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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 04, 2025
Filed:
Feb. 01, 2024
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd., Hsinchu, TW;
Hiranmay Biswas, Hsinchu, TW;
Chi-Yeh Yu, Hsinchu, TW;
Kuo-Nan Yang, Hsinchu, TW;
Chung-Hsing Wang, Hsinchu, TW;
Stefan Rusu, Hsinchu, TW;
Chin-Shen Lin, Hsinchu, TW;
TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY, LTD., Hsinchu, TW;
Abstract
A conductive line structure includes: first and second offset sets of long pillars that are substantially coaxial on an intra-set basis; a third set of offset short pillars, the short pillars being: overlapping of long pillars in the first and second sets; and organized into groups of first quantities of the short pillars; each of the groups being overlapping of and electrically coupled between a pair of one of the long pillars in the first set and a one of the long pillars in the second set such that, in each of the groups, each short pillar being overlapping of and electrically coupled between the pair; and each long pillar in each of the first and second sets being overlapped by a second quantity of short pillars in the third set and being electrically coupled to same; and the first quantity being less than the second quantity.