Patent ID: 6381169
Filing Date: 2002-04-30
Classification: B82Y,C07D,C07F,G11B,G11C,H01L,Y10S

Abstract:
An apparatus for storing data, said apparatus comprising:a fixed electrode electrically coupled to a storage medium having a multiplicity of different and distinguishable oxidation states wherein data is stored in said oxidation states by the addition or withdrawal of one or more electrons from said storage medium via the electrically coupled electrode, wherein said storage medium comprises a molecule selected from the group consisting of a porphyrinic macrocycle, a metallocene, a linear polyene, a cyclic polyene, a heteroatom-substituted linear polyene, a heteroatom-substituted cyclic polyene, a tetrathiafalvalene, a tetraselenafulvalene, a metal coordination complex, a buckyball, a triarylamine, a 1,4-phenylenediamine, a xanthene, a flavin, a phenazine, a phenothiazine, an acridine, a quinoline, a 2,2â€²-bipyridyl, a 4,4â€²-bipyridyl, a tetrathiotetracene, and a peri-bridged naphthalene dichalcogenide.