Patent 11783109 was granted and assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company on October, 2023 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A method of forming an IC device includes creating a recess by removing at least a portion of a channel of a first transistor and a portion of a gate electrode, the gate electrode being common to the first transistor and an underlying second transistor. The method includes filling the recess with a dielectric material to form an isolation layer, and constructing a slot via overlying the isolation layer.