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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 05, 2002
Filed:
Dec. 22, 2000
Noboru Mikami, Hyogo, JP;
Takeharu Kuroiwa, Hyogo, JP;
Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
The inventive nonvolatile semiconductor memory device, rewriting stored information with the quantity of charges of a dielectric material, comprises a ferroelectric film having a hysteresis characteristic in a dependency of an electric field density and an-electric field and a nonlinear element electrically connected with the ferroelectric film. In this nonlinear element, the quantity of increase of a positive electric flux density with respect to an electric field is small in a low field region and large in a high field region in a dependency of the electric flux density and the electric field. Thus, it is possible to obtain a nonvolatile semiconductor memory device capable of suppressing dispersion in coercive filed and preventing reduction of voltage resistance without increasing the chip area.