US Patent Issued to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing on Sept. 30 for "Contact plugs for semiconductor device and method of forming same" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,412, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Contact plugs for semiconductor device and method of forming same" was invented by Mrunal A. Khaderbad (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Yasutoshi Okuno (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Sung-Li Wang (Zhubei, Taiwan), Pang-Yen Tsai (Jhubei, Taiwan), Shen-Nan Lee (Jhudong Township, Taiwan) and Teng-Chun Tsai (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device and a method of forming the same are provided. A method includes forming a gate over a semiconductor structure. An epitaxial source/drain region is formed adjacent the gate. A dielectri...