ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,557,264, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Semiconductor devices" was invented by Minjun Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Kijoon Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Yongseok Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes a gate electrode on a substrate, a memory body structure extending through the gate electrode, a source layer at an end portion of the memory body structure and including germanium doped with p-type impurities, and a drain layer at another end portion of the memory body structure and including a metal or a metal alloy. The memory b...