Patent ID: 7075141

Claim:
A non-volatile transistor device, comprising: a source region and a drain region of a first semiconductor type of material and each in electrical communication with a respective terminal; a channel region of a second semiconductor type of material disposed between the source and drain region; a gate structure made of at least one of semiconductive or conductive material and disposed over an insulator over the channel region; a control gate made of at least one of semiconductive or conductive material and in electrical communication with a respective terminal; an electromechanically-deflectable nanotube switching element in electrical communication with one of the gate structure and the control gate structure and positioned to be electromechanically deflectable into contact with the other of the gate structure and the control gate structure, wherein when the nanotube switching element is in communication with both the control gate and the gate structure, the control gate may be used to modulate the conductivity of the channel region.