Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Semiconductor device with memory cells
- Patent Title (中): 具有存储单元的半导体器件
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Application No.: US13182488Application Date: 2011-07-14
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Publication No.: US08502292B2Publication Date: 2013-08-06
- Inventor: Kiyoshi Kato , Takanori Matsuzaki , Shuhei Nagatsuka , Hiroki Inoue
- Applicant: Kiyoshi Kato , Takanori Matsuzaki , Shuhei Nagatsuka , Hiroki Inoue
- 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: Fish & Richardson P.C.
- Priority: JP2010-162134 20100716
- Main IPC: H01L27/108
- IPC: H01L27/108 ; H01L29/94

Abstract:
A semiconductor device with a novel structure is provided, which can hold stored data even when no power is supplied and which has no limitations on the number of writing operations. A semiconductor device is formed using a material which enables off-state current of a transistor to be reduced significantly; e.g., an oxide semiconductor material which is a wide-gap semiconductor. With use of a semiconductor material which enables off-state current of a transistor to be reduced significantly, the semiconductor device can hold data for a long period. In a semiconductor device with a memory cell array, parasitic capacitances generated in the nodes of the first to the m-th memory cells connected in series are substantially equal, whereby the semiconductor device can operate stably.
Public/Granted literature
- US20120012845A1 SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE Public/Granted day:2012-01-19
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