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Diode-and-fuse memory elements for a write-once memory comprising an anisotropic semiconductor sheet

US6813182B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateMay 31, 2002
Grant dateNov 2, 2004
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Expiry dateJun 15, 2022

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH10K85/621
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A donor/acceptor-organic-junction sheet employed within an electronic memory array of a cross-point diode memory. The donor/acceptor-organic-junction sheet is anistropic with respect to flow of electrical current and is physically unstable above a threshold current. Thus, the volume of the donor/acceptor-organic-junction sheet between a row line and column line at a two-dimensional memory array grid point serves both as the diode component and as the fuse component of a diode-and-fuse memory element and is electrically insulated from similar volumes of the donor/acceptor-organic-junction sheet between neighboring grid point intersections.

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