US Patent Issued to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing on July 14 for "Phase change material radio-frequency switch for low power consumption and methods for forming the same" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,036, issued on July 14, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Phase change material radio-frequency switch for low power consumption and methods for forming the same" was invented by Hung-Ju Li (Hsinchu city, Taiwan), Yu-Wei Ting (Taipei City, Taiwan), Hui Hung Kuo (Kaohsiung city, Taiwan), Chien Ta Huang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Kuo-Pin Chang (Zhubei city, Taiwan) and Kuo-Ching Huang (Hsinchu city, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device structure includes a heater line located over a substrate, an aluminum nitride layer having an inhomogeneous material composition, and a phase change mater...