Patent ID: 8274110

Claim:
A transistor structure comprising: a semiconductor material base; a semiconductor material mesa upstanding from said base; a plurality of electrically isolated first silicide material elements on a top surface of said mesa; a second silicide material element supported on said semiconductor material base at least at a first side of said mesa for supplying an electrical connection to said mesa; first and second regions respectively coupled to the first and second silicide material elements, the first and second regions being doped to a first conduction type and one or more channel regions between the first and second regions being doped to a second conduction type; a first mesa sidewall gate structure provided on said first side of said mesa and comprising a gate insulator material and an overlying gate conductor, said first mesa sidewall gate structure being operative to control current flow through said channel regions between said second silicide material element and each of said first silicide material elements through said mesa; and a plurality of operative electrical devices respectively connected to each of said first silicide elements.