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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 31, 2006
Filed:
Sep. 26, 2001
Applicants:
Young-jin Park, Kyoungki-do, KR;
Gerhard Mueller, Meitingen, DE;
Inventors:
Young-Jin Park, Kyoungki-do, KR;
Gerhard Mueller, Meitingen, DE;
Assignee:
Infineon Technologies AG, Munich, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 23/528 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The invention describes the use of conductive lines having a non-rectangular shaped cross section to reduce line capacitance for a given pitch. Such conductive lines can reduce the height of integrated circuits with multi-level conductive lines without increasing line-to-line capacitance.