US Patent Issued to STMicroelectronics (Rousset) on July 14 for "Contact for electronic component" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,104, issued on July 14, was assigned to STMicroelectronics (Rousset) SAS (Rousset, France).

"Contact for electronic component" was invented by Christian Rivero (Rousset, France) and Pascal Fornara (Pourrieres, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of manufacturing a contact on a semiconductor region includes a step of forming a stack of layers on lateral walls and at a bottom of an orifice (aligned with the semiconductor region) crossing a dielectric region along a longitudinal direction. The step of forming step is carried out from a first surface of the dielectric region and includes forming a polysilicon layer and a layer...