Patent ID: 8878276

Claim:
An apparatus comprising: a diode plug disposed upon a second-patterned portion of a semiconductive film, wherein the diode plug contacts a first wall, a second wall, a third wall, and a fourth wall of the semiconductive film; an electrode disposed above and on the diode plug; a shallow-trench isolation (STI) adjacent to the Schottky diode; and a variable-resistance material memory (VRMM) cell coupled to the electrode, wherein the variable-resistance material is a doped chalcogenide glass of A x B y , where B is one or more of sulfur, selenium, or tellurium and A is at least one element from B, Al, Ga, In, Tl, C, Si, Ge, Sn, Pb, N, P, As, Sb, Bi, F, Cl, Br, I, or At with dopants of one or more of Au, Ag, Pt, Cu, Cd, In, Ru, Co, Cr, Ni, Mn, or Mo.