Patent 10020346 was granted and assigned to Western Digital on July, 2018 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
To provide enhanced data storage devices and systems, various systems, architectures, apparatuses, and methods, are provided herein. In a first example, a resistive memory device is provided. The resistive memory device comprises a substrate, and an active region having resistance properties that can be modified to store one or more data bits, the active region comprising region of the substrate with a chemically altered reduction level to establish a resistive memory property in the substrate. The resistive memory device comprises terminals formed into the substrate and configured to couple the active region to associated electrical contacts.