Including Adhesive Bonding Step Patents (Class 438/118)
  • Patent number: 8841757
    Abstract: An electromagnetic wave shielding layer can be provided on the backside of a semiconductor element that is flip-chip connected to an adherend, and a semiconductor device having the electromagnetic wave shielding layer can be manufactured without deteriorating productivity. The present invention provides a film for the backside of a flip-chip type semiconductor to be formed on the backside of a semiconductor element that is flip-chip connected to an adherend, having an adhesive layer and an electromagnetic wave shielding layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2014
    Assignee: Nitto Denko Corporation
    Inventors: Daisuke Uenda, Takeshi Matsumura, Koichi Inoue, Miki Morita
  • Patent number: 8841780
    Abstract: The present invention provides a dicing tape-integrated wafer back surface protective film including: a dicing tape including a base material and a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer formed on the base material; and a wafer back surface protective film formed on the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer of the dicing tape, in which the wafer back surface protective film is colored. It is preferable that the colored wafer back surface protective film has a laser marking ability. The dicing tape-integrated wafer back surface protective film can be suitably used for a flip chip-mounted semiconductor device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2014
    Assignee: Nitto Denko Corporation
    Inventors: Naohide Takamoto, Takeshi Matsumura
  • Patent number: 8841763
    Abstract: A microelectronic assembly can include first, second and third stacked substantially planar elements, e.g., of dielectric or semiconductor material, and which may have a CTE of less than 10 ppm/° C. The assembly may be a microelectronic package and may incorporate active semiconductor devices in one, two or more of the first, second or third elements to function cooperatively as a system-in-a-package. In one example, an electrically conductive element having at least a portion having a thickness less than 10 microns, may be formed by plating, and may electrically connect two or more of the first, second or third elements. The conductive element may entirely underlie a surface of another one of the substantially planar elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2014
    Assignee: Tessera, Inc.
    Inventors: Vage Oganesian, Belgacem Haba, Ilyas Mohammed, Piyush Savalia, Craig Mitchell
  • Publication number: 20140264802
    Abstract: A semiconductor device with thick bottom metal comprises a semiconductor chip covered with a top plastic package layer at its front surface and a back metal layer at its back surface, the top plastic package layer surrounds sidewalls of the metal bumps with a top surface of the metal bumps exposing from the top plastic package layer, a die paddle for the semiconductor chip to mount thereon and a plastic package body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2013
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Inventors: Hamza Yilmaz, Yan Xun Xue, Jun Lu, Ming-Chen Lu, Yan Huo, Aihua Lu
  • Publication number: 20140273351
    Abstract: A method for encapsulating at least one micro-device, comprising at least the following steps: bonding a face of a first substrate comprising at least one material impermeable to noble gases, in contact with a second substrate comprising glass and with a thickness of about 300 ?m or more; etching at least one cavity through the second substrate such that side walls of the cavity are at least partly formed by remaining portions of the second substrate and that an upper wall of the cavity is formed by part of said face of the first substrate; anodic bonding of the remaining portions of the second substrate in contact with a third substrate in which the micro-device is formed, such that the micro-device is encapsulated in the cavity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2014
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENE ALT
    Inventor: Stephane NICOLAS
  • Publication number: 20140264950
    Abstract: In various embodiments, a chip arrangement is provided. The chip arrangement may include a chip carrier and a chip mounted on the chip carrier. The chip may include at least two chip contacts and an insulating adhesive between the chip and the chip carrier to adhere the chip to the chip carrier. The at least two chip contacts may be electrically coupled to the chip carrier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2013
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES AG
    Inventors: Rainer Steiner, Edward Fuergut, Khalil Hosseini, Georg Meyer-Berg, Joachim Mahler
  • Publication number: 20140264844
    Abstract: Semiconductor devices are described that have a through-substrate via formed therein. In one or more implementations, the semiconductor devices include a semiconductor wafer and an integrated circuit die bonded together with an adhesive material. The semiconductor wafer and the integrated circuit die include one or more integrated circuits formed therein. The integrated circuits are connected to one or more conductive layers deployed over the surfaces of the semiconductor wafer and an integrated circuit die. A via is formed through the semiconductor wafer and the patterned adhesive material so that an electrical interconnection can be formed between the integrated circuits formed in the semiconductor wafer and the integrated circuits formed in the integrated circuit die. The via includes a conductive material that furnishes the electrical interconnection between the semiconductor wafer and the integrated circuit die.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2013
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Inventors: Xuejun Ying, Arkadii V. Samoilov, Peter McNally, Tyler Parent
  • Publication number: 20140273345
    Abstract: A method for bonding a hermetic module to an electrode array including the steps of: providing the electrode array having a flexible substrate with a top surface and a bottom surface and including a plurality of pads in the top surface of the substrate; attaching the hermetic module to the bottom surface of the electrode array, the hermetic module having a plurality of bond-pads wherein each bond-pad is adjacent to the bottom surface of the electrode array and aligns with a respective pad; drill holes through each pad to the corresponding bond-pad; filling each hole with biocompatible conductive ink; forming a rivet on the biocompatible conductive ink over each pad; and overmolding the electrode array with a moisture barrier material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: THE CHARLES STARK DRAPER LABORATORY, INC.
