Abstract: A dielectric layer is formed over a substrate, an anti-reflective layer is formed over the dielectric layer, and a first hardmask is formed over the anti-reflective layer. A via opening and a trench opening are formed within the dielectric layer using the anti-reflective layer and the first hardmask as masking materials. After the formation of the trench opening and the via opening, the first hardmask is removed. An interconnect is formed within the openings, and the interconnect has a via with a profile angle of between about 70° and about 80° and a depth ratio of between about 65% and about 70%.

Abstract: A camera includes a lens barrel, a holder, a filter disposed in the holder, a circuit board having an aperture, a reinforcing member including a first region corresponding to the aperture and a second region in which the circuit board is disposed, and an image sensor disposed in the first region of the reinforcing member. The first region of the reinforcing member includes a protruding part protruding farther than the second region of the reinforcing member. The image sensor is disposed on the upper surface of the protruding part.

Abstract: A camera module and its photosensitive assembly and manufacturing method thereof are provided. The photosensitive assembly includes a photosensitive element, a window circuit board and a packaging body integrally packaged the photosensitive element and the window circuit board to form an integrated body, wherein the window circuit board has at least one window for receiving the photosensitive element therein.

Abstract: An image sensor includes a pixel portion in which a plurality of unit pixels each having one micro lens and a plurality of photoelectric conversion portions are arrayed in a matrix, a signal readout portion that reads out signals accumulated in the photoelectric conversion portions and converts the read signals to digital signals, a signal processor that processes signals read out by the signal readout portion and has an image capture signal processor that performs signal processing for generating a captured image on signals read out by the signal readout portion and a focus detection signal processor that performs signal processing for focus detection on signals read out by the signal readout portion, and an output portion that outputs signals processed by the signal processor.

Abstract: An image sensing device includes an interconnect layer and a number of grid array contacts arranged on a bottom side of the interconnect layer. An image sensor integrated circuit (IC) is carried by the interconnect layer and has an image sensing surface. A number of electrical connections are coupled between the image sensor IC and an upper side of the interconnect layer. A transparent plate overlies the image sensing surface of the image sensor IC. A cap is carried by the interconnect layer and has an opening overlying transparent plate and the image sensing surface. The cap has an upper wall spaced above the interconnect layer and the image sensor IC to define an internal cavity and the cap defines an air vent coupled to the internal cavity.

Abstract: An electronic component mounting board includes an inorganic substrate, a wiring board, and a bond. The inorganic substrate includes an electronic component mounting portion in a central area of an upper surface of the inorganic substrate in which an electronic component is mountable. The wiring board is a frame surrounding the electronic component mounting portion on the upper surface of the inorganic substrate. The bond is located between the inorganic substrate and the wiring board. The inorganic substrate includes a downward bend outward from a bond area including the bond.

Abstract: An image sensing device includes an interconnect layer and a number of grid array contacts arranged on a bottom side of the interconnect layer. An image sensor integrated circuit (IC) is carried by the interconnect layer and has an image sensing surface. A number of electrical connections are coupled between the image sensor IC and an upper side of the interconnect layer. A transparent plate overlies the image sensing surface of the image sensor IC. A cap is carried by the interconnect layer and has an opening overlying transparent plate and the image sensing surface. The cap has an upper wall spaced above the interconnect layer and the image sensor IC to define an internal cavity and the cap defines an air vent coupled to the internal cavity.

Abstract: An optical part includes a lens and a holder having the lens fixed thereto. The holder is a cylindrical member including a front surface, a back surface, an outer peripheral surface, and an inner peripheral surface. The back surface contacts the lens, and part of the inner peripheral surface penetrates the lens.

Abstract: A lead frame for a packaged integrated circuit (IC) device has alternating first and second leads that protrude from a package body in respective first and second planes, where the second plane is parallel to and below the first plane. The first leads are formed into Gull Wing shaped leads and the second leads are formed into J-shaped leads. Inner lead portions of the first and second leads are maintained in the first plane with a tape. An inner lead portion of each of the second leads includes a deformation area that facilitates maintaining the tape in contact with the inner lead area of the second leads, even when a mold tool presses down on an outer lead side of the second leads to place the outer lead ends of the second leads in the second plane.

