Patent 12125751 was granted and assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company on October, 2024 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A semiconductor device includes a substrate, a fin protruding from the substrate, and a gate stack over the substrate and engaging the fin. The fin having a first end and a second end. The semiconductor device also includes a dielectric layer abutting the first end of the fin and spacer features disposed on sidewalls of the gate stack and on a top surface of the dielectric layer.