Superconducting bipolar thermoelectric memory and method for writing a superconducting bipolar thermoelectric memory

Abstract

A superconducting bipolar thermoelectric memory includes a memory cell, a connection in parallel between a bipolar thermoelectric element and a predetermined resistive load, and a writing element. A current generator is arranged to send an injected current to the thermoelectric element and the resistive load. The thermoelectric element is arranged to be heated by a predetermined thermal gradient and to generate corresponding output voltages on the resistive load depending on the sign of the injected current at the writing stage. The output voltages correspond to respective stable logic states stored by the memory resetting the bias current to zero.

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