US Patent Issued to Semiconductor Energy Laboratory on Jan. 27 for "Semiconductor device comprising transitor, capacitor and plug" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,538,523, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co. Ltd. (Atsugi, Japan).

"Semiconductor device comprising transitor, capacitor and plug" was invented by Shunpei Yamazaki (Setagaya, Japan), Yoshinori Ando (Atsugi, Japan), Ryota Hodo (Atsugi, Japan) and Takashi Hirose (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device with little characteristic variation is provided. A transistor includes an oxide semiconductor; a first conductor and a second conductor over the oxide semiconductor; a first insulator over the first conductor; a second insulator over the second conductor; a third insulator tha...