PURPOSE: To eliminate reduction in residual polarization value even upon repeated reading and to effectively record and read information by forming a ferroelectric unit in a laminate in which a plurality of ferrodielectric films having different electric field resistances are laminated.
CONSTITUTION: In a ferroelectric memory having a stripelike lower electrode 12, a stripelike upper electrode 15 so disposed as to be perpendicular to the electrode 12, a ferrodielectric layer 14 disposed between the electrodes 12 and 15 for varying a polarized state by an electric field applied between the electrodes 12 and 15, the ferrodielectric unit 14 is formed in a laminate in which a plurality of ferroelectric films 14a, 14b having different electric field resistances are laminated. For example, a stripelike Al lower electrode 12 is formed on a glass board 11, an insulator 13 is filled between the electrodes 12, and the unit 14 made of a high electric field resistance ferrodielectric film 14a and a low electric field resistance ferrodielectric film 14b is formed on the electrode 12 and the insulator. The stripelike Al upper electrode 15 is formed on the unit 14.
ADACHI HIDEO
WATANABE HITOSHI
YUSA ATSUSHI
FUNAZAKI JUN
OTA YOSHINORI
MIZUSAKI TAKASHI