MNOS capacitor arrays for electrical and optical stores

The work on charge-coupled devices has demonstrated the advantages of using MIS capacitor arrays as shift registers and vidicons. In this paper other ways of using MIS capacitor arrays are described with particular emphasis on storage arrays based on the MNOS capacitor element. By using the MNOS capacitor rather than the transistor as the storage device it is possible to construct read-mainly programmable memories of much simpler design.