US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Sept. 9 for "Semiconductor structure having stacked power rails" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,414,336, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Semiconductor structure having stacked power rails" was invented by Huimei Zhou (Albany, N.Y.), Ruilong Xie (Niskayuna, N.Y.), Julien Frougier (Albany, N.Y.) and Miaomiao Wang (Albany, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Vertically stacked, buried power rails are electrically connected to wrap-around contacts or other electrically conductive liners on transistor source/drain regions. The buried power rails are electrically isolated from each other by an electrical insulator. Wrap-around contacts can be electrically connected to different o...