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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 20, 2018
Filed:
Apr. 12, 2017
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Urs T. Duerig, Rueschlikon, CH;
Armin W. Knoll, Rueschlikon, CH;
Elad Koren, Rueschlikon, CH;
Emanuel Loertscher, Rueschlikon, CH;
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
An electromechanical switching device includes a first electrode, comprising layers of a first 2D layered material, which layers exhibit a first surface; a second electrode, comprising layers of a second 2D layered material, which layers exhibit a second surface opposite the first surface; and an actuation mechanism; wherein each of the first and second 2D layered materials has an anisotropic electrical conductivity, which is lower transversely to its layers than in-plane with the layers; the first electrode includes two distinct areas alongside the first surface, which areas differ in at least one structural, electrical and/or magnetic property; and at least one of the first and second electrodes is actuatable by the actuation mechanism, such that actuation thereof for modification of an electrical conductance transverse to each of the first surface and the second surface to enable current modulation between the first electrode and the second electrode.