摘要:
A method of manufacturing an electronic circuit comprises: providing an electronic circuit having a first configuration in which the circuit comprises a resistive element having a first resistance, and irradiating at least a part of the resistive element with electromagnetic radiation to change the resistance of the resistive element from the first resistance to a second resistance, the second resistance being lower than the first resistance. A method of storing data comprises: receiving a piece of data to be stored; determining a number according to the data; and irradiating at least part of a resistive element with that number of pulses of electromagnetic radiation to change a resistance of the resistive element from a first resistance to a second resistance, the second resistance being lower than the first resistance. A difference between the first resistance and the second resistance is dependent on the number. Corresponding circuits and data storage systems are disclosed.
摘要:
The invention refers to an ultrafast quench based nonvolatile bistable device which consists of an active material on a passive or active substrate which changes its physical properties, after exposure to a sufficiently temporally short external perturbation causing an ultrafast quench. The perturbation can be from an external ultrashort laser pulse or ultrafast electrical pulse from an electrooptic device or any other generator of ultrashort pulses. This change of the materials properties can be detected as a change of optical properties or electrical resistance. The dielectric properties can be reverted back to their original state by the application of a heat pulse applied by an electrical heater within the device or an external laser.
摘要:
The preferred embodiments of the present invention are devices and processes for producing high resolution lithography or pattern formation on the nanometer scale, using a voltage-biased probe that is slider-mounted along with, or separate from but linked to, a magnetic read head within a HDD mechanism. The probe is guided and positioned over a target layer by the motion of the read head which is, itself, guided by signals from servo tracks on a magnetic layer that activate an electromechanical servomechanism within the HDD. An electric field produced by the probe is capable of modifying the surface of the target layer over which the probe flies either directly, or by current induced or thermally induced effects. Targets such as amorphous or crystalline silicon can be hydrogen passivated and the electric field will produce oxidized or anodized lines with nanometer resolution.
摘要:
A storage device has a stator layer, an emitter layer, and a rotor layer. The rotor layer has a plurality of data clusters, each having a substrate which is electrically isolated from the other data clusters by a dielectric material. Another storage device has a means for electrically isolating a plurality of data clusters, each having phase change media coupled to a conductive substrate, from each other. The storage device also has a means for reading a differential signal from each of the data clusters based on currents which flow from the phase change media to the conductive substrate in each data cluster. A method of electrically isolating conductive regions on a micromover device is also provided.
摘要:
The record condition extraction system (1) of a dielectric recording medium is intended to obtain an applied voltage and an applied time length to be recorded when recording information in the dielectric recording medium. The record condition extraction system (1) is provided with: an applied voltage setting device (11); an applied time length setting device (12); a record control device (13); an applied voltage/applied time length record device (14); a record device (15); a dot radius measurement device (16); a dot radius record device (17); an optimum dot radius detection device (18); a record condition determination device (19); and an output device (20). The applied voltage setting device (11) and the applied time length setting device (12) set a voltage and a time applied to a probe (31) of the record device (15), respectively. The dot radius of a polarization domain 38, which is recorded at the record device (15), is measured at the dot radius measurement device (16), and the optimum polarization domain (38) is obtained at the optimum dot radius detection device (18). The applied voltage and the applied time length which have formed the polarization domain (38) are extracted as an optimum record condition.
摘要:
An embodiment of a read mechanism used in a contact atomic resolution storage system, has a cantilever disposed with a medium which is movable relative to the cantilever. The cantilever has a probe which extends from the cantilever and which contacts a surface of the medium. A pod is formed on a side of the cantilever facing the medium and extends toward the media. A sensor element is formed on the pod so as to juxtapose the medium.
