Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Logic circuit and semiconductor device
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Application No.: US16555275Application Date: 2019-08-29
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Publication No.: US10593810B2Publication Date: 2020-03-17
- Inventor: Shunpei Yamazaki , Jun Koyama , Masashi Tsubuku , Kosei Noda
- 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: JP2009-238914 20091016
- Main IPC: H01L21/02
- IPC: H01L21/02 ; H01L29/786 ; H01L27/02 ; H01L27/12 ; H01L21/66

Abstract:
A logic circuit includes a thin film transistor having a channel formation region formed using an oxide semiconductor, and a capacitor having terminals one of which is brought into a floating state by turning off the thin film transistor. The oxide semiconductor has a hydrogen concentration of 5×1019 (atoms/cm3) or less and thus substantially serves as an insulator in a state where an electric field is not generated. Therefore, off-state current of a thin film transistor can be reduced, leadind to suppressing the leakage of electric charge stored in a capacitor, through the thin film transistor. Accordingly, a malfunction of the logic circuit can be prevented. Further, the excessive amount of current which flows in the logic circuit can be reduced through the reduction of off-state current of the thin film transistor, resulting in low power consumption of the logic circuit.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190386141A1 LOGIC CIRCUIT AND SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE Public/Granted day:2019-12-19
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