Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Method for driving semiconductor device
- Patent Title (中): 半导体装置的驱动方法
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Application No.: US13961048Application Date: 2013-08-07
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Publication No.: US08878574B2Publication Date: 2014-11-04
- Inventor: Shunpei Yamazaki , Jun Koyama
- 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: JP2012-177881 20120810
- Main IPC: H03K3/00
- IPC: H03K3/00 ; H03K3/012 ; H03K19/00 ; G09G3/00

Abstract:
To provide a driving method of a semiconductor device for reducing power consumption. In a method for driving a semiconductor device of one embodiment of the present invention, in a first period, a switch configured to control an electrical connection between a first wiring and a second wiring together with an n-channel transistor and a p-channel transistor is in an off state during a period in which the states of the n-channel transistor and the p-channel transistor gates of which are electrically connected to each other are switched between an on state and an off state. In a second period, the switch is set to be in an off state. The switch has a channel formation region in a semiconductor, band gap of which is higher than silicon and intrinsic carrier density of which is lower than silicon.
Public/Granted literature
- US20140043068A1 METHOD FOR DRIVING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE Public/Granted day:2014-02-13
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