摘要:
The present invention relates to an electrostatic information recording medium in which a charge retaining layer having high insulating properties is laminated on an electrode, and an electrostatic information recording/reproducing process wherein, while said electrostatic information recording medium is positioned in opposition to a photosensitive member on which a photoconductive layer is laminated, the recording medium is subjected to information exposure with the application of voltage between both electrodes to accumulate electrostatic charges thereon depending upon the dosage of said information exposure, and the electrostatic information thus accumulated is reproduced by potential reading. The present electrostatic information recording medium has an information density as expressed in terms of a high recording capacity of the order of 8.times.10.sup.8 bits/cm.sup.2, and makes it possible to process information in a planar state so that analog or digital information such as characters, line pictures, images, (0.multidot.1) information and sounds can be accumulated in the form of electrostatic charges. With the present electrostatic information recording medium, it is possible to obtain information of high quality and resolving power because of the information being accumulatable in electrostatic charge units. Due to its high charge retainability, it is further possible to store information permanently. Still further, it is possible to make inexpensive and simple recording/reproducing systems, since information can be output by reading local potentials of electrostatic latent images at any time and any scanning density.
摘要翻译:本发明涉及一种静电信息记录介质,其中具有高绝缘性的电荷保持层层压在电极上,以及静电信息记录/再现过程,其中当所述静电信息记录介质与感光构件相对置 在其上层叠有光电导层,根据所述信息曝光的剂量,通过施加两电极之间的电压来对记录介质进行信息曝光,以在其上累积静电电荷,并且通过潜在读数再现累积的静电信息。 本静电信息记录介质具有以8×10 8位/ cm 2的高记录容量表示的信息密度,并且使得可以在平面状态下处理信息,使得诸如字符,行等的模拟或数字信息 图像,图像,(0x1)信息和声音可以以静电电荷的形式累积。 利用本静电信息记录介质,由于信息可以在静电荷单元中累积,所以可以获得高质量和分辨能力的信息。 由于其高的电荷保持性,因此还可以永久地存储信息。 此外,由于可以通过在任何时间读取静电潜像的局部电位和任何扫描密度来输出信息,所以可以制造便宜且简单的记录/再现系统。
摘要:
The electrostatic information recording medium of the present invention has an electric charge retaining layer 11 stacked on at least an electrode layer 13, as shown in FIG. 1. The electric charge retaining layer is formed from either 1 a resin selected from among fluorocarbon resins and polystyrene resins, and an insulating organic substance having no photoconductivity. The electrostatic information recording medium may be produced, as shown in FIG. 5, by stacking an insulating resin layer 10 on an electrode layer 13, stacking a photoconductive or electrically conductive fine particle layer 11 on the insulating resin layer 10, and further stacking an insulating resin layer 12 on the fine particle layer 11 to a thickness of 0.1 .mu.m to 1 .mu.m. If the insulating resin layers 10 and 12 are formed by coating using a fluorocarbon resin solution, the electrostatic information recording medium can be produced with excellent processability.
摘要:
An electronic apparatus comprising a material having photoconductivity, an energy bandgap, and trap levels. The material is typified by a thin film of polycrystalline diamond. The material is illuminated with first light having photon energies smaller than the energy bandgap of the material. Then, the material is illuminated with second light having photon energies greater than the energy bandgap of the material to thereby induce a photocurrent. The amount of the first light can be known by measuring the induced photocurrent.
摘要:
This high-density optical data storage unit comprises a storage medium supported on a mechanically stable substrate, and a read/write arrangement employing a plurality of laser light sources and an interrogation light source. The laser light sources are designed as laser diodes attached to a substrate and optically aligned with an equal plurality of microlenses integrated in a first transparent layer. The read/write arrangement further comprises at least one second transparent layer, and an optional semitransparent conductive coating, said layer or said coating carrying a plurality of particulate protrusions which are also aligned with said diodes and said microlenses, said storage medium and said read/write arrangement being maintained in a mutually parallel alignment with a gap in between having a width of less than 100 nm. The protrusions in combination with the laser light sources produce dints in the medium which are representative of the data to be stored. The data is read by using the interrogation light source to produce light which is scattered by the dints and is then detected by the diodes.