METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ELECTRO-OPTICAL DISK MEMORY

摘要

Methods and apparatus are described for a rewritable disk memory (101) using an electro-optical molecular recording layer (107). In the manner of nanotechnology, each molecule (109) is an individual witch having two distinct optical characteristic states. Localized electrical field injection (FIG 2) is used to switch each molecule to one of two bistable states such that each is representative of a data bit.