    Inventor: The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc.
  • Publication number: 20140264815
    Abstract: Various packages and methods are disclosed. A package according to an embodiment includes a substrate, a chip attached to a surface of the substrate with electrical connectors, a molding compound on the surface of the substrate and around the chip, an adhesive on a surface of the chip that is distal from the surface of the substrate, and a lid on the adhesive. In an embodiment, a region between the molding compound and the lid at a corner of the lid is free from the adhesive. In another embodiment, the lid has a recess in a surface of the lid facing the surface of the molding compound.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2013
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Inventor: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
  • Publication number: 20140264789
    Abstract: Semiconductor packages and methods for forming a semiconductor package are disclosed. The method includes providing a package substrate having first and second major surfaces. The package substrate includes a base substrate having a mold material and a plurality of interconnect structures including via contacts extending through the first to the second major surface of the package substrate. A die having conductive contacts on its first or second surface is provided. The conductive contacts of the die are electrically coupled to the interconnect structures. A cap is formed over the package substrate to encapsulate the die.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: UNITED TEST AND ASSEMBLY CENTER LTD.
    Inventors: Yongbo Yang, Antonio Jr. Bambalan Dimaano, Chun Hong Wo
  • Publication number: 20140264951
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to die adhesive films for integrated circuit (IC) packaging, as well as methods for forming and removing die adhesive films and package assemblies and systems incorporating such die adhesive films. A die adhesive film may be transparent to a first wavelength of light and photoreactive to a second wavelength of light. In some embodiments, the die adhesive film may be applied to a back or “inactive” side of a die, and the die surface may be detectable through the die adhesive film. The die adhesive film may be cured and/or marked with laser energy having the second wavelength of light. The die adhesive film may include a thermochromic dye and/or nanoparticles configured to provide laser mark contrast. UV laser energy may be used to remove the die adhesive film in order to expose underlying features such as TSV pads.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Inventors: Danish Faruqui, Edward R. Prack, Sergei L. Voronov, David K. Wilkinson, JR., Tony Dambrauskas, Lars D. Skoglund, Yoshihiro Tomita, Mihir A. Oka, Rajen C. Dias
  • Patent number: 8835219
    Abstract: An electric device and a method of making an electric device are disclosed. In one embodiment the electric device comprises a component comprising a component contact area and a carrier comprising a carrier contact area. The electric device further comprises a first conductive connection layer connecting the component contact area with the carrier contact area, wherein the first conductive connection layer overlies a first region of the component contact area and a second connection layer connecting the component contact area with the carrier contact area, wherein the second connection layer overlies a second region of the component contact area, and wherein the second connection layer comprises a polymer layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Joachim Mahler, Khalil Hosseini
  • Patent number: 8835772
    Abstract: In order to lower the substantial heating temperature of a thermosetting adhesive and to realize favorable connection reliability during connecting an electrical element to a circuit board by anisotropic conductive connection with using solder particles, a product in which solder particles having a melting temperature Ts are dispersed in an insulating acrylic-based thermosetting resin having a minimum melt viscosity temperature Tv is used as an anisotropic conductive adhesive in producing a connection structure by connecting the circuit board and the electrical element to each other by anisotropic conductive connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Assignee: Dexerials Corporation
