This invention provides novel high density memory devices that are electrically addressable permitting effective reading and writing, that provide a high memory density (e.g., 1015 bits/cm3), that provide a high degree of fault tolerance, and that are amenable to efficient chemical synthesis and chip fabrication. The devices are intrinsically latchable, defect tolerant, and support destructive or non-destructive read cycles. In a preferred embodiment, the device comprises a fixed electrode electrically coupled to a storage medium comprising one or more thiol-derivatized porphyrins. The storage medium has a multiplicity of different and distinguishable oxidation states and data is stored in said oxidation states by the addition or withdrawal of one or more electrons from the storage medium via the electrically coupled electrode(s).
本发明提供了一种新型高密度存储器件,可进行有效的读写操作,提供高存储密度(例如,1015位/厘米3),具有高度的容错性,并且易于进行高效的
化学合成和芯片制造。这些器件具有固有的锁存、容错和支持破坏性或非破坏性读取循环的特性。在一种优选实施方案中,该器件包括一个固定电极,与一个包含一种或多种
硫醇衍生的
卟啉的存储介质电性耦合。该存储介质具有多种不同和可区分的氧化状态,并且通过向存储介质中添加或撤回一个或多个电子来在这些氧化状态中存储数据,通过电性耦合的电极实现。