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US 2011/0033972 A1Published application
Programmable polyelectrolyte electrical switches
AssigneeLucent Technologies Inc.
InventorsOleksandr Sydorenko, Nikolai Zhitenev
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Abstract
An apparatus includes a first solid electrode on a substrate, a polyelectrolyte layer over a part of the first solid electrode, a second solid electrode on a portion of the polyelectrolyte layer, and an anchoring layer on the part of the first solid electrode. The polyelectrolyte layer is either chemically bonded to the anchoring layer or has a thickness of less than about 20 nanometers.
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A method, comprising:
- providing a first solid electrode on a substrate;
- forming a polyelectrolyte layer over part of the first solid electrode;
- and
- forming a second solid electrode on a portion of the polyelectrolyte layer;
- and
- wherein the act of forming a polyelectrolyte layer includes chemically bonding polymer molecules of the polyelectrolyte layer to an attachment region.
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A method, comprising:
- providing a first solid electrode on a substrate;
- forming a polyelectrolyte layer over part of the first solid electrode;
- and
- forming a second solid electrode on a portion of the polyelectrolyte layer, between the first and second solid electrodes the polyelectrolyte layer having a thickness of less than about 20 nanometers.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.