid crystal layers. The pixel electrodes respectively formed between a corresponding couple of the liquid crystal layers are connected to a corresponding one of the switching elements formed on the first substrate through one or several of the protrusion electrode/electrodes. The several protrusion electrodes are brought into contact at each of the boundaries of the adjacent liquid crystal layers and connected in cascade.
摘要:
A rewritable thermal recording medium comprises a recording material containing a color former and a developer. Recording-erasing of information is performed on the basis of a change in the state of the recording material. The developer is formed of a compound capable of forming a liquid crystal phase and/or represented by general formula (I) given below ##STR1## wherein Ar denotes a noncondensed polycyclic structure consisting of a plurality of ring structures connected to each other via any of a single bond, a vinylene bond and an ethynylene bond or a condensation polycyclic structure, X denotes an ether bond, a thioether bond, an ester bond or an amide bond, Y is an acidic group, R is a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group, a substituted or unsubstituted alkenyl group, or a substituted or unsubstituted alkynyl group, m is an integer of 1 to 3, and n is 0 or 1.
摘要:
A recording/reproducing head includes a laminated body facing to a recording medium, the body including a first conductive layer, a first insulating layer and a second conductive layer which are sequentially stacked. The first conductive layer generates electrons and injects the electrons into the recording medium through the first insulating layer.
摘要:
A phase change memory including at least a storage cell which includes a first electrode, an electrically conductive portion provided on the first electrode and having at least two electrically conductive bodies with approximately the same shape provided on the first electrode, the electrically conductive bodies being spaced by a high resistance film with a high resistance, a recording layer provided on the electrically conductive portion and having phase change material which can change between a first phase state with a first specific resistance and a second phase state with a second specific resistance different from the first specific resistance, and a second electrode provided on the recording layer.
摘要:
According to one embodiment, a method for manufacturing a magnetic recording medium includes forming patterns having protrusions and recesses of a ferromagnetic material onto a recording track section and a servo section on a substrate, forming a flattening film, a top surface of which is higher than that of the protrusion of the ferromagnetic material, onto the ferromagnetic material, and performing ion beam etching onto the flattening film up to a top surface of the protrusion of the ferromagnetic material, and determining an end point of flattening etching on the basis of a change in the total number of incident particles by means of an ion counter installed so as to be at an angle θ with respect to a perpendicular direction to the substrate in accordance with a material of the flattening film.
摘要:
A nonvolatile storage device includes a plurality of bit lines 21 arranged in a column direction on a substrate; a plurality of word lines 35 arranged in a row direction on the substrate; a memory cell array 20 having a plurality of memory cells 31, where a store state of each of the memory cells 31 changes according to an electric signal relatively applied to the word line 35 and the bit line 21; a word line selection unit having a needle 51 relatively movable with respect to the substrate which comes into contact with one word line 35, setting the word line 35 in contact with the needle 51 to a selection state; and a sense amplifier 48 detecting through the bit line an electrical signal exhibiting the store state of the memory cell 31 to be connected to the word line.
摘要:
An data recording device according to an aspect of the present invention includes a memory cell array in a memory chip, a refresh circuit which executes a refreshing of the memory cell array, a refresh control circuit which executes refreshing at a time interval which is shorter than a data hold time and manages a data hold time, and an internal power source which supplies a power source electric potential to the refresh circuit and the refresh control circuit in a state in which the data recording device is removed from an external device.
摘要:
A nonvolatile storage device includes a plurality of bit lines 21 arranged in a column direction on a substrate; a plurality of word lines 35 arranged in a row direction on the substrate; a memory cell array 20 having a plurality of memory cells 31, where a store state of each of the memory cells 31 changes according to an electric signal relatively applied to the word line 35 and the bit line 21; a word line selection unit having a needle 51 relatively movable with respect to the substrate which comes into contact with one word line 35, setting the word line 35 in contact with the needle 51 to a selection state; and a sense amplifier 48 detecting through the bit line an electrical signal exhibiting the store state of the memory cell 31 to be connected to the word line.
摘要:
An data recording device according to an aspect of the present invention includes a memory cell array in a memory chip, a refresh circuit which executes a refreshing of the memory cell array, a refresh control circuit which executes refreshing at a time interval which is shorter than a data hold time and manages a data hold time, and an internal power source which supplies a power source electric potential to the refresh circuit and the refresh control circuit in a state in which the data recording device is removed from an external device.
摘要:
Even if sizes of storage cells are reduced in a phase change memory, properties of the respective storage cells can be set to be approximately equal to one another and a current amount required for phase change can be reduced sufficiently. The phase change memory includes at least a storage cell. The storage cell includes a first electrode, an electrically conductive portion provided on the first electrode and having at least two electrically conductive bodies with approximately the same shape provided on the first electrode, the electrically conductive bodies being spaced by a high resistance film with a high resistance, a recording layer provided on the electrically conductive portion and having phase change material which can change between a first phase state with a first specific resistance and a second phase state with a second specific resistance different from the first specific resistance, and a second electrode provided on the recording layer.