Patent ID: 8258499

Claim:
A core-shell-shell (CSS) nanowire transistor (NWT), the NWT comprising: a substrate with a surface; a cylindrical CSS nanostructure with a semiconductor core, an insulator shell surrounding the semiconductor core, and a conductive shell surrounding the insulator shell, the CSS nanostructure having a lower hemicylinder overlying the substrate surface; a gate electrode formed from the conductive shell in a center section of the CSS nanostructure; insulating reentrant stringers located between the substrate surface and the CSS nanostructure lower hemicylinder in the center section; a conductive film gate strap overlying the gate electrode and the reentrant stringers in the center section of the CSS nanostructure; source/drain (S/D) regions formed in exposed regions of the semiconductor core, in end sections of the CSS nanostructure.