Abstract:
A semiconductor memory device is provided including a plurality of diffusion region pairs comprising first and second diffusion regions, wherein each of the diffusion regions comprise source and drain regions of a bit line transistor pair comprising a first bit line transistor and a second bit line transistor and a plurality of bit line transistor gate pairs in contact with the respective diffusion region pairs, wherein the first bit line transistor gate of the bit line transistor gate pairs comprises a gate portion of a first bit line transistor of the first diffusion region and the first bit lite transistor of the second diffusion region, wherein a second bit line transistor gate of the bit line transistor gate pairs comprises a gate portion of the second bit line transistor of the first diffusion region and the second bit line transistor of the second diffusion layer.