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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 07, 2021
Filed:
Jan. 15, 2020
Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Bharani Chava, Cork City, IE;
Stanley Seungchul Song, San Diego, CA (US);
QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide apparatus and techniques for fabricating a semiconductor device. A semiconductor device includes: an active device layer a local interconnect layer disposed above the active device layer; a dielectric layer disposed above the local interconnect layer; a metal layer disposed above the dielectric layer; and one or more metal sections disposed in the dielectric layer underneath one or more metal regions of the metal layer, wherein none of the one or more metal sections is electrically connected to a trace in the local interconnect layer.