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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 04, 2000
Filed:
Sep. 25, 1997
Applicant:
Inventor:
Richard K Klein, Mountain View, CA (US);
Assignee:
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
257350 ; 257 59 ; 257347 ; 257368 ; 257329 ; 257330 ; 257332 ;
Abstract
A device structure and a method of forming the structure comprising a thin film transistor (TFT) in a contact opening of a conventional field effect transistor (FET) by using .alpha.-silicon in the opening and the vertical portion of the .alpha.-silicon functioning as the channel for the TFT and both the FET and TFT sharing a common drain contact.