Patent ID: 7112493

Claim:
A method of making a non-volatile field effect device, comprising the acts of: providing a substrate with a semiconductor field effect device formed therein, said semiconductor field effect device including a source, drain and gate with a field-modulatable channel between the source and drain, wherein the field-modulatable channel is a semiconductive region on the substrate between the source and drain and which changes its conductive properties in response to an electric field from the gate; forming an electromechanically-deflectable, nanotube switching element over the semiconductor field effect device, wherein said nanotube switching element is constructed to non-volatilely store its state; providing terminals and corresponding interconnect to correspond to each of the source, drain and gate of the semiconductor field effect device such that the nanotube switching element is electrically positioned between one of the source, drain and gate and its corresponding terminal, and such that the others of said source, drain and gate are directly connected to their corresponding terminals.