Abstract: A capacitor has a lower electrode, a dielectric thin film, an upper electrode, and an insulation cover layer formed on an insulation substrate made of an organic film or a ceramic material, and through holes formed at positions corresponding to input and output pads of a semiconductor element or to input and output terminals of a semiconductor package, with electrodes for connection to input and output pads of a semiconductor element or to input and output terminals of a semiconductor package provided within through holes. In a method for mounting the capacitor, the capacitor is interposed between a flip-chip connected semiconductor element and a mounting substrate.

Abstract: A semiconductor package comprising an LSI chip, a chip bump, an interposer, and a BGA bump is mounted at a predetermined position of a printed wiring board having a core layer. A heat sink for dissipating heat generated from the LSI chip is installed within the core layer. Further, heat radiating vias for conveying heat generated from the LSI chip to the heat sink are provided within the printed wiring board so that the BGA bump in the LSI chip is thermally liked with the heat sink. The heat generated from the LSI chip is mainly dissipated through a route of chip bump→interposer→BGA bump→heat radiating via→heat sink. By virtue of the above construction, the semiconductor device packaging structure can reduce the packaging volume of the heat sink while providing satisfactory cooling capacity and, at the same time, can minimize the length of signal wiring between LSI chips.

Abstract: A three-dimensional semiconductor device includes a cylindrical heat sink, wherein a CPU is provided on a substantially center of an inner bottom surface of the cylindrical heat sink, semiconductor chips are respectively mounted on an outer peripheral surface and an inner peripheral surface of the cylindrical heat sink, and the CPU is connected to an upper heat sink.

Abstract: The present invention provides a photo-electric combined substrate comprising an electric interconnection part having an electric interconnection layer and an electric insulating layer as well as an optical waveguide part consisting of a core and a clad, where the electric insulating layer in the electric interconnection part and the optical waveguide part are made of the same material; a ceramic substrate comprising an optical device and an electric device where a ceramic substrate has a concave where the concave is filled with a resin, and where at least an optical device is mounted on the ceramic substrate while an electric device on the resin in the substrate concave; and an optical waveguide comprising a core and a clad having a refractive index lower than that of the core, where the core is made of a fluorene-unit-containing epoxy acrylate resin.

Abstract: Conductive balls are transferred from a pallet onto an array of conductive pads on a semiconductor chip by means of a transfer apparatus; the transfer apparatus includes a pallet formed with an array of recesses same in pattern as the array of conductive pads, a movable head formed with an array of vacuum holes and a driving mechanism for moving the head from an idle position onto the pallet and from the pallet to the semiconductor chip; when the head is moved to the pallet, the vacuum holes are connected to the recesses so as to confine the conductive balls in the narrow spaces; the vacuum is developed; then the conductive balls are traveled through the closed spaces to the vacuum holes; even if the conductive balls have been charged, the conductive balls are never attracted to the adjacent balls, and are surely captured by the vacuum holes.

Abstract: After an optical element 6, and more preferably both an optical element 6 and an electrical element 7, are mounted on a substrate 1, an upper clad 5 of optical waveguide is formed, covering these elements, and thereby a structure of hermetic seal is achieved through the use of the upper clad 5.

Abstract: An apparatus for lining up micro-balls in accordance with the present invention includes: ball carrying pallets having a plurality of pits for holding the micro-balls, respectively, on its surface, a pallet holder for holding the ball carrying pallets, a lining-up container defining a sealed chamber in association with the pallet holder hermetically fitted thereto, a storing tank for storing liquid carrier in which micro-balls are dispersed, and applying/collecting device for communicating the storing tank with the lining-up container via a passage to supply the micro-balls together with the liquid carrier from the storing tank to the sealed chamber and return the surplus micro-balls together with the liquid carrier from the sealed chamber to the storing tank.

Abstract: A semiconductor device has an LSI device provided with a plurality of power supply line connection pads and ground line connection pad in a peripheral edge part of a circuit-formation surface, metal foil leads 5 electrically connected to each of the pads and adhered to the LSI device via an insulation layer, and decoupling capacitors mounted on one surface of the metal foil leads.

Abstract: A capacitor has a lower electrode, a dielectric thin film, an upper electrode, and an insulation cover layer formed on an insulation substrate made of an organic film or a ceramic material, and through holes formed at positions corresponding to input and output pads of a semiconductor element or to input and output terminals of a semiconductor package, with electrodes for connection to input and output pads of a semiconductor element or to input and output terminals of a semiconductor package provided within through holes. In a method for mounting the capacitor, the capacitor is interposed between a flip-chip connected semiconductor element and a mounting substrate.

Abstract: A metal layer is formed on each surface of topside substrate electrodes on a substrate. Another metal layer is formed on each surface of chip electrodes on a function element chip. Both ends of vertical coil springs are connected to the topside substrate electrodes and the chip electrodes through the metal layers, respectively. In this way, the topside substrate electrodes are connected to the chip electrodes through the vertical coil springs by means of flip hip bonding.

Abstract: A solder ball arrangement device has a thin arrangement plate having a plurality of through-holes of a truncated pyramid shape, a porous member bonded to the arrangement plate, and a housing member for receiving the arrangement plate and the porous member for defining an air space inside the housing member. A suction pump is provided to evacuate the air space and to receive an array of solder balls in the through-holes by suction. The through-holes are formed by etching, and the porous member reinforces the thin arrangement plate.