    Inventor: Satoshi Igarashi
  • Patent number: 8836130
    Abstract: An object of the invention is to provide a method for producing a conductive member having low electrical resistance, and the conductive member is obtained using a low-cost stable conductive material composition that does not contain an adhesive. In the semiconductor device, silver arranged on a semiconductor element and silver arranged on a base are bonded. No void is present or a small void, if any, is present at an interface between the semiconductor element and the silver arranged on the semiconductor element, no void is present or a small void, if any, is present at an interface between the base and the silver arranged on the base, and one or more silver abnormal growth grains and one or more voids are present in a bonded interface between the silver arranged on the semiconductor element and the silver arranged on the base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Assignee: Nichia Corporation
    Inventors: Masafumi Kuramoto, Satoru Ogawa, Teppei Kunimune
  • Publication number: 20140252584
    Abstract: A method for assembling a packaged integrated circuit is provided. The method includes placing a die into a cavity of a package base, securing the die to the package base with a die attach adhesive, printing a bond connection between a die pad of the die and a lead of the package base or a downbond, and sealing a package lid to the package base.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2013
    Publication date: September 11, 2014
    Applicant: GLOBAL CIRCUIT INNOVATIONS INCORPORATED
    Inventor: Erick Merle Spory
  • Publication number: 20140252591
    Abstract: A semiconductor device comprises a substrate, a die mounted on the substrate, a reinforcement plate bonded to the die, and an adhesive layer coupling the reinforcement plate to the die.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2013
    Publication date: September 11, 2014
    Applicant: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Chen-Hua Yu, Shang-Yun Hou, Cheng-Chieh Hsieh, Tsung-Shu Lin
  • Publication number: 20140252399
    Abstract: An electronics package is disclosed. The electronics package is disclosed as including a substrate core, a metal layer established on top of the substrate core, the metal layer being etched so as to include a die attachment anchor and at least one gap that separates a die bonding pad from at least one of a trace and wire bonding pad, for example. The die attachment anchor is established on top of the die bonding pad and has a depth that does not extend all the way through the die bonding pad.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2013
    Publication date: September 11, 2014
    Applicant: Avago Technologies General IP (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Meng Ee Lee, Eng Chuan Ong, Seong Choon Lim
  • Publication number: 20140252631
    Abstract: A semiconductor wafer contains a plurality of semiconductor die each having a plurality of contact pads. A sacrificial adhesive is deposited over the contact pads. Alternatively, the sacrificial adhesive is deposited over the carrier. An underfill material can be formed between the contact pads. The semiconductor wafer is singulated to separate the semiconductor die. The semiconductor die is mounted to a temporary carrier such that the sacrificial adhesive is disposed between the contact pads and temporary carrier. An encapsulant is deposited over the semiconductor die and carrier. The carrier and sacrificial adhesive is removed to leave a via over the contact pads. An interconnect structure is formed over the encapsulant. The interconnect structure includes a conductive layer which extends into the via for electrical connection to the contact pads. The semiconductor die is offset from the interconnect structure by a height of the sacrificial adhesive.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2010
    Publication date: September 11, 2014
    Applicant: STATS CHIPPAC, LTD.
