Patent ID: 9646710
Date: 2017-05-09
CPC Classifications: G11C,H01L,Y10T

Claim:
1. A semiconductor device comprising: a first channel oriented along a first direction, the first channel having a length along the first direction longer than a width along a perpendicular second direction; a first gate line extending along the first channel in the first direction, the first gate line disposed over and overlapping with the first channel, wherein the first channel is configured to be set into a conductive state by activating the first gate line, wherein the first gate line has a length extending along the first channel in the first direction and a width along the perpendicular second direction so that the width of the first gate line is perpendicular to the length of the first gate line, and wherein the length of the first gate line is longer than the width of the first gate line, wherein the first gate line having the length along the first direction and the width along the second direction is directly above the first channel and overlaps with the first channel; and three first terminals separate from each other and electrically connected to the first channel at a first location, a second location, and a third location, wherein the first, the second, and the third locations are different locations of a continuous region of the first channel and are arranged along a line in the first direction, wherein the three first terminals are electrically coupled together by activating the first gate line, wherein the three first terminals include at least one source terminal and at least one drain terminal and wherein the semiconductor device forms a single transistor.