Abstract: A semiconductor device provided with a thin film capacitor having a small equivalent series inductance is provided, which can be operated at a high frequency range and contributes to size reduction of the electronic devices. The semiconductor device comprises a device formed on a silicon substrate 1a, interlayer insulating films 3a, 3b, and 3c, wiring blocks including a power source wire block and a ground wire block, and a thin film capacitor 14 formed on an uppermost insulating layer. The thin film capacitor 14 comprises a lower electrode 6 connected to the ground wire block 4e through a contact 5d, an upper electrode 8 which is connected to the power source wire block 4d through a contact 5d, and which extends above the lower electrode 6, and a dielectric layer 7 which is inserted between the lower and the upper electrodes.

Abstract: A three-dimensional semiconductor device includes a cylindrical heat sink, wherein a CPU is provided on a substantially center of an inner bottom surface of the cylindrical heat sink, semiconductor chips are respectively mounted on an outer peripheral surface and an inner peripheral surface of the cylindrical heat sink, and the CPU is connected to an upper heat sink.

Abstract: The present invention provides a multilayer capacitor advantageously used as a decoupling capacitor having sufficient capacitance, low self inductance, and a high LC resonance frequency, and a semiconductor device and an electric circuit board that use the same. The electric circuit board of the present invention uses as a decoupling capacitor a three lead multilayer capacitor having a structure wherein a feed-through electrically connected to the power source line of an LSI is surrounded by two internal electrodes connected to a ground line via a dielectric layer. A multilayer capacitor can be used in which a plurality of holes 8, 9, and 10 are provided on a capacitor chip where the plurality of dielectric layers 7 and the plurality of electrode layers 11 and 12 are alternately multilayer, and dielectric parts are provided that electrically connect to a portion of the electrode layers on the internal surface of a portion of the holes among the plurality of holes.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes (a) a semiconductor chip, (b) a patterned lead composed of an electrical conductor and formed on the semiconductor chip in electrical contact with the semiconductor chip, and (c) a resin film sealing a main surface of the semiconductor chip therewith. The lead has a portion projecting beyond the main surface of the semiconductor chip.

Abstract: An apparatus for transferring micro-balls in accordance with the present invention, includes a suction head in which a plurality of suction pits are open for holding the respective micro-balls, a head holder to which the suction head is detachably coupled, a suction device communicating with a suction chamber in the head holder, for allowing the suction pits to hold the micro-balls by decompressing the interior of the suction chamber, and a holder transporting device to which the head holder is mounted, wherein the holder transporting device are movable between a sucking position at which is placed a pallet on which the micro-balls to be held by the suction pits, a transferring position at which is placed a working object to which the micro-balls held by the suction pits, and a head exchanging position at which the replacement of the suction head is carried out relative to the head holder.

Abstract: An apparatus for lining up micro-balls in accordance with the present invention includes: ball carrying pallets having a plurality of pits for holding the micro-balls, respectively, on its surface, a pallet holder for holding the ball carrying pallets, a lining-up container defining a sealed chamber in association with the pallet holder hermetically fitted thereto, a storing tank for storing liquid carrier in which micro-balls are dispersed, and applying/collecting device for communicating the storing tank with the lining-up container via a passage to supply the micro-balls together with the liquid carrier from the storing tank to the sealed chamber and return the surplus micro-balls together with the liquid carrier from the sealed chamber to the storing tank.

Abstract: In a semiconductor package stack module, an LSI (Large Scale Integrated circuit) is mounted, via fine bumps, on a ceramic carrier substrate or a flexible carrier film on which wiring conductors are formed. After a seal resin has been injected, the chip is thinned by, e.g., grinding. A plurality of such carrier substrates or carrier films are connected to each other by bumps via through holes which are electrically connected to the wiring conductors, thereby completing a tridimensional stack module. The module achieves a miniature, thin, dense, low cost, and reliable structure without resorting to a wire bonding system or a TAB (Tape Automated Bonding) system. In addition, the module has a minimum of wiring length and a desirable electric characteristic.

Abstract: A packaged semiconductor device includes an LSI chip, a chip size package integrally bonded to the LSI chip to mount and hold the LSI chip thereon in order to connect an electrode of a board on which the LSI chip is to be mounted and an electrode of the LSI chip to each other, an electrode formed on a surface of the package opposite to a surface thereof which is bonded to the LSI chip, so as to be connected to the electrode of the board, at least one through hole formed to extend through the LSI chip and the package, and a connecting conductor formed to extend through the through hole in order to connect the electrode of the package and the electrode of the LSI package to each other.

Abstract: A laminate printed circuit board loaded with transistors, ICs (Integrated Circuits) or LSIs (Large Scale Integrated Circuits) and a method of producing the same are disclosed. The circuit board includes a signal layer, a ground layer and a power supply layer sequentially laminated with the intermediary of insulation layers. An impedance adding circuit is formed in the power supply layer. A magnetic layer is positioned at least above or at least blow the impedance adding circuit. The circuit board with this configuration reduces power supply noise to a noticeable degree.