Three-dimensional two-photon memory materials and systems

Joseph Earl Ford; Susan Hunter; Ram Piyaket; Yeshaiahu Fainman; Sadik C. Esener; Alexander S. Dvornikov; Peter M. Rentzepis

doi:10.1117/12.144058

27 April 1993 Three-dimensional two-photon memory materials and systems

Joseph Earl Ford, Susan Hunter, Ram Piyaket, Yeshaiahu Fainman, Sadik C. Esener, Alexander S. Dvornikov, Peter M. Rentzepis

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Proceedings Volume 1853, Organic and Biological Optoelectronics; (1993) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.144058
Event: OE/LASE'93: Optics, Electro-Optics, and Laser Applications in Scienceand Engineering, 1993, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Abstract

We have been developing a two-photon 3-D memory expected to provide a Tbit storage capacity and a 1 ms access time for secondary storage. Even with this new technology, there still exists a four order of magnitude gap in access times between electronic RAMS and secondary storage. In addition to the existing permanent storage approach, we have begun working on systems, key components, and materials for a dynamic parallel-access 3-D two photon memories that will bridge the gap in primary memory technologies. Over the past three years our team has been developing a write-once mass-storage memory based on two-photon bond dissociation of spirobenzopyran molecules for long lifetime storage. A cache memory must have fast write-erase capability. To achieve this we are beginning to investigate highly sensitive two-photon materials which spontaneous decay (self-erase) to the off state. These materials will be incorporated into dynamic memory systems which continually refresh the memory contents, as in an electronic DRAM. The resulting memory is expected to provide a data capacity of 1 Gbit/cm³ with a 10 ns to 1 microsecond(s) access time and a 10 Tbit/s data rate. In this presentation the latest results of the parallel-access 3-D volume memory using two-photon storage is discussed. We cover material and system considerations for both types of parallel-access memories: fast-access primary storage and large-capacity secondary storage.

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Joseph Earl Ford, Susan Hunter, Ram Piyaket, Yeshaiahu Fainman, Sadik C. Esener, Alexander S. Dvornikov, and Peter M. Rentzepis "Three-dimensional two-photon memory materials and systems", Proc. SPIE 1853, Organic and Biological Optoelectronics, (27 April 1993); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.144058

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