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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:
Sep. 04, 2007
Filed:
Jul. 12, 2005
Applicants:
Mario M. Pelella, Mountain View, CA (US);
Simon S. Chan, Saratoga, CA (US);
Inventors:
Mario M. Pelella, Mountain View, CA (US);
Simon S. Chan, Saratoga, CA (US);
Assignee:
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 27/01 (2006.01); H01L 27/12 (2006.01); H01L 31/0392 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An integrated circuit (IC) utilizes a strained layer. The substrate can utilize trenches in a base layer to induce stress in a layer. The trenches define pillars on a back side of a bulk substrate or base layer of a semiconductor-on-insulator (SOI) wafer.