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Title:
SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY AND ITS DRIVING METHOD
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JP3805659
Kind Code:
B2
Abstract:

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To read data stored in a ferroelectric capacitor even if a potential difference applied to the ferroelectric capacitor is lost by injection of electrons or positive holes.
SOLUTION: A field effect type transistor is constituted of a source region 101, a drain region 102, a channel region 103, a gate insulation film 104, and a floating gate electrode 105, a ferroelectric capacitor 113 is provided on the field effect type transistor through a insulation film. The ferroelectric capacitor 113 comprises a ferroelectric film 110, an upper side first electrode 111 and a lower side second electrode 112. For example, a direction of polarization of the ferroelectric film 110 is downward look and a first state in which the ferroelectric film 110 has an almost saturated polarization value is written as data '1', while a direction of polarization of the ferroelectric film 110 is downward look and a second state in which the ferroelectric film 110 has an almost zero polarization value is written as data '0'.


Inventors:
Yasuhiro Shimada
Takehisa Kato
Takayoshi Yamada
Application Number:
JP2001325817A
Publication Date:
August 02, 2006
Filing Date:
October 24, 2001
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Assignee:
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd
International Classes:
G11C11/22; H01L21/8246; H01L21/8247; H01L27/105; H01L29/788; H01L29/792; (IPC1-7): G11C11/22; H01L21/8247; H01L27/105; H01L29/788; H01L29/792
Domestic Patent References:
JP8124378A
JP11045584A
JP5041080A
JP2000137988A
JP2000251478A
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Hiroshi Maeda
Hiroshi Takeuchi
Takahisa Shimada
Yuji Takeuchi
Katsumi Imae
Atsushi Fujita
Kazunari Ninomiya
Tomoo Harada
Iseki Katsumori
Seki Kei
Yasuya Sugiura