Patent ID: 7960217
Filing Date: 2011-06-14
Classification: B82Y,H01L

Abstract:
1. Procedure for the production of a switching element characterized in that the switching element has three electrodes which are located in an electrolyte and whereby two of them (“source” and “drain”) are connected to each other by means of a bridge made up of one or several atoms which can be reversibly opened and closed and the opening and closing of this contact between source and drain electrode can be controlled by a potential applied to the third electrode (gate electrode), whereby the production of the switching element is carried out by repeatedly applying potential cycles between the gate electrode and the source or drain electrode, respectively, whereby the potential during the potential cycles is increased and subsequently lowered as long as due to the change of the potential at the gate electrode the conductance value between source and drain electrodes can reproducibly be switched between two conductance values as a function of the potential of the gate electrode.