An electronic circuit is formed by closely spacing metallic gate and drain
interconnects to a flexible portion of a source interconnect. A gate
voltage results in electrostatic attraction and lateral mechanical
movement of the flexible source interconnect portion and causes an
electrical short between source and drain. VanderWaals attraction between
contacting source and drain can be used to provide volatile switching
(springy thicker source portion) and non-volatile switching (limp thinner
source portion). In accordance with the invention, an easily fabricated,
high speed, low power, radiation hard, temperature independent,
integrated reconfigurable electronic circuit with embedded logic and
non-volatile memory can be realized. The switch uses patterned
interconnect material for its structure and can be incorporated to a 3D
layered structure consisting of three dimensional interconnect in which
different layers and portions of the circuits are linked through volatile
and non-volatile switches.