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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 11, 2014
Filed:
Mar. 19, 2012
Applicants:
Chad S. Watson, Boise, ID (US);
William B. Knowlton, Boise, ID (US);
Peter Müllner, Boise, ID (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
Boise State University, Boise, ID (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 11/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A data storage method includes writing data to a ferromagnetic shape-memory material in its ferromagnetic state, the material exhibiting more than two stable states. A data storage device includes a non-volatile memory element containing a ferromagnetic shape-memory alloy in a martensite state, the shape-memory alloy being ferromagnetic in a plurality of stable states of the memory element.