US Patent Issued to VANGUARD INTERNATIONAL SEMICONDUCTOR on Nov. 25 for "Semiconductor structure that includes self-aligned contact plugs and methods for manufacturing the same" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,482,706, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to VANGUARD INTERNATIONAL SEMICONDUCTOR Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Semiconductor structure that includes self-aligned contact plugs and methods for manufacturing the same" was invented by Po-Hsiang Liao (New Taipei, Taiwan), Sheng-Wei Fu (Taoyuan, Taiwan) and Chung-Yeh Lee (Xinpu Township, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor structure includes a substrate, several gate structures formed in the substrate, dielectric portions formed on the respective gate structures, spacers adjacent to and extending along the sidewalls of the dielectric portions, source regions formed between the s...