    Inventors: Reza A. Pagaila, Yaojian Lin, Jun Mo Koo
  • Publication number: 20140252657
    Abstract: An embodiment is a semiconductor device comprising a first bond pad on a first substrate, the first bond pad having a first center line through a center of the first bond pad and orthogonal to a top surface of the first substrate, and a first conductive connector on a second substrate, the first conductive connector having a second center line through a center of the first conductive connector and orthogonal to a top surface of the second substrate, the second substrate over the first substrate with the top surface of the first substrate facing the top surface of the second substrate. The semiconductor device further comprises a first alignment component adjacent the first bond pad on the first substrate, the first alignment component configured to align the first center line with the second center line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2013
    Publication date: September 11, 2014
    Applicant: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Ming-Kai Liu, Chia-Chun Miao, Kai-Chiang Wu, Shih-Wei Liang, Ching-Feng Yang, Yen-Ping Wang, Chun-Lin Lu
  • Patent number: 8828803
    Abstract: A resin sealing method for a plurality of semiconductor chips. The resin sealing method includes a chip holding sheet attaching step of attaching a chip holding sheet through an adhesive ring to a support substrate, a semiconductor chip attaching step of attaching the front side of each semiconductor chip to an adhesive layer constituting the chip holding sheet in an area corresponding to the inside of the adhesive ring, a resin sealing step of sealing all of the semiconductor chips with a mold resin, a support substrate removing step of removing the support substrate from the chip holding sheet on which the semiconductor chips are attached and sealed with the mold resin, and a chip holding sheet peeling step of peeling the chip holding sheet from the front side of each semiconductor chip sealed with the mold resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: Disco Corporation
    Inventor: Karl Priewasser
  • Patent number: 8828802
    Abstract: A wafer level chip scale package includes a first dielectric layer having a first surface, a second surface, and a main through hole passing through the first dielectric layer between the first and second surfaces. A semiconductor die is disposed in the main through hole of the first dielectric layer and including a bond pad disposed away from the first surface of the first dielectric layer. A redistribution layer is electrically connected to the bond pad of the semiconductor die and extends along the second surface of the first dielectric layer. A second dielectric layer covers the first dielectric layer and the redistribution layer and has an opening exposing the redistribution layer. An under bump metal fills the opening of the second dielectric layer and is electrically connected to the redistribution layer. A solder ball is electrically connected to the under bump metal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Inventors: Sung Su Park, Kyung Han Ryu, Sang Mok Lee
  • Patent number: 8828805
    Abstract: The formation of a void is suppressed in the assembly of a semiconductor device. An MCU chip and an AFE chip are mounted over a die pad formed of a quadrangle having a pair of first sides and a pair of second sides. After wire bonding is carried out on the MCU chip and the AFE chip, resin is supplied from the side of one second side of the two second sides to the side of the other second side. The resin is thereby passed through the opening between a first pad group and a second pad group over the MCU chip to fill the area between the chips and thus the formation of a void is suppressed in the area between the chips.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: Renesas Electronics Corporation
    Inventor: Masato Numazaki
  • Patent number: 8828792
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods for assembling nanostructures. The assembling methods include contacting the plurality of nanostructures to a substrate having one or more discontinuities. At least a portion of the plurality of nanostructures assemble adjacent to the discontinuity, the assembled nanostructures including at least one nanostructure having a bridging, molecule. Devices, such as field-effect transistors, are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: The Trustees of The University of Pennsylvania
    Inventors: Marija Drndic, Michael D. Fischbein
  • Patent number: 8822272
    Abstract: To provide a semiconductor device capable of being easily subjected to a physical test without deteriorating characteristics. According to a measuring method of a semiconductor device in which an element layer provided with a test element including a terminal portion is sealed with first and second films having flexibility, the first film formed over the terminal portion is removed to form a contact hole reaching the terminal portion; the contact hole is filled with a resin containing a conductive material; heating is carried out after arranging a wiring substrate having flexibility over the resin with which filling has been performed so that the terminal portion and the wiring substrate having flexibility are electrically connected via the resin containing a conductive material; and a measurement is performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takuya Tsurume, Etsuko Asano
