Patent ID: 7294877

Claim:
A non-volatile transistor device, comprising a source region and a drain region of a first semiconductor type of material; 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 structure including an electromechanically-deflectable nanotube switching element in spaced relation to the gate structure and capable of a deflected state and an undeflected state, wherein the device has a network of inherent capacitances, including an inherent capacitance between the gate structure and the nanotube switching element when the nanotube switching element is in the undeflected state, such that electrical stimulus at the control structure and at least one of the source and drain regions deflects the nanotube switching element into the deflected state and thus into contact with the gate structure.