Japan Science and Technology Agency

Shinya Kano

Yutaka Majima

Toshiharu Teranishi

Yasuo Azuma

Masanori Sakamoto

Eiki Aoyama

Daniel Eduardo Hurtado Salinas

A nanodevice capable of controlling the state of electric charge of a metal nanoparticle is provided. The device includes: nanogap electrodesincluding one electrodeA and the other electrodeB disposed so as to have a nanosize gap in between; a nanoparticleplaced between the nanogap electrodes; and a plurality of gate electrodes. At least one of the plurality of gate electrodesis used as a floating gate electrode to control the state of electric charge of the nanoparticle, which achieves a multivalued memory and rewritable logical operation.

Nanodevice

Provided is an electronic element that functions as a switch or memory without using metal nanoparticle. The electronic element includes: one electrodeA and an other electrodeB arranged to have a nanogap therebetween; and halide ionprovided between the electrodesA andB; and on one of the electrodes.

Electronic element

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Yokohama, Japan

Shinya Kano