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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:
Jun. 16, 2026

Filed:

May. 27, 2022
Applicant:

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd., Hsinchu, TW;

Inventors:

Cheng-Wei Chang, Taipei City, TW;

Shahaji B. More, Hsinchu City, TW;

Chi-Yu Chou, Zhubei City, TW;

Yueh-Ching Pai, Taichung City, TW;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H10D 62/10 (2025.01); H10D 30/01 (2025.01); H10D 30/67 (2025.01); H10D 84/01 (2026.01); H10D 84/03 (2025.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H10D 62/118 (2025.01); H10D 30/031 (2025.01); H10D 30/6735 (2025.01); H10D 30/6755 (2025.01); H10D 30/6757 (2025.01); H10D 84/0128 (2025.01); H10D 84/0151 (2025.01); H10D 84/038 (2025.01);
Abstract

Some implementations described herein provide a semiconductor device having an oxide-filled barrier structure between structures of gate-all-around transistors included in the semiconductor device. The use of the oxide-filled barrier structure may reduce a distance separating nanosheet structures of a p-type metal-oxide semiconductor fin structure and an n-type metal-oxide semiconductor fin structure, broaden an availability of work-function metals for gate structures formed around nanochannels of the p-type metal-oxide semiconductor fin structure and n-type metal-oxide semiconductor structure, and improve a performance of the gate-all-around transistors by reducing miller capacitances of the gate-all-around transistors. Furthermore, the oxide-filled barrier structure may enable the combining of the p-type metal-oxide semiconductor fin structure and the n-type metal-oxide semiconductor fin structure to form a type of integrated circuitry, such as an inverter.


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