Patent 11075120 was granted and assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company on July, 2021 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A device includes a fin over a substrate, the fin including a first end and a second end, wherein the first end of the fin has a convex profile, an isolation region adjacent the fin, a gate structure along sidewalls of the fin and over the top surface of the fin, a gate spacer laterally adjacent the gate structure, and an epitaxial region adjacent the first end of the fin.