US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on June 9 for "Hybrid orientation channels and mixed orientation bottom epitaxy" (New York, Vermont Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,652,855, issued on June 9, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Hybrid orientation channels and mixed orientation bottom epitaxy" was invented by Brent A. Anderson (Jericho, Vt.), Nicolas Jean Loubet (Guilderland, N.Y.), Shogo Mochizuki (Mechanicville, N.Y.) and Junli Wang (Slingerlands, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the invention are directed to fabrication methods and resulting structures for providing transistors having hybrid crystal orientation channels and mixed crystal orientation bottom epitaxies. In a non-limiting embodiment, a first fin having a first crystal orientation is form...