US Patent Issued to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING on Feb. 18 for "Semiconductor structure with thin film transistor" (Belgian, Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,230,716, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Semiconductor structure with thin film transistor" was invented by Marcus Johannes Henricus Van Dal (Linden, Belgium), Gerben Doornbos (Kessel-Lo, Belgium), Georgios Vellianitis (Heverlee, Belgium) and Mauricio Manfrini (Zhubei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Semiconductor structures and methods for manufacturing the same are provided. The semiconductor structure includes an interconnect structure and an electrode layer formed over the interconnect structure. The semiconductor structure also includes a gate dielectric la...