US Patent Issued to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING on Aug. 4 for "Doping free connection structures and methods" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,978, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Doping free connection structures and methods" was invented by Shih-Min Huang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Tzu-Jui Wang (Fengshan, Taiwan), Jung-I Lin (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Hung-Chang Chien (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Kuan-Chieh Huang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Tzu-Hsuan Hsu (Kaohsiung, Taiwan) and Chen-Jong Wang (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Structures with doping free connections and methods of fabrication are provided. An exemplary structure includes a substrate; a first region of a first conductivity type formed in the substrate; an over...