  • Patent number: 8823164
    Abstract: A chip packaging apparatus includes a substrate, a load frame attached to the substrate by an adhesive material, the load frame being formed to define an aperture and a semiconductor chip mounted on the substrate within the aperture. A thickness of the adhesive material between the load frame and the substrate is varied and adjusted such that a surface of the load frame opposite the substrate is disposed substantially in parallel to a surface of the chip opposite the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Evan G. Colgan, Michael A. Gaynes, Jeffrey A. Zitz
  • Patent number: 8822276
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of bonding a chip to an external electric circuit. The conductors of the external electric circuit for connection to the chip are formed with physical extensions and the chip is directly bonded to these extensions. The invention also relates to an electric device comprising at least one chip and an external electric circuit. The chip is directly bonded to physical extensions of conductors of the external electric circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Leif Bergstedt
  • Patent number: 8822269
    Abstract: Even when a stiffener is omitted, the semiconductor device which can prevent the generation of twist and distortion of a wiring substrate is obtained. As for a semiconductor device which has a wiring substrate, a semiconductor chip by which the flip chip was made to the wiring substrate, and a heat spreader adhered to the back surface of the semiconductor chip, and which omitted the stiffener for reinforcing a wiring substrate and maintaining the surface smoothness of a heat spreader, a wiring substrate has a plurality of insulating substrates in which a through hole whose diameter differs, respectively was formed, and each insulating substrate contains a glass cloth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: Renesas Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Eiji Hayashi, Kyo Go, Kozo Harada, Shinji Baba
  • Publication number: 20140239471
    Abstract: Various aspects of the disclosure are directed to integrated circuit (IC) die leadframe packages. In accordance with one or more embodiments, a stainless steel leadframe apparatus has a polymer-based layer that adheres to both stainless steel and IC die encapsulation, with the stainless steel conducting signals/data between respective surfaces for communicating with the packaged IC die. In some embodiments, the apparatus includes the IC die adhered to the polymer-based layer via an adhesive, wire bonds coupled to the stainless steel leadframe for passing the signals/data, and an encapsulation epoxy that encapsulates the IC die and wire bonds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2013
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: NXP B.V.
    Inventors: Peeradech Khunpukdee, Bodin Kasemset, Ernst Eiper, Christian Zenz
  • Publication number: 20140239074
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method of designing & manufacturing anti-counterfeiting RFID tags, the anti-counterfeiting RFID tags obtained and the anti-counterfeiting package related. The invention belongs to application of radio frequency identification technology. The tag design comprises an adopted folded dipole antenna form using fragile paper as antenna substrate board. Integrate antenna and fragile paper substrate board securely and firmly. In alignment with the central position of the chip overlay an “island”-type compound gasket on the bottom surface of fragile paper substrate, so that the antenna forms an arch spatial structure at the center position of the IC chip. Coating the fragile paper substrate surface with adhesive, then compounding with cover layer material which coated with release fragile film former. The sizes of surface material and adhesive are larger than that of the fragile paper substrate board.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2012
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Inventor: Gang Wang
  • Patent number: 8815650
    Abstract: A method of manufacture of an integrated circuit packaging system includes: providing a substrate; mounting an integrated circuit above the substrate with an interconnect directly connecting between the substrate and the integrated circuit; and forming an under-fill between the integrated circuit and the substrate having a cast side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignee: STATS ChipPAC Ltd.
    Inventor: Reza Argenty Pagaila
  • Patent number: 8815645
    Abstract: A multi-chip stacking method to reduce voids between stacked chips is revealed. A first chip is disposed on a substrate, and a plurality of first bonding wires are formed by wire bonding to electrically connect the first chip and the substrate. A second chip is disposed on an active surface of the first chip where a FOW (film over wire) adhesive is formed on a back surface of the second chip. The FOW adhesive partially encapsulates the first bonding wires and adheres to the active surface of the first chip. Then, the substrate is placed in a pressure oven to provide a positive pressure greater than one atm during thermally curing the FOW adhesive with exerted pressures. Accordingly, voids can be reduced inside the FOW adhesive during the multi-chip stacked processes where issues of poor adhesion and popcorn between chips can be avoided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignee: Walton Advanced Engineering, Inc.
