US Patent Issued to IMEC VZW on Sept. 22 for "Semiconductor component with metal-insulator-metal capacitor assembly" (Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,745,627, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to IMEC VZW (Leuven, Belgium).

"Semiconductor component with metal-insulator-metal capacitor assembly" was invented by Eric Beyne (Heverlee, Belgium), Philip Nolmans (Hoeleden, Belgium) and Kenichi Miyaguchi (Heverlee, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed technology is related to semiconductor components, including a multilayer structure with a plurality of MIM capacitors. The capacitors are realized as an assembly of capacitors in the form of a stack of at least three electrically conductive layers, separated by dielectric layers and formed conformally on a topography defined by...