Patents Examined by Tong-Ho Kim
  • Patent number: 12389675
    Abstract: A semiconductor device structure is provided. The structure includes a first gate electrode layer having at least three surfaces surrounded by a first intermixed layer, wherein the first intermixed layer comprises a first material and a second material. The structure also includes a second gate electrode layer disposed below and in contact with the first gate electrode layer, the second gate electrode layer having at least three surfaces surrounded by a second intermixed layer, wherein the second intermixed layer comprises the first material and a fifth material, wherein the first gate electrode layer and the second gate electrode layer are disposed between two adjacent dielectric spacers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2024
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2025
    Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Mao-Lin Huang, Jia-Ni Yu, Lung-Kun Chu, Chung-Wei Hsu, Chih-Hao Wang, Kuo-Cheng Chiang, Kuan-Lun Cheng
  • Patent number: 12382718
    Abstract: A semiconductor device may include an active pattern on a substrate, a lower channel pattern on the active pattern and including first and second lower semiconductor patterns, an upper channel pattern on the lower channel pattern and including first and second upper semiconductor patterns, a pair of lower source/drain patterns on opposite sides of the lower channel pattern and a pair of upper source/drain patterns on opposite sides of the upper channel pattern, and a gate electrode surrounding the lower and upper channel patterns. The gate electrode may include a first upper portion between the first and second upper semiconductor patterns, and a first lower portion between the first and second lower semiconductor patterns. Each semiconductor pattern may include a first recess part having a first recess region on a top surface thereof, and a first protrusion part protruding from a bottom surface of the first recess part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2025
    Assignees: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., KOREA UNIVERSITY Research and Business Foundation
    Inventors: Hyun-Yong Yu, Seung Geun Jung
  • Patent number: 12382691
    Abstract: A semiconductor structure includes a substrate and a semiconductor channel layer over the substrate. The semiconductor structure includes a high-k gate dielectric layer over the semiconductor channel layer, a work function metal layer over the high-k gate dielectric layer, and a bulk metal layer over the work function metal layer. The work function metal layer includes a first portion and a second portion over the first portion. Both the first portion and the second portion are conductive. Materials included in the second portion are also included in the first portion. The first portion is doped with silicon at a first dopant concentration, and the second portion is not doped with silicon or is doped with silicon at a second dopant concentration lower than the first dopant concentration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2024
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2025
    Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Yen-Tien Tung, Szu-Wei Huang, Zhi-Ren Xiao, Yin-Chuan Chuang, Yung-Chien Huang, Kuan-Ting Liu, Tzer-Min Shen, Chung-Wei Wu, Zhiqiang Wu
  • Patent number: 12382685
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes an active region, a plurality of channel layers disposed to be spaced apart from each other in a vertical direction on the active region, a gate structure extending in a second direction to intersect the active region and the plurality of channel layers and surrounding the plurality of channel layers, a source/drain region disposed on the active region on at least one side of the gate structure and contacting the plurality of channel layers, and a contact plug connected to the source/drain region. The source/drain region includes a first epitaxial layer disposed on the active region and extending to contact the plurality of channel layers, second epitaxial layers disposed on the first epitaxial layer, each including impurities in a first concentration, and doping layers stacked alternately with the second epitaxial layers, each including the impurities in a second concentration higher than the first concentration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2025
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Gyeom Kim, Jinbum Kim, Sangmoon Lee, Dahye Kim, Kyungbin Chun
  • Patent number: 12376340
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a fin protruding above a substrate; source/drain regions over the fin; nanosheets between the source/drain regions; and a gate structure over the fin and between the source/drain regions. The gate structure includes: a gate dielectric material around each of the nanosheets; a first liner material around the gate dielectric material; a work function material around the first liner material; a second liner material around the work function material; and a gate electrode material around at least portions of the second liner material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hsin-Yi Lee, Weng Chang, Chi On Chui
  • Patent number: 12374624
    Abstract: In an embodiment, a device includes: a first fin; a gate structure over the first fin; a first source/drain region adjacent the gate structure; an etch stop layer over the first source/drain region; a conductive line over the etch stop layer, the conductive line isolated from the first source/drain region by the etch stop layer, a top surface of the conductive line being coplanar with a top surface of the gate structure; and a power rail contact extending through the first fin, the power rail contact connected to the first source/drain region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Pei-Yu Wang, Yu-Xuan Huang
  • Patent number: 12376356
