Patent 7541267 was granted and assigned to Advanced Micro Devices on June, 2009 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A method includes forming a first rectangular mesa from a layer of semiconducting material and forming a first dielectric layer around the first mesa. The method further includes forming a first rectangular mask over a first portion of the first mesa leaving an exposed second portion of the first mesa and etching the exposed second portion of the first mesa to produce a reversed T-shaped fin from the first mesa.