US Patent Issued to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing on Sept. 23 for "Multi-gate transistor channel height adjustment" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,426,347, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Multi-gate transistor channel height adjustment" was invented by Pei-Ling Kao (Tainan, Taiwan), You-Ting Lin (Miaoli County, Taiwan), Chih-Chung Chang (Nantou County, Taiwan), Jiun-Ming Kuo (Taipei, Taiwan) and Yuan-Ching Peng (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes providing a semiconductor substrate having a first region and a second region, epitaxially growing a semiconductor layer above the semiconductor substrate, patterning the semiconductor layer to form a first fin in the first region and a secon...