Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Semiconductor memory device
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Application No.: US14874530Application Date: 2015-10-05
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Publication No.: US09786670B2Publication Date: 2017-10-10
- Inventor: Toshihiko Saito
- 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: JP2010-261470 20101124
- Main IPC: G11C11/24
- IPC: G11C11/24 ; H01L27/108 ; G11C11/404 ; H01L21/84 ; H01L27/12 ; H01L49/02 ; G11C11/401 ; G11C11/4096 ; H01L29/786

Abstract:
To increase a storage capacity of a memory module per unit area, and to provide a memory module with low power consumption, a transistor formed using an oxide semiconductor film, a silicon carbide film, a gallium nitride film, or the like, which is highly purified and has a wide band gap of 2.5 eV or higher is used for a DRAM, so that a retention period of potentials in a capacitor can be extended. Further, a memory cell has n capacitors with different capacitances and the n capacitors are each connected to a corresponding one of n data lines, so that a variety of the storage capacitances can be obtained and multilevel data can be stored. The capacitors may be stacked for reducing the area of the memory cell.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160027782A1 SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE Public/Granted day:2016-01-28
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