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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. 01, 2004

Filed:

Feb. 15, 2001
Applicant:
Inventors:

David D. Wu, Austin, TX (US);

Michael P. Duane, Round Rock, TX (US);

Scott D. Luning, Austin, TX (US);

Assignee:

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Austin, TX (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 2/1336 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 2/1336 ;
Abstract

A method is provided, the method including forming a gate dielectric above a surface of the substrate and forming a doped-poly gate structure above the gate dielectric, the doped-poly gate structure having an edge region. The method also includes forming a dopant-depleted-poly region in the cage region of the doped-poly gate structure adjacent the gate dielectric.


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