Patent ID: 9379025
Filing Date: 2016-06-28
CPC Classification: H01L

Claim Text:
1. An unmerged fin field effect transistor (FinFET) comprising: a plurality of fins on the surface of a semiconductor wafer; one or more gates on said fins; doped conduction regions, at least one of said one or more gates covering a channel between conduction regions on one or more fins; epitaxially grown doped semiconductor material (epi) on and encasing each said fins at a respective said conduction region; an epi capping layer on and covering said epi, said epi capping layer separating adjacent epi encased fins from each other; an inter-level dielectric (ILD) layer on said wafer covering said epi capping layer; and a conduction region contact at each said conduction region, each said conduction region contact through said ILD layer and said epi capping layer and into each said epi encased fin, said each conduction region contact contacting internal epi sidewalls and the respective encased fins.