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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 21, 2026
Filed:
Oct. 28, 2022
Applicant:
SK Hynix Inc., Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Inventors:
Assignee:
SK hynix Inc., Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/06 (2006.01); G11C 5/14 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0619 (2013.01); G06F 3/0629 (2013.01); G06F 3/0673 (2013.01); G11C 5/148 (2013.01);
Abstract
A memory device includes a memory cell array including a plurality of memory cells; a peripheral circuit configured to perform a recovery operation of applying a recovery voltage to the memory cells for increasing a residual polarization of the memory cells and configured to perform a normal operation of applying a driving voltage to the memory cells for reading data from the memory cells or writing data into the memory cells; and a control logic configured to control, when powered up, the peripheral circuit to perform the recovery operation and then perform the normal operation.