US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on May 26 for "Semiconductor device including active region and semiconductor layer on side surface of active region" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,641,772, issued on May 26, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Semiconductor device including active region and semiconductor layer on side surface of active region" was invented by Jaepil Lee (Seoul, South Korea) and Hijung Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate, an active region on the semiconductor substrate and including a first semiconductor material, an isolation layer on the semiconductor substrate and a side surface of the active region, a first gate structure in a first gate trench crossing the active region, a second g...