US 12,464,801 B2
Circuit structure with gate configuration
Ru-Shang Hsiao, Hsinchu County (TW); Ying Hsin Lu, Tainan (TW); Ching-Hwanq Su, Tainan (TW); Pin Chia Su, Tainan County (TW); and Ling-Sung Wang, Tainan (TW)
Assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING CO., LTD., Hsinchu (TW)
Filed by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd., Hsin-Chu (TW)
Filed on Jun. 24, 2024, as Appl. No. 18/752,321.
Application 18/752,321 is a continuation of application No. 18/171,128, filed on Feb. 17, 2023, granted, now 12,021,130.
Application 18/171,128 is a continuation of application No. 17/175,368, filed on Feb. 12, 2021, granted, now 11,588,038, issued on Feb. 21, 2023.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/001,922, filed on Mar. 30, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2024/0347614 A1, Oct. 17, 2024
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. H01L 29/423 (2006.01); H01L 27/088 (2006.01); H01L 29/40 (2006.01); H01L 29/786 (2006.01); H10D 30/67 (2025.01); H10D 64/00 (2025.01); H10D 64/27 (2025.01); H10D 84/83 (2025.01)
CPC H10D 64/518 (2025.01) [H10D 30/6735 (2025.01); H10D 30/6757 (2025.01); H10D 64/112 (2025.01); H10D 84/83 (2025.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A semiconductor circuit structure, comprising:
a semiconductor substrate having a first circuit region and a second circuit region;
active regions extended from the semiconductor substrate and surrounded by isolation features;
first transistors that include first gate stacks formed on the active regions and disposed in the first circuit region, the first gate stacks having a first gate pitch;
second transistors that include second gate stacks formed on the active regions and disposed in the second circuit region, the second gate stacks having a second gate pitch greater than the first gate pitch; and
a dummy region surrounding the second transistors, wherein the dummy region includes first dummy gates configured next to the second gate stacks and having a third
gate pitch being equal to the second gate pitch, and
second dummy gates configured next to the first dummy gates and separated from the second gate stacks by the first dummy gates, the second dummy gates having a fourth gate pitch less than the second gate pitch.