AbSlract-The monolithic combination of sputtered zinc oxide on an
oxidized silicon substrate has been utilized as an acoustic surface wave
nonlinear convolver. It has been found that the mixing efficiency of
an area on the device can be weighted either by applied local bias or
illumination. It has, furthermore, been found that gate bias or illumination
can be used to store weighting information in the form of
trapped charge in the zinc oxide. In multiline convolvell one can use
the nonlinear relation between the amount of charge trapped and
applied writing bias to form matrix addressable memory cell arrays.
AIIo, one can use the sensitivity of the interaction efficiency on applied
bias to select a desired output be, and thus, achieve a ruler scanning
capability without switc:hing any RF.