    Inventors: Kuo-Yuan Lee, Yung-Hsiang Chen, Wen-Chun Chiu
  • Publication number: 20140231983
    Abstract: The present invention provides a film adhesive that can prevent a thermal effect to a semiconductor wafer and that can suppress warping of the semiconductor wafer; a dicing tape with a film adhesive; and a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device. The present invention relates to a film adhesive comprising a thermoplastic resin and electrically conductive particles, the film adhesive having an adhesion strength measured at 25° C. after the film adhesive is pasted to a mirror silicon wafer at 40° C. of 0.5 N/10 mm or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2014
    Publication date: August 21, 2014
    Inventors: Yuki SUGO, Yuta KIMURA
  • Patent number: 8810027
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a device having a plurality of bonded substrates. The substrates are bonded by a first bond ring and a second bond ring. In an embodiment, the first bond ring is a eutectic bond and the second bond ring is at least one of an organic material and a eutectic bond. The second bond ring encircles the first bond ring. The first bond ring provides a hermetic region of the device. In a further embodiment, a plurality of wafers are bonded which include a third bond ring disposed at the periphery of the wafers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Chun-Wen Cheng, Hsueh-An Yang
  • Patent number: 8809123
    Abstract: Three dimensional integrated circuit (3DIC) structures and hybrid bonding methods for semiconductor wafers are disclosed. A 3DIC structure includes a first semiconductor device having first conductive pads disposed within a first insulating material on a top surface thereof, the first conductive pads having a first recess on a top surface thereof. The 3DIC structure includes a second semiconductor device having second conductive pads disposed within a second insulating material on a top surface thereof coupled to the first semiconductor device, the second conductive pads having a second recess on a top surface thereof. A sealing layer is disposed between the first conductive pads and the second conductive pads in the first recess and the second recess. The sealing layer bonds the first conductive pads to the second conductive pads. The first insulating material is bonded to the second insulating material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Ping-Yin Liu, Xin-Hua Huang, Lan-Lin Chao, Chia-Shiung Tsai
  • Patent number: 8811031
    Abstract: A multichip module comprising: a base substrate; a wiring board disposed on the base substrate and having a wiring pattern; an adhesive layer configured to bond the base substrate to the wiring board while maintaining an electrical connection between the base substrate and the wiring board; and a plurality of chips connected to a surface of the wiring board, the surface being opposite the adhesive layer, wherein, assuming that ? is a coefficient of thermal expansion of the wiring board, ? is a coefficient of thermal expansion of the base substrate, and ? is a coefficient of thermal expansion of the adhesive layer, the relationship ?<?<? is satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Masateru Koide, Daisuke Mizutani
  • Patent number: 8810023
    Abstract: A packaged sensor MEMS (100) has a semiconductor chip (101) with a protected cavity (102) including a sensor (105), the cavity surrounded by solder bumps (130) attached to the chip terminals; further a leadframe with elongated and radially positioned leads (131), the central lead ends (131a) attached to the bumps. Insulating material (120) encapsulates chip and central lead ends, leaving the chip surface (101a) opposite the cavity and the peripheral lead ends (131b) un-encapsulated. The un-encapsulated peripheral lead ends are bent into cantilevers for attachment to a horizontal substrate (160), the cantilevers having a geometry to accommodate, under a force lying in the plane of the substrate, elastic bending and stretching beyond the limit of simple elongation based upon inherent material characteristics, especially when supported by lead portions with curved, toroidal, or multiple-bendings geometries.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventor: Sreenivasan Koduri
  • Patent number: 8810044
    Abstract: The present invention provides a dicing tape-integrated wafer back surface protective film including: a dicing tape including a base material and a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer formed on the base material; and a wafer back surface protective film formed on the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer of the dicing tape, in which the wafer back surface protective film is colored. It is preferable that the colored wafer back surface protective film has a laser marking ability. The dicing tape-integrated wafer back surface protective film can be suitably used for a flip chip-mounted semiconductor device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignee: Nitto Denko Corporation
    Inventors: Naohide Takamoto, Takeshi Matsumura
  • Publication number: 20140225283
