Abstract:
A metal-insulator-metal layered structure is disclosed which is useful as a rectifier of AC voltage. One of the metal layers is advantageously in the form of a crossgrid-type geometry, in order to afford a large perimeter of contact with the insulator layer. Electrons are injected at the edges of the metal grid through the insulator when the grid goes electrically negative, but not when it goes positive; thereby, rectifying properties are afforded by this metal-insulator-metal structure.
Abstract:
In monolithic semiconductor devices of the type wherein storage and manipulation of electronic signals representing information are accomplished by the storage and sequential transfer of packets of excess minority carriers localized in artificially induced potential wells, predictable directionality of chargepacket transfer requires that the potential well be asymmetrical, at least during the transfer operation. The instant invention includes the use of overlapping gate electrodes and/or nonuniform dielectric thicknesses under the gate electrodes of MIS structures so that an appropriately asymmetrical potential well always is formed whenever a voltage is applied to any gate electrode.