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Memory device

US10685707B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateApr 9, 2019
Grant dateJun 16, 2020
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Expiry dateApr 9, 2039

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG11C2213/71
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A memory device includes a plurality of memory cells connected to a plurality of word lines and a plurality of bit lines, each of the plurality of memory cells including a switching element and an information storage element connected to the switching element and containing a phase-change material, a decoder unit configured to determine a selected word line and a selected bit line connected to a selected memory cell to read data, among the plurality of memory cells, and a current compensation circuit configured to remove a leakage current from the selected word line, the leakage current corresponding to a sun of off-currents flowing in unselected bit lines, excluding the selected bit line, among the plurality of bit lines, from the selected word line.

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