US Patent Issued to Tokyo Electron on April 7 for "Method of forming conductive member and method of forming channel" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,926, issued on April 7, was assigned to Tokyo Electron Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Method of forming conductive member and method of forming channel" was invented by Koji Akiyama (Nirasaki City, Japan), Chihiro Tamura (Taiwacho, Japan) and Hisashi Warashina (Taiwacho, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of forming conductive member includes: forming, on substrate, first portion containing first element constituting the conductive member to be obtained and second element causing eutectic reaction with the first element, and second portion containing third element constituting intermetallic compound with the second element; crystallizing ...