Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Two transistor memory cell using stacked thin-film transistors
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Application No.: US18161915Application Date: 2023-01-31
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Publication No.: US12238913B2Publication Date: 2025-02-25
- Inventor: Abhishek A. Sharma , Juan G. Alzate-Vinasco , Fatih Hamzaoglu , Bernhard Sell , Pei-hua Wang , Van H. Le , Jack T. Kavalieros , Tahir Ghani , Umut Arslan , Travis W. Lajoie , Chieh-jen Ku
- Applicant: Intel Corporation
- Applicant Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Assignee: Intel Corporation
- Current Assignee: Intel Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Agency: Akokna IP PC
- Main IPC: H10B10/00
- IPC: H10B10/00 ; G11C11/403 ; H10B12/00

Abstract:
Described herein are two transistor (2T) memory cells that use TFTs as access and gain transistors. When one or both transistors of a 2T memory cell are implemented as TFTs, these transistors may be provided in different layers above a substrate, enabling a stacked architecture. An example 2T memory cell includes an access TFT provided in a first layer over a substrate, and a gain TFT provided in a second layer over the substrate, the first layer being between the substrate and the second layer (i.e., the gain TFT is stacked in a layer above the access TFT). Stacked TFT based 2T memory cells allow increasing density of memory cells in a memory array having a given footprint area, or, conversely, reducing the footprint area of the memory array with a given memory cell density.
Public/Granted literature
- US20230171936A1 TWO TRANSISTOR MEMORY CELL USING STACKED THIN-FILM TRANSISTORS Public/Granted day:2023-06-01
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