A triple-well CMOS structure having reduced latch-up susceptibility and a
method of fabricating the structure. The method includes forming a buried
P-type doped layer having low resistance under the P-wells and N-wells in
which CMOS transistors are formed and forming a gap in a buried N-type
doped layer formed in the P-wells, the is gap aligned under a contact to
the P-well. The buried P-type doped layer and gap in the buried N-type
doped layer allow a low resistance hole current path around parasitic
bipolar transistors of the CMOS transistors.