Patent ID: 8125039

Claim:
A one-time programmable, non-volatile field effect device comprising: a Field Effect Transistor (FET) device having a gate, a source, and a drain, with a channel between the source and the drain; and a nanotube switch comprising: a first terminal and a second terminal, wherein one of the first terminal and the second terminal is in electrical communication with one of the gate, the source, and the drain; and an article of non-woven nanotube fabric having a plurality of nanotubes electrically coupled to the first terminal, wherein the article of non-woven nanotube fabric is suspended over the second terminal and is physically spaced apart from the second terminal, and the article of non-woven nanotube fabric is capable of being deflected to form a non-volatile closed electrical state with the second terminal to enable electrical communication between the first terminal and the second terminal.