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- Patent Title: Storage device and driving method thereof for gain cell including cancel circuit
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Application No.: US15784495Application Date: 2017-10-16
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Publication No.: US10573374B2Publication Date: 2020-02-25
- Inventor: Takahiko Ishizu , Shuhei Nagatsuka
- Applicant: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
- Applicant Address: JP Kanagawa-ken
- Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Kanagawa-ken
- Agency: Robinson Intellectual Property Law Office
- Agent Eric J. Robinson
- Priority: JP2016-206300 20161020
- Main IPC: G11C11/40
- IPC: G11C11/40 ; G11C11/4094 ; G11C11/4099 ; G11C7/10 ; G11C11/405 ; H01L27/108 ; G11C16/04 ; G11C16/08 ; G11C16/28

Abstract:
A data reading error is reduced. A memory cell array in a storage device includes a write word line, a read word line, a write bit line, a read bit line, a source line, and a gain cell. For example, a read transistor in the gain cell can include a metal oxide in a channel formation region. A cancel circuit is electrically connected to the read bit line. The cancel circuit has a function of supplying, to the read bit line, current for canceling leakage current supplied to the read bit line from the gain cell in a non-selected state. In read operation, a potential change of the read bit line due to leakage current is compensated for by the current from the cancel circuit, so that a data reading error is reduced.
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