WO1991013440A1 - Membrane memory system - Google Patents
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- WO1991013440A1 WO1991013440A1 PCT/US1991/001021 US9101021W WO9113440A1 WO 1991013440 A1 WO1991013440 A1 WO 1991013440A1 US 9101021 W US9101021 W US 9101021W WO 9113440 A1 WO9113440 A1 WO 9113440A1
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- G11B11/00—Recording on or reproducing from the same record carrier wherein for these two operations the methods are covered by different main groups of groups G11B3/00 - G11B7/00 or by different subgroups of group G11B9/00; Record carriers therefor
- G11B11/03—Recording on or reproducing from the same record carrier wherein for these two operations the methods are covered by different main groups of groups G11B3/00 - G11B7/00 or by different subgroups of group G11B9/00; Record carriers therefor using recording by deforming with non-mechanical means, e.g. laser, beam of particles
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- G11B—INFORMATION STORAGE BASED ON RELATIVE MOVEMENT BETWEEN RECORD CARRIER AND TRANSDUCER
- G11B11/00—Recording on or reproducing from the same record carrier wherein for these two operations the methods are covered by different main groups of groups G11B3/00 - G11B7/00 or by different subgroups of group G11B9/00; Record carriers therefor
- G11B11/08—Recording on or reproducing from the same record carrier wherein for these two operations the methods are covered by different main groups of groups G11B3/00 - G11B7/00 or by different subgroups of group G11B9/00; Record carriers therefor using recording by electric charge or by variation of electric resistance or capacitance
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- G11B7/00—Recording or reproducing by optical means, e.g. recording using a thermal beam of optical radiation by modifying optical properties or the physical structure, reproducing using an optical beam at lower power by sensing optical properties; Record carriers therefor
- G11B7/004—Recording, reproducing or erasing methods; Read, write or erase circuits therefor
- G11B7/0045—Recording
- G11B7/00451—Recording involving ablation of the recording layer
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- G11B—INFORMATION STORAGE BASED ON RELATIVE MOVEMENT BETWEEN RECORD CARRIER AND TRANSDUCER
- G11B9/00—Recording or reproducing using a method not covered by one of the main groups G11B3/00 - G11B7/00; Record carriers therefor
- G11B9/10—Recording or reproducing using a method not covered by one of the main groups G11B3/00 - G11B7/00; Record carriers therefor using electron beam; Record carriers therefor
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- This invention relates to a method of recording electronic data with high bit density on a substrate of a selected metal and to achieve a high bit density quick access electronic recording or storage medium prepared by the said metho .
- a tape memory recording system offers a larger storage capability (up to 10 13 bits) but access times for such tape systems are of the order of minutes.
- Typical existing quick access memory recording systems comprise magnetic or optical disk units including appropriate means of reading and writing the disk under the direction of laser systems controlled by semiconductor computer devices.
- Such known memory recording systems are vulnerable to high radiation fluxes such as those caused by a nuclear bomb exploded in the atmosphere and no satisfactory solution has been found yet for the protection of existing memory systems against such damage.
- the production of a quick access memory recording system resistant to damage caused by such high radiation fluxes is becoming increasingly important.
- One object of the present invention is to provide a high bit density, quick access, electronic memory recording or storage device for general use in the storage of information and with the special advantage that the storage device is not vulnerable to damage by high radiation fluxes.
- the pores are not all of precisely the same size and shape as in the case of the pores of a honeycomb but the pores produced by the anodizing process described by L. Young have a generally regular pattern and have thin walls. The thickness of the ceramic membrane may be anything between 200 Angstroms and 100 microns or more and the pore diameter is determined by the operating conditions of the process.
- the process described by L. Young is interesting and in a paper by Rigby, Cowleson, Davles and Furneaux a porous membrane structure similar to that described by L. Young is proposed for use in a wide variety of laboratory filtration applications by separating the porous membrane structure from the substrate. USA Patent No.
- the present invention takes advantage of the fact that the micro porous structure of an anodized substrate has an ideal form for use as a memory recording medium due to the fact that the pores provide a substantially regular honeycomb matrix membrane above the barrier layer, between the membrane and the substrate, and that the barrier layer can be penetrated or not penetrated as desired to denote positive and negative binary information.
