ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,527,013, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

"Capacitor, semiconductor device including the same, and method of fabricating capacitor" was invented by Jeonggyu Song (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Younsoo Kim (Yongin-si, South Korea) and Jaeho Lee (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A capacitor includes: a bottom electrode; a top electrode over the bottom electrode; a dielectric film between the bottom electrode and the top electrode; and a doped Al2O3 film between the top electrode and the dielectric film, wherein the doped Al2O3 film includes a first dopant, and an oxid...