ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,550,345, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
"Semiconductor structure" was invented by Chih-Fang Huang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Jia-Wei Hu (Taipei, Taiwan) and Fu-Jen Hsu (Zhubei, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor structure includes a Schottky diode structure, which includes: a first trench extending through a first N-type semiconductor layer and being disposed in the first N-type semiconductor layer; a first insulating layer disposed in the first trench; two polysilicon layers or metal silicide layers disposed in the first trench, wherein an upper one and a lower one of the p...