Abstract: An optical element module includes an optical modulation element having first and second optical modulator units, a polarization combining means for combining two modulated lights which are emitted from the first and second optical modulator units, by making planes of polarization orthogonally cross each other; a housing which houses the optical modulation element and the polarization combining means; and a lens holder which holds a collimating lens which is disposed between the polarization combining means and an optical fiber, with the lens holder further holding the optical fiber. The optical element module is configured by joining the housing and the lens holder together by welding. In the lens holder, an outer diameter of a welding place is smaller than an outer diameter of a part which holds the collimating lens.

Abstract: A light emitting device includes a light emitting element, a wire connected to the light emitting element, and a substrate supporting the light emitting element. The substrate is formed with a first recess and a second recess that are open in a common surface of the substrate. The first recess includes a first bottom surface and a first side surface connected to the first bottom surface, and the light emitting element is disposed on the first bottom surface. The second recess includes a second bottom surface and a second side surface connected to the second bottom surface, and the wire is bonded to the second bottom surface. Both of the first side surface and the second side surface reach the common surface. The first side surface is connected to both of the second bottom surface and the second side surface. The opening area of the first recess is larger than the opening area of the second recess.

Abstract: A semiconductor element package includes a base body, a frame member, and a terminal member. The frame member is provided on a main surface of the base body. A notch is formed on the base body side of this frame member. The notch is a gap between the one main surface of the base body and the frame member. The terminal member is provided so as to cover the notch as the gap. The terminal member includes a first dielectric layer, a plurality of signal wiring conductors and a plurality of coplanar ground conductor layers that are provided on one surface of the first dielectric layer, and a second dielectric layer. The first dielectric layer has a hole provided open in a region of the one surface between a first wiring conductor and a second wiring conductor.

Abstract: An optical component includes a support member having a through-hole, a second light-transmissive member disposed inside the through-hole, and having a light incidence face, a light emission face, and an outer peripheral side surface, and at least one functional film selected from a group consisting of a short pass filter, a long pass filter, and a heat dissipation member and disposed on a surface of the second light-transmissive member.

Abstract: An alignment assembly for disposition in an insert for an expanded beam connector, said alignment assembly comprising: (a) at least one cylindrical sleeve having an inner first diameter, and an outer diameter configured to be received in said insert of said connector; (b) a lens disposed in said sleeve, and having a round periphery with a second diameter larger than said first diameter; and (c) wherein said sleeve is configured to at least partially accept a ferrule having a round periphery with a third diameter essentially the same as the second diameter, said ferrule comprising a fiber for optically coupling with said lens.

Abstract: A circuit board is described. The circuit board comprises an electrically insulating diamond material having a surface. The electrically insulating diamond material has at least one recess extending into only a portion of a thickness of the electrically insulating diamond material from the surface of the electrically insulating diamond material. The circuit board also comprises an electrically conductive material located at least partially within the recess.

Abstract: A light emitting device includes a body having a cavity and a step difference structure around the cavity, a plurality of electrodes in the cavity, a light emitting chip in the cavity, a transparent window having an outer portion provided on the step difference structure to cover the cavity, and an adhesive member between the transparent window and the body. The adhesive member includes a first adhesive member between an outer bottom surface of the transparent window and a bottom of the step difference structure and a second adhesive member between the outer portion of the transparent window and the body.

Abstract: An optical component includes a support member having a through-hole, a second light-transmissive member disposed inside the through-hole, and having a light incidence face, a light emission face, and an outer peripheral side surface, and at least one functional film selected from a group consisting of a short pass filter, a long pass filter, and a heat dissipation member and disposed on a surface of the second light-transmissive member.

Abstract: An optical communication device, reception apparatus, transmission apparatus and transmission and reception system are disclosed. The optical communication device includes a drive circuit substrate. A first through via extends through the drive circuit substrate and is configured to electrically connect an optical element disposed on a first surface side of the drive circuit substrate to a drive circuit disposed on a second surface side of the drive circuit substrate. A positioning element is attached to an interposer substrate and is configured to align optical axes of a first lens that is attached to a lens substrate and that faces a second lens that is disposed on the first surface side of the drive circuit substrate. A second through via extends through the interposer substrate and electrically connects the drive circuit to a signal processing circuit disposed on a signal processing substrate positioned above the interposer substrate.

Abstract: An optical component includes a support member having a through-hole, a second light-transmissive member disposed inside the through-hole, and having a light incidence face, a light emission face and an outer peripheral side surface, and an outer peripheral side surface, a fused first light-transmissive member formed between an inner wall of the through-hole and the outer peripheral side surface of the second light-transmissive member.

