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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Sep. 14, 2021

Filed:

Apr. 17, 2019
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Andrew T. Kim, Orangevale, CA (US);

Baozhen Li, South Burlington, VT (US);

Chih-Chao Yang, Glenmont, NY (US);

Ernest Y. Wu, Essex Junction, VT (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 23/525 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 23/5256 (2013.01);
Abstract

An e-Fuse device including a first electronic feature and a second electronic feature comprised of a conductive material, each of the first electronic feature and the second electronic feature having a width at least as great as a ground rule of a patterning process; and a fuse element comprised of the conductive material having a width less than the ground rule of the patterning process, the fuse element connecting a bottom portion of the first electronic feature and a bottom portion of the second electronic feature. Also disclosed is a method of making the e-Fuse device.


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