Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Semiconductor device and driving method thereof
- Patent Title (中): 半导体装置及其驱动方法
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Application No.: US14328818Application Date: 2014-07-11
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Publication No.: US09136280B2Publication Date: 2015-09-15
- Inventor: Kazuma Furutani , Yoshinori Ieda , Yuto Yakubo , Kiyoshi Kato , Shunpei Yamazaki
- Applicant: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
- Applicant Address: JP Atsugi-shi, Kanagawa-ken
- Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Atsugi-shi, Kanagawa-ken
- Agency: Fish & Richardson P.C.
- Priority: JP2010-007495 20100115
- Main IPC: H01L27/12
- IPC: H01L27/12 ; G11C16/04 ; G11C11/403 ; H01L27/115

Abstract:
A semiconductor device has a non-volatile memory cell including a write transistor which includes an oxide semiconductor and has small leakage current in an off state between a source and a drain, a read transistor including a semiconductor material different from that of the write transistor, and a capacitor. Data is written or rewritten to the memory cell by turning on the write transistor and applying a potential to a node where one of a source electrode and drain electrode of the write transistor, one electrode of the capacitor, and a gate electrode of the read transistor are electrically connected to one another, and then turning off the write transistor so that the predetermined amount of charge is held in the node.
Public/Granted literature
- US20140319518A1 SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND DRIVING METHOD THEREOF Public/Granted day:2014-10-30
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