Abstract: An electronic device includes a substrate plate with a traversing passage. An electronic component, mounted to the substrate plate, includes an integrated circuit chip with an optical sensor and an opaque protective plate mounted above the sensor. The electronic component is mounted with the chip facing the substrate plate such that the protective plate is engaged with the traversing passage. Electrical connection elements extend between the chip and the substrate plate. An internal block of encapsulation material extends into the traversing passage of the substrate plate between the chip and the substrate plate so as to embed the electrical connection elements.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a photoelectric composite substrate, includes: aligning and fixing an optical element having a solder terminal to an optical waveguide for forming a path of an optical signal on a printed circuit board; mounting the optical waveguide, to which the optical element is fixed, on the printed circuit board; and welding the solder terminal to an electrode of a package installed on the printed circuit board or an electrode of the printed circuit board.

Abstract: Embodiments include a light emitting device package. The light emitting device package comprises a housing including a cavity; a light emitting device positioned in the cavity; a lead frame including a first section electrically connected to the light emitting device in the cavity, a second section, which penetrates the housing, extending from the first section and a third section, which is exposed to outside air, extending from the second section; and a metal layer positioned on an area defined by a distance which is distant from the housing in the second section of the lead frame.

Abstract: An image sensor package and image sensor chip capable of being slenderized while enhancing the reliability with respect to physical impact are provided. The image sensor package includes an image sensor chip provided with a pixel domain at a central portion of an upper surface thereof, a substrate disposed at an upper side of the image sensor chip so as to be flip-chip bonded with respect to the image sensor chip, provided with a hole formed at a position corresponding to the pixel domain, and formed of organic material, a printed circuit board at which the substrate provided with the image sensor chip bonded thereto is mounted, and a solder ball configured to electrically connect the substrate to the printed circuit board.

Abstract: A moisture barrier, device or product having a moisture barrier or a method of fabricating a moisture barrier having at least a polymer layer, and interfacial layer, and a barrier layer. The polymer layer may be fabricated from any suitable polymer including, but not limited to, fluoropolymers such as polyethylene terephthalate (PET) or polyethylene naphthalate (PEN), or ethylene-tetrafluoroethylene (ETFE). The interfacial layer may be formed by atomic layer deposition (ALD). In embodiments featuring an ALD interfacial layer, the deposited interfacial substance may be, but is not limited to, Al2O3, AlSiOx, TiO2, and an Al2O3/TiO2 laminate. The barrier layer associated with the interfacial layer may be deposited by plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD). The barrier layer may be a SiOxNy film.

Abstract: A pressure sensor system comprising a pressure sensor chip is disclosed. The pressure sensor chip comprises a sensing side where pressure sensing is performed and one or more interconnections where electrical connections are made at the other side of the chip. The pressure sensor comprising an integrated circuit (1) forming a substrate, the substrate comprising a membrane shaped portion adapted for being exposed to the pressure, the integrated circuit (1) comprising both pressure signal sensing components and pressure signal processing components.

Abstract: Bias lines are provided for respective columns of pixels, and of a plurality of bias lines, bias lines provided at an interval of 10 mm are connected to a bias power source through a current detector. The remaining bias lines are connected directly to the bias power source without passing through the current detector. In each pixel, if electric charge is generated by a radiation detection element in accordance with the dose of irradiated radiation, a current flows in the bias line in accordance with the generated electric charge. The current detector detects the current flowing in the bias line, and a control unit detects, as the timing of starting irradiation of a radiation, when the detected current (current value) is equal to or greater than a threshold value, and starts radiographing of a radiological image.

Abstract: A moisture trapping filler composition may include a filler material combined with a desiccant material.

Abstract: In at least one embodiment of the component (10) the latter comprises a first substrate (1) and a second substrate (2), at least one radiation-emitting or radiation-receiving element (3) being arranged on the first substrate (1), which element contains at least one organic material. The first substrate (1) and the second substrate (2) are arranged relative to one another such that the element (3) is located between the first substrate (1) and second substrate (2). The first substrate (1) and second substrate (2) are bonded together mechanically by means of a bonding agent (4) arranged in a sheet between the first substrate (1) and the second substrate (2), which bonding agent contains a glass and surrounds the element (3) with the organic material in the manner of a frame.

