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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 30, 1994
Filed:
May. 25, 1993
Ciaran J Brennan, Arlington, MA (US);
The Charles Stark Draper Laboratories, Inc., Cambridge, MA (US);
Abstract
A ferroelectric space charge capacitor memory device includes a ferroelectric dielectric having a plurality of polarization states; a first electrode attached to the dielectric and establishing a first electric contact potential between the first electrode and the dielectric and a second electrode spaced from the first electrode and attached to the dielectric and establishing a second electric contact potential between the second electrode and the dielectric for generating a differential internal bias voltage on the dielectric which defines a number of capacitive levels, one representative of each of a corresponding number of polarization states and produces an electrical field which is less than the coercive electric field of the dielectric.