HIGH-INFORMATION-DENSITY STORAGE SURFACES.

Abstract

The program is devoted to the preparation and investigation of novel electron-beam-addressable storage mosaics and to the construction of an experimental, large-capacity, high-speed data-storage system utilizing such mosaics. At present, emphasis is on so-called micro-cap mosaics, the elements of which are discrete, submicron-size capacitors at the bases of regular arrays of closely spaced holes in molybdenum/alumina/molybdenum film sandwiches on sapphire substrates. Further work is described on the use of a fine-mesh screen as an array of lenses for electron-sensitive resist exposure. First result of using (1) the screen-lens resist-exposure technique, (2) ion-beam sputtering of molybdenum, and (3) tantalum-fluoride etching of alumina in succession to form arrays of holes having the ultimate packing density are described. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 1969
Accession Number
AD0688178

Entities

People

  • Louis N. Heynick

Organizations

  • SRI International

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Capacitors
  • Charged Particles
  • Construction
  • Data Storage Systems
  • Electron Beams
  • Electrons
  • Elements
  • Fluorides
  • Ion Beams
  • Ions
  • Molybdenum
  • Packing Density
  • Sapphire
  • Sputtering
  • Substrates
  • Tantalum

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Nanofabrication and Microfabrication.
  • Systems Analysis and Design

Technology Areas

  • Directed Energy
  • Directed Energy - Pulsed-Laser Deposition
  • Microelectronics
  • Microelectronics - Graphene
  • Space
  • Space - Hall-Effect Thruster