    Abstract: A semiconductor assembly comprises a semiconductor wafer, an adhesive coating disposed on the back side of the wafer, and a bare dicing tape, preferably UV radiation transparent. The assembly is prepared by the method comprising (a) providing a semiconductor wafer, (b) disposing a wafer back side coating on the semiconductor wafer, (c) partially curing the wafer back side coating to the extent that it adheres to the back side of the wafer and remains tacky, and (d) contacting the bare dicing tape to the partially cured and tacky wafer back side coating, optionally with heat and pressure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Publication date: August 14, 2014
    Applicant: HENKEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Gyanendra Dutt, Qizhuo Zhuo, Elizabeth Hoang, Stephen Ruatta
  • Publication number: 20140227831
    Abstract: A method of forming an integrated circuit structure is provided. The method includes providing a substrate, the substrate having a conductive pad thereon. A dielectric buffer layer is formed over at least a portion of the conductive pad, and an under-bump-metallurgy (UBM) is formed directly coupled to the conductive pad, wherein the UBM extends over at least a portion of the dielectric buffer layer. Thereafter, a conductive pillar is formed over the UBM, and one or more conductive materials are formed over the conductive pillar. The substrate may be attached to a carrier substrate using an adhesive.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2014
    Publication date: August 14, 2014
    Applicant: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Hon-Lin Huang, Ching-Wen Hsiao, Kuo-Ching Hsu, Chen-Shien Chen
  • Patent number: 8802504
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure include a semiconductor device and methods of forming a semiconductor device. An embodiment is a method of forming a semiconductor device, the method comprising forming a conductive pad in a first substrate, forming an interconnecting structure over the conductive pad and the first substrate, the interconnecting structure comprising a plurality of metal layers disposed in a plurality of dielectric layers, bonding a die to a first side of the interconnecting structure, and etching the first substrate from a second side of the interconnecting structure, the etching exposing a portion of the conductive pad.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shang-Yun Hou, Sao-Ling Chiu, Ping-Kang Huang, Wen Hsin Wei, Wen-Chih Chiou, Shin-Puu Jeng, Bruce C. S. Chou
  • Patent number: 8802776
    Abstract: An epoxy resin composition having excellent connection reliability and transparency, a method for manufacturing a composite unit using the epoxy resin composition, and the composite unit, are disclosed. The manufacturing method includes an attaching step of attaching an epoxy resin composition (2) containing a novolak phenolic curing agent, an acrylic elastomer composed of a copolymer containing dimethylacrylamide and hydroxylethyl methacrylate, an epoxy resin and not less than 5 parts by weight to not more than 20 parts by weight of an inorganic filler to 100 parts by weight of the epoxy resin, to a printed circuit board (1) in the form of a sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: Dexerials Corporation
    Inventors: Taichi Koyama, Hironobu Moriyama, Takashi Matsumura, Takayuki Saito
  • Publication number: 20140217575
    Abstract: A structure includes a thermal interface material, and a Perforated Foil Sheet (PFS) including through-openings therein, with a first portion of the PFS embedded in the thermal interface material. An upper layer of the thermal interface material is overlying the PFS, and a lower layer of thermal interface material is underlying the PFS. The thermal interface material fills through-openings in the PFS.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2013
    Publication date: August 7, 2014
    Applicant: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventor: Wensen Hung
  • Publication number: 20140217620
    Abstract: An electronic device includes: a substrate having first and second surfaces, wherein the first surface is opposite to the second surface; a first electronic element mounted on the first surface of the substrate; a second electronic element mounted on the second surface of the substrate; and a resin mold sealing the first electronic element and the first surface of the substrate. The resin mold further seals the second electronic element on the second surface of the substrate. The second surface of the substrate has a portion, which is exposed from the resin mold. The second electronic element is not disposed on the portion of the second surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2014
    Publication date: August 7, 2014
    Applicant: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tetsuto YAMAGISHI, Tohru NOMURA, Norihisa IMAIZUMI, Yasutomi ASAI
  • Patent number: 8796076
    Abstract: After formation of an opening by exposing and development of the photosensitive surface protection film and adhesive layer which is formed on the circuit side of the semiconductor wafer, the semiconductor chips having a photosensitive surface protection film and adhesive layer thereon is fabricated by cutting individual chips from the semiconductor wafer. After the second semiconductor chip is placed over the first semiconductor chip up by the suction collet, the second semiconductor chip is bonded with the first semiconductor chip by the first surface protection film and adhesive layer. The suction side of the suction collet has lower adhesion to the second semiconductor chip than that between the now bonded semiconductor chips.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Atsushi Yoshimura, Shoko Omizo
