Abstract: A semiconductor device with a wiring substrate as a stacking element for a semiconductor device stack is described herein. The wiring substrate includes a plastic frame of a first plastic compound and a central region of a second plastic compound. A semiconductor chip is embedded with its back side and its edge sides in the second plastic compound, the active upper side of the semiconductor device being in a coplanar area with the first and second plastic compounds.

Abstract: One embodiment of the invention relates to an electronic component having stacked semiconductor chips, and to a panel for production of the component. In one case, the stack has a flat conductor structure with a chip island on which a stacked semiconductor chip is arranged, while a first semiconductor chip is located underneath it. The chip island is surrounded by flat conductors which have contact pillars. These contact pillars have pillar contact pads which, together with the active upper face of the first semiconductor chip and the upper face areas of a plastic encapsulation compound form a coplanar overall upper face.

Abstract: A device including a housing for a semiconductor chip is disclosed. One embodiment provides a plurality of leads. A first lead forms an external contact element at a first housing side and extends at the first housing side into the housing in the direction of an opposite second housing side. The length of the first lead within the housing is greater than half the distance between the first and the second housing side.

Abstract: The invention relates to an electronic component, which comprises a semiconductor chip. The semiconductor chip is embedded in a plastic housing in such a way that is rear side and its lateral sides are embedded in a plastic molding compound. The lateral sides and/or the rear side of the semiconductor chip have an anchoring region, by means of which the semiconductor chip is in positive engagement with the surrounding plastic molding compound. The invention also relates to a method for producing the component.

Abstract: A method is described for producing through-contacts through a panel-shaped composite body including semiconductor chips and a plastic mass filled with conductive particles. The panel-shaped composite body is introduced between two high-voltage point electrodes. The point electrodes are oriented at positions at which through-contacts are to be introduced through the plastic mass. A high voltage is applied to the point electrodes thereby, forming the through-contacts through the plastic mass.

Abstract: The invention relates to a semiconductor device comprising through contacts through a plastic housing composition and a method for the production thereof. For this purpose, the wiring substrate has a solder deposit on which through contact elements are arranged vertically with respect to the wiring substrate and extend as far as the top side of the semiconductor device.

Abstract: The invention relates to an electronic component and a semiconductor wafer, and a method for producing them. The semiconductor wafer has strip-type separating regions. The separating regions are provided with through contacts in the direction of the rear side of the semiconductor wafer. The semiconductor chip separated from such a semiconductor wafer constitutes an electronic component with external contacts in the form of edge contacts. Such an electronic component of semiconductor chip size can be used in diverse ways.

Abstract: A semiconductor device with surface-mountable outer contacts and to a process for producing it is disclosed. In one embodiment, surface-mountable outer contacts are arranged on outer contact connection surfaces on the underside of the semiconductor device. In their respective center region, the outer contact connection surfaces have at least one recess which has a dovetail-like profile, the areal extent of the recess being smaller than the maximum cross section of an outer contact. In a one process, the recess in the center region is achieved by selective deposition of correspondingly patterned metal layers.

Abstract: An electronic component includes a semiconductor chip with a chip topside, an integrated circuit, and a chip backside. The chip backside includes a magnetic layer. The electronic component further includes a chip carrier with a magnetic layer on its carrier topside. At least one of the two magnetic layers is permanently magnetic such that the semiconductor chip is magnetically fixed on the chip carrier.

Abstract: The invention relates to an electronic module having plug contacts, which has a semiconductor chip embedded in a plastics composition with its rear side and its edge sides. An active top side of the semiconductor chip forms, together with the plastics composition, an overall top side, there being arranged on the latter a rewiring layer with plug contact areas and rewiring lines that connect the plug contact areas to contact areas of the top side of the semiconductor chip.

Abstract: A semiconductor component including a surface-mount housing and a method for producing the same are described herein. The semiconductor component includes lead pieces embedded into a plastic housing composition and arranged on an underside of the housing. External contact areas of the lead pieces are free of the plastic housing composition. A structured solderable coating is arranged on the external contact areas that have been kept free of the plastic housing composition, the coating includes a plurality of electrically conductive and mechanically elastic contact elements.

