International Business Machines Corporation

Stmicroelectronics Gmbh

Yannick Daurelle

Wai-Kin Li

Chieh-Yu Lin

A semiconductor device includes a plurality of gates formed upon a semiconductor substrate that includes a plurality of outer active areas (e.g. CMOS/PMOS areas, source/drain regions, etc.) and one or more inner active areas. An isolator is formed upon one or more inner gates associated with the one or more inner active areas. A contact bar electrically connects the outer active areas and/or outer gates and is formed upon the isolator. The isolator electrically insulates the contact bar from the one or more inner active areas and/or the one or more inner gates.

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Crolles, France

Yannick Daurelle