ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,550,649, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
"Wet etching process for manufacturing semiconductor structure" was invented by Yu-Wei Lu (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Kenichi Sano (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for manufacturing a semiconductor structure includes forming a plurality of semiconductor stack portions spaced apart from each other by a plurality of recesses, each of which includes two sacrificial layer portions and a channel layer portion disposed therebetween, in which the channel layer portion has a plurality of crystal planes and is formed wi...