Electric dynamically operated storage element

Claim 1

An electric dynamically operated storage circuit consisting of a semiconductor body; two field effect transistors formed in the semiconductor body, and each having the characteristic of a variable resistance; each of said transistors having a plurality of semiconductor zones forming two main electrodes and a control electrode; means connecting one main electrode of each said transistors to said control electrode of the other of said transistors and connecting the other main electrodes of both of said transistors together to a common source; two energy stores each including a charging circuit and a discharging circuit, each of said charging circuits including a diode connected in series with the one main electrode of a respective transitor, said transistors being connected in such a manner that their variable resistance is used by said discharge circuits; each of said diodes being formed by a barrier layer between that semiconductor zone of its respective transitor forming the first main electrode of that transistor and the semiconductor body; a clock pulse generator connected to the region of said diodes formed by said semiconductor body so as to be connected to both of said energy stores to produce in said energy stores periodically repeating phase timing pulses, the duration of which are so selected that the stored information is effected with each timing pulse.