Texas Instruments Corporation

Venugopal Balakrishna Menon

Xiaoju Wu

Robert M Higgins

Li Wang

A method of manufacturing an electronic device includes forming a shallow trench isolation (STI) structure on or in a semiconductor surface layer and forming a mask on the semiconductor surface layer, where the mask exposes a surface of a dielectric material of the STI structure and a prospective local oxidation of silicon (LOCOS) portion of a surface of the semiconductor surface layer. The method also includes performing an oxidation process using the mask to oxidize silicon in an indent in the dielectric material of the STI structure and to grow an oxide material on the exposed LOCOS portion of the surface of the semiconductor surface layer.

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Venugopal Balakrishna Menon