Abstract: A semiconductor device with a wiring substrate as a stacking element for a semiconductor device stack is described herein. The wiring substrate includes a plastic frame of a first plastic compound and a central region of a second plastic compound. A semiconductor chip is embedded with its back side and its edge sides in the second plastic compound, the active upper side of the semiconductor device being in a coplanar area with the first and second plastic compounds.

Abstract: A sensor component and a panel used for the production thereof is disclosed. The sensor component has, in addition to a sensor chip with a sensor region, a rear side and passive components. These are embedded jointly in a plastics composition, in such a way that their respective electrodes can be wired from an overall top side of a plastic plate.

Abstract: A method is described for producing through-contacts through a panel-shaped composite body including semiconductor chips and a plastic mass filled with conductive particles. The panel-shaped composite body is introduced between two high-voltage point electrodes. The point electrodes are oriented at positions at which through-contacts are to be introduced through the plastic mass. A high voltage is applied to the point electrodes thereby, forming the through-contacts through the plastic mass.

Abstract: An external contact material for external contacts of a semiconductor device and a method for producing the same are described. The external contact material includes a lead-free solder material. Provided in the solder material is a filler which forms a plurality of gas pores and/or has plastic particles which are arranged in the volume of the solder material.

Abstract: The invention relates to a support (4) with solder ball elements (1) for loading substrates (2) with ball contacts. Furthermore, the invention relates to a system for loading substrates (2) with ball contacts and to a method for loading substrates (2) with ball contacts. For this purpose, the support (4) has a layer of adhesive (5) applied on one side, the layer of adhesive (5) losing its adhesive force to the greatest extent when irradiated. Furthermore, the support (4) has solder ball elements (1), which are arranged closely packed in rows (6) and columns (7) on the layer of adhesive (5) in a prescribed pitch (w) for a semiconductor chip or a semiconductor component.

Abstract: The invention relates to a panel and a semiconductor device including a composite plate with semiconductor chips and a plastic packaging compound, and to processes for producing them. For this purpose, the panel having a composite plate has semiconductor chips arranged in rows and columns on a top side of a wiring substrate. The wiring substrate is covered by a plastic packaging compound in a plurality of semiconductor device positions, the rear sides of the semiconductor chips being fixed on the wiring substrate. A plastic packaging compound in the region of the boundary surfaces with the semiconductor chips has a coefficient of thermal expansion which is matched to that of silicon, while the remaining plastic packaging compound has a coefficient of thermal expansion which is matched to that of the wiring substrate and is therefore correspondingly higher.

Abstract: The invention relates to an electronic component, which comprises a semiconductor chip. The semiconductor chip is embedded in a plastic housing in such a way that is rear side and its lateral sides are embedded in a plastic molding compound. The lateral sides and/or the rear side of the semiconductor chip have an anchoring region, by means of which the semiconductor chip is in positive engagement with the surrounding plastic molding compound. The invention also relates to a method for producing the component.

Abstract: A semiconductor device with surface-mountable outer contacts and to a process for producing it is disclosed. In one embodiment, surface-mountable outer contacts are arranged on outer contact connection surfaces on the underside of the semiconductor device. In their respective center region, the outer contact connection surfaces have at least one recess which has a dovetail-like profile, the areal extent of the recess being smaller than the maximum cross section of an outer contact. In a one process, the recess in the center region is achieved by selective deposition of correspondingly patterned metal layers.

Abstract: A smart card for contact data transmission includes a card body and a smart card module which is fitted in the card body. The smart card module includes a semiconductor chip with an active upper surface, a plastic housing compound that surrounds the semiconductor chip and includes at least one surface that is coplanar with the active upper surface of the semiconductor chip, a first dielectric layer that is arranged on the plastic housing compound surface and on the active upper surface of the semiconductor chip, one or more interposer metallization levels, which are isolated via further dielectric layers and are connected to the active upper surface of the semiconductor chip, and external contact surfaces. The external contact surfaces are formed on the outermost interposer level and facilitate contact data transmission. The smart card module uses no bonding wires and has a very small physical volume.