Abstract: A semiconductor package includes a transmissive support plate and includes at least one elongate hole. An integrated circuit semiconductor device is mounted on a rear face of the support plate. The semiconductor device includes first and second optical elements oriented towards the rear face of the support plate, where the first and second optical elements are placed on either side of the elongate hole. An encapsulation material made of an opaque material encapsulates the semiconductor device and fills the elongate hole so as to form an optical insulation partition between the first and second optical elements. A cavity is left, however, between each optical element and a rear face of the support plate.

Abstract: Materials, and methods that use such materials, that are useful for forming chip stacks, chip and wafer bonding and wafer thinning are disclosed. Such methods and materials provide strong bonds while also being readily removed with little or no residues.

Abstract: In a semiconductor device including a semiconductor element and a wiring substrate on which the semiconductor element is mounted. The wiring substrate includes an insulating substrate and conductive wiring formed in the insulating substrate and electrically connected to the semiconductor element. The conductive wiring includes an underlying layer formed on the insulating substrate, a main conductive layer formed on the underlying layer, and an electrode layer covering side surfaces of the underlying layer and side surfaces and an upper surface of the main conductive layer. The underlying layer includes an adhesion layer being formed in contact with the insulating substrate and containing an alloy of Ti.

Abstract: A light-emitting diode (“LED”) device has an LED chip attached to a substrate. The terminals of the LED chip are electrically coupled to leads of the LED device. Elastomeric encapsulant within a receptacle of the LED device surrounds the LED chip. A second encapsulant is disposed within an aperture of the receptacle on the elastomeric encapsulant.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing solid-state imaging device for collectively manufacturing a multiplicity of solid-state imaging devices at a wafer level, the method including: a step of reducing the thickness of a cover glass wafer (10) after providing a mask material (12) to the cover glass wafer (10) including frame-shaped spacers (5); a step of releasing the mask material (12) and laminating a first support wafer (14) through a lamination member (16); a step of positioning and bonding a silicon wafer (18) and the cover glass wafer (10), the silicon wafer (18) including a second support wafer (22) laminated on the back side through a lamination member (24); a step of dicing the cover glass wafer (10) into cover glasses (4) by a whetstone (26); and a step of dicing the silicon wafer (18) by a whetstone (28).

Abstract: This invention relates to a method for producing solar cells, and photovoltaic panels thereof. The method for producing solar panels comprises employing a number of semiconductor wafers and/or semiconductor sheets of films prefabricated to prepare them for back side metallization, which are placed and attached adjacent to each other and with their front side facing downwards onto the back side of the front glass, before subsequent processing that includes depositing at least one metal layer covering the entire front glass including the back side of the attached wafers/sheets of films. The metallic layer is then patterned/divided into electrically isolated contacts for each solar cell and into interconnections between adjacent solar cells.

Abstract: Embodiments include but are not limited to apparatuses and systems including semiconductor packages, e.g. memory packages, having an interposer including at least one topological feature, such as a depression in a surface of the interposer, a die coupled to the surface of the interposer, and an encapsulant material formed over the die and the interposer, and disposed in the at least one depression to resist movement of the encapsulant material relative to the interposer. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.

Abstract: Active or functional additives are embedded into surfaces of host materials for use as components in a variety of electronic or optoelectronic devices, including solar devices, smart windows, displays, and so forth. Resulting surface-embedded device components provide improved performance, as well as cost benefits arising from their compositions and manufacturing processes.

Abstract: The present invention generally relates to a method for manufacturing an improved solar cell module, more particularly to a method for manufacturing the improved solar cell module that may not happen problems of power leakage and short circuit and save the cost to manufacturing.

Abstract: A fabrication method of a package structure having at least an MEMS element is provided, including: preparing a wafer having electrical connection pads and the at least an MEMS element; disposing lids for covering the at least an MEMS element, the lids having a metal layer formed thereon; electrically connecting the electrical connection pads and the metal layer with bonding wires; forming an encapsulant for covering the lids, bonding wires, electrical connection pads and metal layer; removing portions of the encapsulant to separate the bonding wires each into first and second sub-bonding wires, wherein top ends of the first and second sub-bonding wires are exposed, the first sub-bonding wires electrically connecting to the electrical connection pads, and the second sub-bonding wires electrically connecting to the metal layer; forming metallic traces on the encapsulant for electrically connecting to the first sub-bonding wires; forming bumps on the metallic traces; and performing a singulation process.

