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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 16, 2016
Filed:
Aug. 30, 2013
Micron Technology, Inc., Boise, ID (US);
Srinivasa R. Banna, San Jose, CA (US);
Michael A. Van Bushkirk, Saratoga, CA (US);
Timothy Thurgate, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC., Boise, ID (US);
Abstract
Techniques for providing a semiconductor memory device are disclosed. In one particular embodiment, the techniques may be realized as a semiconductor memory device including a plurality of memory cells arranged in an array of rows and columns, each memory cell. Each of the memory cell may include a first region coupled to a source line, a second region coupled to a bit line, and a body region capacitively coupled to at least one word line via a gate region and disposed between the first region and the second region, wherein the body region may include a plurality of floating body regions and a plurality of floating gate regions capacitively coupled to the at least one word line.