ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,538,564, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to National Tsing Hua University (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Heterogeneous integration capacitor and MoM capacitor" was invented by Ho-Chun Wu (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Yin-Cheng Chang (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Shuo-Hung Hsu (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heterogeneous integration capacitor and a metal-oxide-metal (MoM) capacitor are provided. The heterogeneous integration capacitor has a first electrode and a second electrode, and includes a substrate, a semiconductor capacitor, the MoM capacitor, and a metal-insulator-metal (MiM) capacitor. These capacitors are sequentially formed on the substra...