Nanodevice
AssigneeJapan Science and Technology Agency
InventorsYutaka Majima, Toshiharu Teranishi, Shinya Kano, Eiki Aoyama
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Abstract
A nanodevice capable of controlling the state of electric charge of a metal nanoparticle is provided. The device includes: nanogap electrodes 5 including one electrode 5A and the other electrode 5B disposed so as to have a nanosize gap in between; a nanoparticle 7 placed between the nanogap electrodes 5; and a plurality of gate electrodes 9. At least one of the plurality of gate electrodes 9 is used as a floating gate electrode to control the state of electric charge of the nanoparticle 7, which achieves a multivalued memory and rewritable logical operation.
Claims18
A nanodevice comprising:
- nanogap electrodes comprising one electrode and the other electrode so as to have a nanosized gap in between;
- a nanoparticle disposed between the nanogap electrodes;
- and
- a plurality of gate electrodes, wherein
- at least one of the plurality of gate electrodes is used as a floating gate electrode to control a state of electric charge of the nanoparticle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.