US Patent Issued to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing on Aug. 25 for "Phase change material switch with efficient heat spreader and methods for forming the same" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,721,053, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Phase change material switch with efficient heat spreader and methods for forming the same" was invented by Han-Yu Chen (Hsinchu County, Taiwan), Chang-Chih Huang (Taiwan, Taiwan), Yu-Wen Wang (Taichung City, Taiwan), Yi-Han Cheng (Tainan City, Taiwan) and Kuo-Chyuan Tzeng (Chu-Pei city, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A phase-change material switch may include a first interconnect-level dielectric, a heat spreader formed within the first interconnect-level dielectric, a second interconnect-level dielectric formed over the he...