US Patent Issued to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING on June 30 for "Semiconductor device with waveguide structure and method for manufacturing the same" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,643, issued on June 30, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Semiconductor device with waveguide structure and method for manufacturing the same" was invented by Wei-Li Lo (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Huan-Chieh Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Yao-Wen Chang (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Chih-Ming Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device includes: forming a first waveguide structure and a second waveguide structure on a substrate in which the first waveguide structure and the second waveguide structure is spaced apart from each other by a recess; confor...