ok there is a flash drive. we will imagine there is a little [] with some electrons in it. If one of the walls of the [] had a little _|-| thing at it, then different tunneling voltages would one, two, or more bits. Each multibit E] could have multiple data pathways from it prior to being multiplexed-- beanangel, Jun 10 2017 memristor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memristor [xaviergisz, Jun 11 2017] MLC memory, different than this idea it uses steps of current rather than voltage to store multiple bits https://na.industri...ory-types-explained [beanangel, Jun 12 2017] [marked-for-incoherence]-- 8th of 7, Jun 10 2017 I think the word is "decoherence".-- MaxwellBuchanan, Jun 10 2017 Sounds like Q*bert field dynamics.
B] connect the levels for non binary values.-- wjt, Jun 11 2017 Is this not just MLC flash memory?-- notexactly, Jun 11 2017 Q*bert is easier to understand than quantum physics.-- RayfordSteele, Jun 12 2017 Actually it is different than MLC. With MLC same sized containers hole different numbers of electrons. With this idea, which looks a little like a ziggurat shape, the voltage drives (tunnels) electrons across the barrier, which varies thickness stepwise. So varied voltages represent different bits.
Although MLC has similarities the tunneling barrier is not ziggurat shaped.-- beanangel, Jun 12 2017 OK. I don't understand tunneling well enough to fully understand how that'll work, but I see the difference, I think.-- notexactly, Jun 15 2017 Semiconductor fabrication has been traditionally planar rather than 3D. There have only been a few recent attempts to start making memory devices in a 3D fashion. If you can actually tell Intel and Micron technologies how to accomplish this feat of magic you are proposing, then you will make stupid amounts of money. They have already spent some serious high stakes poker style money to get 3D xpoint to market.-- MrExergy, Jun 17 2017 A close fitting tunnel is a FIFO. It wouldn't surprise me if Quantum Mechanics has weirded this out as well.
My questioning line is this, does the voltage push one electron strait to the higher step or push the electron in the lower step to the higher step first and move to the lower step?-- wjt, Jun 17 2017 I don't think each cell is meant to be a shift register in this idea. My understanding of it is that each cell can only hold one electron, but that electron can be on any of eight (say) steps in the cell, to represent a number.-- notexactly, Jun 18 2017 With all the talk of flash and LEDs , I imagined a tunnel from the other side of the this material wall which, on getting through, the electron cascades down the steps flinging off photons as it falls. A sort of cascade LED. Now if the steps were arranged spacially as a Freznal parabola.... Sorry, just dreaming.-- wjt, Jun 24 2017 random, halfbakery