Patent ID: 8072005
Filing Date: 2011-12-06
Classification: B82Y,G11C,H01L,H03K,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A method to construct a device comprised of a plurality of nanowires (NWs) each comprised of a core and at least one shell, comprising: providing a plurality of radially encoded NWs where each shell is comprised of one of a plurality of different shell materials; and differentiating individual ones of the NWs from one another by selectively removing or not removing shell material within areas to be electrically coupled to individual ones of a plurality of mesowires (MWs), where selectively removing or not removing comprises applying an etching process to the NWs using a plurality of sequentially applied etchants, where individual ones of the etchants are selected based on their ability to strongly etch one type of shell material but not strongly etch other types of shell material.