US Patent Issued to Intel on Oct. 21 for "Transistor with front-side and back-side contacts and routing" (Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,453,123, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Transistor with front-side and back-side contacts and routing" was invented by Abhishek A. Sharma (Hillsboro, Ore.), Wilfred Gomes (Portland, Ore.) and Mauro J. Kobrinsky (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are transistors with front-side and back-side routing, and IC devices including such transistors. The transistor includes a channel material having a longitudinal structure and formed in a dielectric material. A source region encloses a first portion of the channel material, a gate electrode encloses a second portion of the chan...