- a method of recording electronic data with high bit density on a substrate of a selected metal which has been anodized to provide a surface layer of a microporous ceramic matrix membrane of substantially regular vertical pores separated from the selected metal of the substrate by a barrier layer at the bottom of each pore, wherein the method comprises ablating the barrier layer at the bottom of selected pores in accordance with a predetermined plan to provide a memory, storage device comprising a pattern of ablated and non ablated pores to denote positive and negative binary information bits. With pore diameters around 20 Angstroms the pore density is about 10 per centimetre squared.
- the ceramic membrane is produced on the substrate using the anodization procedure, the basis of which is described in the book by L.
- the metals capable of forming porous oxide films when anodized are the group of so called 'valve* metals, namely. Aluminium, Tantalum, Niobium, Zirconium, Hafnium, and other selected metals such as Tungsten, Bismuth, Antimony, Beryllium, Magnesium, Silicon, Germanium, Tin, Titanium, Uranium and Zinc, all of the above metals being referred to herein as 'selected metals' and the preferred order of the selected metals is as written.
- One method of inserting and extracting information in to and from the microporous structure is to use a slightly modified form of the electron optics of a scanning electron microscope (SEM) .
- SEM scanning electron microscope
- the modification required to a standard unit is to make it possible for the voltage driving the beam to be rapidly increased when a positive bit is required to be inserted. This increase in voltage must be sufficient to increase the energy of the beam to a level which causes the beam to ablate away the thin barrier layer to provide direct contact to the metal substrate beneath.
- the increased beam current occurring when the beam alights on an ablated pore, as compared with the beam from an unablated pore is used to distinguish between positive and negative bits.
- Another method of information insertion and extraction is to employ a narrow laser beam with a diameter of the order of 0.25 microns, which is close to the limiting diameter of the laser beams determined by diffraction.
- Either an infrared (IR) or an ultra-violet (UV) laser may be used for data insertion, the IR laser piercing the barrier layer thermally and the UV laser piercing the barrier layer by chemical ionization.
- the laser head used for insertion and extraction may be mounted above the microporous structure and may be moved using electro-acoustic field effects or mechanically on a spiral or rectilinear raster.
- the distinction between positive and negative bits is made by measuring the strength of the reflected beam.
- the difference in magnitude between the reflective characteristics of the ceramic barrier layer and that of the substrate is sufficient for effective measurement and is usually at least an order of magnitude.
- the laser system may be operated at atmospheric pressure and is thus less expensive to manufacture and to operate than the SEM system, that must be operated at reduced pressure.
- To access each pore of the smallest microporous structure individually requires the two dimensional coordinates of the pores to be recorded to an appropriate precision of around 20 Angstroms. Clearly this requires a large amount of information to be stored.
- the system may therefore be arranged so that a single positive or negative binary bit is represented by a group comprising a plurality, for example seven adjacent pores.
- the pore groups may be arranged so that the groups may be scanned by a beam on a square, rectilinear, crossed line or spiral raster thus reducing the information overhead required to locate an information bit or bit group.
- bit groups as described above enables the required beam width to be increased, each bit group preferably being selected so that a central pore is surrounded by six other pores symmetrically disposed substantially in hexagonal formation.
- the groups of seven pores may be scanned by a rapidly moving beam of three times the diameter of that appropriate to a single pore location system.
- microporous structure forming the memory storage device of the present invention is resistant to damage caused by high radiation fluxes and is complementary to recently emerging hard valve and attack computers now being developed for military purposes.
- Figure 1 shows a plan view of a typical high density microporous structure for use as a memory storage device in accordance with the invention.
- Figure 2 shows an idealized side elevation of the vertical pore structure
- Figure 3 shows diagrammatically an impression of a laser beam of 6000 Angstroms in diameter covering seven pore groups of 2000 Angstrom pores.
- Figure 1 indicates an array of single pores of 2000 Angstroms diameter and Figure 3 indicates a group of seven such pores that may be used to represent a single positive or negative binary bit. Beam searching for such seven pore groups may be done on a square rectilinear crossed line raster or spiral raster and much less total information bits are required to find a particular individual hexagonal group of pores than by using individual pores.
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GB909003829A GB9003829D0 (en) | 1990-02-20 | 1990-02-20 | Improvement in the novel concept of electronic storage memories |
GB9003832.4 | 1990-02-20 | ||
GB909003832A GB9003832D0 (en) | 1990-02-20 | 1990-02-20 | A novel information memory for use with computers and reproduction systems |
GB9003829.0 | 1990-02-20 | ||
GB9003831.6 | 1990-02-20 | ||
GB909003831A GB9003831D0 (en) | 1990-02-20 | 1990-02-20 | Electronic permanent ceramic memories to intense radiation flux environments |
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