US Patent Issued to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing on Aug. 25 for "Semiconductor photonics device and methods of formation" (Taiwanese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,180, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Semiconductor photonics device and methods of formation" was invented by Fan Hu (Taipei City, Taiwan), YingKit Felix Tsui (Cupertino, Calif.), Hsiang-Fu Chen (Zhubei City, Taiwan) and Chia-Ming Hung (Zhubei City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor photonics device includes an optical modulator structure and a modulator heater structure in one or more dielectric layers of the semiconductor photonics device. An isolation trench is included around the modulator heater structure to reduce the likelihood of damage to ...