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a semiconductor device having a backside source/drain contact, and method for forming the device. The semiconductor device includes a source/drain feature having a top surface and a bottom surface, a first silicide layer formed in contact with the top surface of the source/drain feature, a first conductive feature formed on the first silicide layer, and a second conductive feature having a body portion and a first sidewall portion extending from the body portion, wherein the body portion is below the bottom surface of the source/drain feature, and the first sidewall portion is in contact with the first conductive feature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Chun-Yuan Chen, Pei-Yu Wang, Huan-Chieh Su, Chih-Hao Wang
  • Patent number: 12362278
    Abstract: A semiconductor structure includes a first field-effect transistor having a first back side source/drain contact, a second back side source/drain contact, and a first power line and a first signal line each connected to the first back side source/drain contact and the second back side source/drain contact, respectively. The semiconductor structure further includes a second field-effect transistor vertically stacked above the first field-effect transistor. The second field-effect transistor having a first front side source/drain contact, a second front side source/drain contact, and a first power line and a first signal line each connected to the first front side source/drain contact and the second front side source/drain contact, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2025
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Tao Li, Ruilong Xie, David Wolpert, Albert M. Chu
  • Patent number: 12363946
    Abstract: A device includes a device layer comprising a first transistor and a second transistor; a first interconnect structure on a front-side of the device layer; and a second interconnect structure on a backside of the device layer. The second interconnect structure comprising a first dielectric layer on the backside of the device layer, wherein a semiconductor material is disposed between the first dielectric layer and a first source/drain region of the first transistor; a contact extending through the first dielectric layer to a second source/drain region of the second transistor; and a first conductive line electrically connected to the second source/drain region of the second transistor through the contact.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2025
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Li-Zhen Yu, Huan-Chieh Su, Lin-Yu Huang, Cheng-Chi Chuang, Chih-Hao Wang
  • Patent number: 12356769
    Abstract: A display device includes a substrate, a partition wall on the substrate, a light-emitting element in an emission area partitioned by the partition wall on the substrate, and extending in a thickness direction of the substrate, a wavelength conversion layer over the light-emitting element in the emission area, and including a base resin, and a scatterer dispersed in the base resin and that converts a wavelength of light emitted from the light-emitting element, a light-blocking member on the partition wall, and at least one optical pattern on the wavelength conversion layer in the emission area, and having an upwardly protruding shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2025
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hae Yun Choi, Jin Taek Park, Ki Seong Seo, Dae Ho Song, So Young Yeo, So Yeon Yoon, Byeong Hwa Choi
  • Patent number: 12356705
    Abstract: A method of forming an electrical contact in a semiconductor structure includes performing a cavity shaping process on a semiconductor structures having an n-type metal oxide semiconductor (n-MOS) region and/or a p-type MOS (p-MOS) region, the cavity shaping process comprising forming an n-MOS cavity in an exposed surface of the n-MOS region and/or a p-MOS cavity in an exposed surface of the p-MOS region, wherein the cavity shaping process is configured to increase the surface area of the exposed surface of the n-MOS region or the p-MOS region. In some embodiments, the method includes performing a first selective deposition process to form a p-MOS cavity contact, selectively in the p-MOS cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2025
    Assignee: APPLIED MATERIALS, INC.
    Inventors: Nicolas Louis Breil, Lisa McGill, Manoj Vellaikal, Bocheng Cao, Pei Liu, Avgerinos V. Gelatos
  • Patent number: 12349384
    Abstract: A semiconductor structure includes a substrate, an oxide layer disposed over the substrate, a stack of semiconductor layers disposed over the oxide layer, and an epitaxial source/drain (S/D) feature disposed adjacent to the stack of semiconductor layers. A portion of the epitaxial S/D feature is horizontally surrounded by the oxide layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2025
    Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTUIRNG CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xusheng Wu, Chang-Miao Liu, Huiling Shang
  • Patent number: 12342614
    Abstract: Techniques are provided herein to form semiconductor devices having a stacked transistor configuration. An n-channel device and a p-channel device may both be gate-all-around (GAA) transistors each having any number of nanoribbons extending in the same direction where one device is located vertically above the other device. According to some embodiments, the n-channel device and the p-channel device conductively share the same gate, and a width of the gate structure around one device is greater than the width of the gate structure around the other device. According to some other embodiments, the n-channel device and the p-channel device each have a separate gate structure that is isolated from the other using a dielectric layer between them. A gate contact is adjacent to the upper device and contacts the gate structure of the other lower device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2025
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Cheng-Ying Huang, Patrick Morrow, Arunshankar Venkataraman, Sean T. Ma, Willy Rachmady, Nicole K. Thomas, Marko Radosavljevic, Jack T. Kavalieros
  • Patent number: 12342616
