Information Storage Using Inhibited Cathodoluminescence

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Bishop, H. E.  Henderson, R. P.  Iredale, P.  Pooley, D. 
Atomic Energy Research Establishment, Harwell, Didcot, Berks, England 

This paper appears in: Applied Physics Letters
Issue Date: Jun 1972
Volume: 20 Issue: 12
On page(s): 504 - 506
ISSN: 0003-6951
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1063/1.1654035
Date of Current Version: 18 June 2009

Abstract

It has been shown that reversible information storage in crystals can be achieved using the inhibition of cathodoluminescence by defects produced by electron irradiation. Since an electron beam of constant energy is used to access the store and to execute the binary operations of write, erase, and read, the addressing problems are minimized. The writing and erasing times are on the order of a few microseconds, and the reading time can be a few hundred nanoseconds.

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