US Patent Issued to ASM IP Holding on June 30 for "Method of forming structures for threshold voltage control" (Belgian, Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,357, issued on June 30, was assigned to ASM IP Holding B.V. (Almere, Netherlands).

"Method of forming structures for threshold voltage control" was invented by Oreste Madia (Leuven, Belgium), Giuseppe Alessio Verni (Jodoigne, Belgium), Qi Xie (Wilsele, Belgium), Michael Eugene Givens (Oud-Heverlee, Belgium), Varun Sharma (Helsinki) and Andrea Illiberi (Leuven, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for depositing threshold voltage shifting layers onto a surface of a substrate and structures and devices formed using the methods are disclosed. An exemplary method includes using a cyclical deposition process, deposit...