US 11,943,940 B2
Nucleic acid-based electrically readable, read-only memory
Joshua Hihath, Davis, CA (US); Manjeri P. Anantram, Seattle, WA (US); and Yonggang Ke, Atlanta, GA (US)
Assigned to The Regents of the University of California, Oakland, CA (US); University of Washington, Seattle, WA (US); and Emory University, Atlanta, GA (US)
Appl. No. 17/253,088
Filed by The Regents of the University of California, Oakland, CA (US); University of Washington, Seattle, WA (US); and Emory University, Atlanta, GA (US)
PCT Filed Jul. 11, 2019, PCT No. PCT/US2019/041396
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Dec. 16, 2020,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/014478, PCT Pub. Date Jan. 16, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/696,734, filed on Jul. 11, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2022/0005870 A1, Jan. 6, 2022
Int. Cl. H01L 27/28 (2006.01); H10K 10/50 (2023.01); H10K 19/00 (2023.01); H10K 85/00 (2023.01)
CPC H10K 19/202 (2023.02) [H10K 10/50 (2023.02); H10K 85/761 (2023.02)] 29 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A cross-wire memory apparatus, comprising:
(a) a first plurality of nucleic acid-based nanowires;
(b) a second plurality of nucleic acid-based nanowires; wherein each nanowire in the first plurality of nucleic acid-based nanowires crossing over a nanowire in the second plurality of nucleic acid-based nanowires; and
(c) a plurality of conductive memory elements, each said memory element connecting a first nanowire with a second nanowire; wherein each said memory element having a controlled conductance to encode a data bit.