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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 20, 2004
Filed:
Jul. 16, 2002
Applicant:
Inventor:
Tetsuya Uemura, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
NEC Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 1/100 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 1/100 ;
Abstract
A memory cell is formed by an FET, a gate of which is connected to the word line and a drain of which is connected to the bit line; a capacitor, one end of which is connected to a source of the FET and the other end of which is connected to a first power supply; a first negative differential resistance element provided between the word line and the source of the FET; and a second negative differential resistance element provided between the source of the FET and a second power supply.