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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 24, 2016
Filed:
Jun. 25, 2015
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Josephine B. Chang, Mahopac, NY (US);
Michael A. Guillorn, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
Hiroyuki Miyazoe, White Plains, NY (US);
Adam M. Pyzyna, Cortlandt Manor, NY (US);
Hsinyu Tsai, White Plains, NY (US);
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Structures including alternating first U-shaped electrodes and second U-shaped electrodes and contact pads interconnecting the first and the second U-shaped electrodes are provided. Each of the first U-shaped electrodes includes substantially parallel straight portions connected by a bent portion located on one end of a substrate. Each of the second U-shaped electrodes includes substantially parallel straight portions connected by a bent portion located on an opposite end of the substrate. Every adjacent straight portions of neighboring first and second U-shaped electrodes constitute an electrode pair having a sub-lithographic pitch. Each of the contact pads overlaps and contacts the bent portion of one of the first and the U-shaped electrodes.