Patent 9893070 was granted and assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company on February, 2018 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A method of fabricating a semiconductor device. The method includes forming a dummy structure over a substrate, forming conductive features on opposite sides of the dummy gate structure, removing the dummy structure and a portion of the substrate beneath the dummy gate structure to form a trench, and filling the trench with a dielectric material.