US Patent Issued to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing on July 1 for "Transistor, semiconductor device including the same, and manufacturing method thereof" (Taiwanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,349,603, issued on July 1, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Transistor, semiconductor device including the same, and manufacturing method thereof" was invented by Mauricio Manfrini (Hsinchu County, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A back-end-of-line transistor includes a channel strip, a source contact, a drain contact, a high-k dielectric strip, a gate pattern, and self-assembled monolayers. The channel strip includes a semiconductor oxide material. The source contact contacts a first end of the channel strip. The drain contact contacts a second end of the channel strip. The high-k diel...