ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,785, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
"Semiconductor manufacturing" was invented by Jhon Jhy Liaw (Zhudong Township, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Short channel, horizontal gate-all-around (GAA) nanostructure (e.g., nanosheet, nanowire, or the like) transistors, methods of manufacturing and devices formed with the GAA transistors are disclosed herein. According to some methods, the GAA transistors are formed with a guard band for preventing diffusion of APT doping into the channel region, with shallow source/drain depths, and/or with epitaxial growth of the devi...