    Abstract: A semiconductor device structure, along with methods of forming such, are described. The structure includes a stack of semiconductor layers spaced apart from and aligned with each other, a first source/drain epitaxial feature in contact with a first one or more semiconductor layers of the stack of semiconductor layers, and a second source/drain epitaxial feature disposed over the first source/drain epitaxial feature. The second source/drain epitaxial feature is in contact with a second one or more semiconductor layers of the stack of semiconductor layers. The structure further includes a first dielectric material disposed between the first source/drain epitaxial feature and the second source/drain epitaxial feature and a first liner disposed between the first source/drain epitaxial feature and the second source/drain epitaxial feature. The first liner is in contact with the first source/drain epitaxial feature and the first dielectric material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2024
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2025
    Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Shih-Cheng Chen, Zhi-Chang Lin, Jung-Hung Chang, Lo Heng Chang, Chih-Hao Wang, Chien Ning Yao, Kuo-Cheng Chiang
  • Patent number: 12342601
    Abstract: A semiconductor device and a method of fabricating a semiconductor device, the device including a fin-type pattern extending in a first direction; a gate electrode extending in a second direction over the fin-type pattern, the second direction being different from the first direction; spacers on sidewalls of the gate electrode; a capping structure on the gate electrode and the spacers, the capping structure including a first capping pattern and a second capping pattern, the second capping pattern being on the first capping pattern; and an interlayer insulating film surrounding sidewalls of each of the spacers and sidewalls of the capping structure, the interlayer insulating film being in contact with the first capping pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2025
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Nam Gyu Cho, Rak Hwan Kim, Hyeok-Jun Son, Do Sun Lee, Won Keun Chung
  • Patent number: 12336268
    Abstract: Gallium nitride (GaN) integrated circuit technology is described. In an example, an integrated circuit structure includes a substrate including silicon, the substrate having a top surface. A first trench is in the substrate, the first trench having a first width. A second trench is in the substrate, the second trench having a second width less than the first width. A first island is in the first trench, the first island including gallium and nitrogen and having first corner facets below the top surface of the substrate. A second island is in the second trench, the second island including gallium and nitrogen and having second corner facets below the top surface of the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2025
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Nicole K. Thomas, Samuel Bader, Marko Radosavljevic, Han Wui Then, Pratik Koirala, Nityan Nair
  • Patent number: 12327786
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a substrate having a first side and a second side; an active region arranged on the first side, and extending along a first lateral direction; a first gate structure arranged on the first side, extending along a second lateral direction perpendicular to the first lateral direction, disposed over the active region, and wrapping a first portion of the active region; a first interconnecting structure arranged on the first side, electrically coupled to the first gate structure, and disposed over the first gate structure; and a second interconnecting structure arranged on the second side, and electrically coupled to one or more portions of the active region. The active region, the first gate structure, the first interconnecting structure, and the second interconnecting structure are collectively configured as a decoupling capacitor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2024
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2025
    Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Kam-Tou Sio, Jiann-Tyng Tzeng
  • Patent number: 12324148
    Abstract: The embodiments of the present application provide a semiconductor structure manufacturing method for forming a semiconductor structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2025
    Assignee: CHANGXIN MEMORY TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventor: Chih-Cheng Liu
  • Patent number: 12324237
    Abstract: A stacked field effect transistor (stacked-FET) device includes a first layer comprising at least one first layer transistor structure comprising a plurality of first layer terminals, a diffusion break dielectric fill region adjacent to one of the first layer terminals, a second layer overlying and adjacent to the first layer and comprising at least one second layer transistor structure comprising a plurality of second layer terminals, and a contact wiring between the first layer and the second layer passing through the diffusion break dielectric fill region of the first layer and connecting with one of the second layer terminals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2025
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Ruilong Xie, Alexander Reznicek, Daniel Schmidt, Tsung-Sheng Kang
  • Patent number: 12300732
    Abstract: A method for forming a gate all around transistor includes forming a plurality of semiconductor nanosheets. The method includes forming a cladding inner spacer between a source region of the transistor and a gate region of the transistor. The method includes forming sheet inner spacers between the semiconductor nanosheets in a separate deposition process from the cladding inner spacer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2024
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2025
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhi-Chang Lin, Kuan-Ting Pan, Shih-Cheng Chen, Jung-Hung Chang, Lo-Heng Chang, Chien-Ning Yao, Kuo-Cheng Chiang