  • Patent number: 8796075
    Abstract: Methods for applying an underfill with vacuum assistance. The method may include dispensing the underfill onto a substrate proximate to at least one exterior edge of an electronic device attached to the substrate. A space between the electronic device and the substrate is evacuated through at least one gap in the underfill. The method further includes heating the underfill to cause the underfill to flow into the space. Because a vacuum condition is supplied in the open portion of the space before flow is initiated, the incidence of underfill voiding is lowered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Nordson Corporation
    Inventors: Alec Babiarz, Horatio Quinones, Thomas L. Ratledge
  • Patent number: 8796044
    Abstract: Device structures, fabrication methods, and design structures for a capacitor of a memory cell of ferroelectric random access memory device. The capacitor may include a first electrode comprised of a first conductor, a ferroelectric layer on the first electrode, a second electrode on the ferroelectric layer, and a cap layer on an upper surface of the second electrode. The second electrode may be comprised of a second conductor, and the cap layer may have a composition that is free of titanium. The second electrode may be formed by etching a layer of a material formed on a layer of the second conductor to define a hardmask and then modifying the remaining portion of that material in the hardmask to have a comparatively less etch rate, when exposed to a chlorine-based reactive ion etch chemistry, than when initially formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: James E. Beecher, William J. Murphy, James S. Nakos, Bruce W. Porth
  • Publication number: 20140210064
    Abstract: An integrated circuit (“IC”) assembly includes an IC die with a metallization layer on a top surface thereof. A plurality of lead wires are bonded at first end portions thereof to the metallization layer. A conductive layer is attached to the metallization layer and covers the first ends of the lead wires.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2013
    Publication date: July 31, 2014
    Applicant: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Osvaldo Jorge Lopez, Jonathan Almeria Noquil, Juan Herbsommer
  • Publication number: 20140213019
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device includes: forming, in element regions of a semiconductor wafer, electrodes and a insulator on peripheral part of the electrodes so that a height of the insulator is higher than that of the electrodes; forming, on the front face of the semiconductor wafer, a groove for surrounding a periphery of the electrodes with the insulator being sandwiched between the electrodes and the groove, the groove being formed so that a height of the groove is lower than that of the insulator and the groove extends to an outer circumferential edge of the semiconductor wafer; bonding adhesives onto the electrodes in the element regions so that a height of the adhesives is higher than that of the insulator, and bonding, onto the adhesives, a base material for covering the front face of the semiconductor wafer; and processing a rear face of the semiconductor wafer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2014
    Publication date: July 31, 2014
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Toru ONISHI
  • Publication number: 20140213018
    Abstract: A method includes providing an integrated circuit (IC) die assembly that includes a substrate and an IC die mounted on a portion of a major surface of the substrate, dispensing an interface material on the IC die, positioning a portion of a heat spreader in contact with the interface material, and dispensing an adhesive between one side of the heat spreader facing the IC die assembly and exposed portions of a major surface of an encapsulant on the substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2013
    Publication date: July 31, 2014
    Inventors: Leo M. Higgins III, Burton J. Carpenter
  • Publication number: 20140210106
    Abstract: A PoP (package-on-package) package includes a bottom package coupled to a top package. The bottom package includes a die coupled to an interposer layer with an adhesive layer. One or more terminals are coupled to the interposer layer on the periphery of the die. The terminals and the die are at least partially encapsulated in an encapsulant. The terminals and the die are coupled to a redistribution layer (RDL). Terminals on the bottom of the RDL are used to couple the PoP package to a motherboard or a printed circuit board (PCB). One or more additional terminals couple the interposer layer to the top package. The additional terminals may be located anywhere along the surface of the interposer layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2013
    Publication date: July 31, 2014
    Applicant: APPLE INC.
    Inventor: Jun Zhai