US Patent Issued to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing on Jan. 13 for "Semiconductor device and logic device" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,527,081, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Semiconductor device and logic device" was invented by Hung-Li Chiang (Taipei, Taiwan), Jer-Fu Wang (Taipei, Taiwan) and Iuliana Radu (Hsinchu County, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device and a logic device formed of the semiconductor device are provided. The semiconductor device includes a first field effect transistor (FET), disposed on a semiconductor substrate, and including vertically separated first channel structures formed as thin sheets each having opposite major planar surfaces facing toward and aw...