US Patent Issued to Intel on July 14 for "Epi barrier aligned backside contact" (Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,832, issued on July 14, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Epi barrier aligned backside contact" was invented by Leonard P. Guler (Hillsboro, Ore.), Mohammad Hasan (Aloha, Ore.), Mohit K. Haran (Hillsboro, Ore.), Mauro J. Kobrinsky (Portland, Ore.), Charles H. Wallace (Portland, Ore.) and Tahir Ghani (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments disclosed herein include semiconductor devices and methods of forming such devices. In an embodiment, a semiconductor device comprises a vertical stack of semiconductor channels, a source on a first side of the vertical stack of semiconductor channels, and a drai...