Abstract: A semiconductor arrangement including at least one lead arrangement with a top and a bottom opposite the top; at least one solder resist layer which partially covers the top and the bottom, at least sub-zones of the top and the bottom, which are not covered by the solder resist layer, forming electrical base members; an optoelectronic semiconductor element, which is mounted on at least one of the base members on the top of the lead arrangement and is connected electrically conductively therewith, and an encapsulant applied at least to the top of the lead arrangement, the encapsulant covering up the semiconductor element and lying at least partially against the solder resist layer, wherein the base members are bordered all round by the solder resist layer.

Abstract: A method of making image sensor devices may include forming a sensor layer including image sensor ICs in an encapsulation material, bonding a spacer layer to the sensor layer, the spacer layer having openings therein and aligned with the image sensor ICs, and bonding a lens layer to the spacer layer, the lens layer including lens in an encapsulation material and aligned with the openings and the image sensor ICs. The method may also include dicing the bonded-together sensor, spacer and lens layers to provide the image sensor devices. Helpfully, the method may use WLP to enhance production.

Abstract: A photoelectric conversion module includes: a substrate having a light transmitting property and having a mounting surface; a photoelectric conversion element mounted on the mounting surface of the substrate; a cover member fixed to the substrate via a solder layer constituted by solder and forming, cooperatively with the substrate, an airtight chamber housing the photoelectric conversion element; and a solder adsorbing film provided near an area fixed to the substrate by the solder layer, in a surface, of the cover member, facing the mounting surface, the solder having an adhesive property to the solder adsorbing film.

Abstract: Devices for converting light into electric current are provided. A representative device has an encasing structure having at least one portion transparent. The encasing structure is configured to pass light energy into an interior of the encasing structure. The device further has a photovoltaic device positioned within the interior of the encasing structure. The photovoltaic device is positioned to receive light energy. The photovoltaic device is operable to transform the light energy into electric current. The device further has a protective space material, disposed between the encasing structure and the photovoltaic device. The protective space material is operable to transmit the light energy. The protective space material is a non-solid material having a physical property such as a viscosity of less than 1×106 cP and/or a thermal coefficient of expansion of greater than 500×10?6/° C.

Abstract: A method for processing a thin film photovoltaic module. The method includes providing a plurality of substrates, each of the substrates having a first electrode layer and an overlying absorber layer composed of copper indium gallium selenide (CIGS) or copper indium selenide (CIS) material. The absorber material comprises a plurality of sodium bearing species. The method maintains the plurality of substrates in a controlled environment after formation of at least the absorber layer through one or more processes up to a lamination process. The controlled environment has a relative humidity of less than 10% and a temperature ranging from about 10 degrees Celsius to about 40 degrees Celsius. The method subjects the plurality of substrates to a liquid comprising water at a temperature from about 10 degrees Celsius to about 80 degrees Celsius to process the plurality of substrates after formation of the absorber layer.

Abstract: Thin film photovoltaic devices that include at least one lead bar extending through a connection aperture defined in the encapsulation substrate are provided. The photovoltaic device can include: a transparent substrate; a plurality of photovoltaic cells on the transparent substrate; a first conductive ribbon electrically connected to a first photovoltaic cell; an encapsulation substrate laminated to the transparent substrate such that the plurality of photovoltaic cells and the conductive ribbon are positioned between the transparent substrate and the encapsulation substrate; and, a first lead bar extending through a first connection aperture defined in the encapsulation substrate. The first lead bar is electrically connected to the first conductive ribbon. For example, a meltable conductive material can be connected to the first lead bar and to the first conductive ribbon to establish an electrical connection therebetween.

Abstract: Thin film photovoltaic devices that include a direct connection to at least one lead bar extending through a connection aperture defined in the encapsulation substrate to electrically connect to an underlying conductive ribbon are provided. The photovoltaic device can include: a transparent substrate; a plurality of photovoltaic cells; a conductive ribbon electrically connected to a photovoltaic cell; an encapsulation substrate laminated to the transparent substrate such that the plurality of photovoltaic cells and the conductive ribbon are positioned between the transparent substrate and the encapsulation substrate; and a lead bar extending through a connection aperture defined in the encapsulation substrate and electrically connected to the conductive ribbon. The lead bar can define a lead tab that establishes a mechanical connection having a biasing force between the lead bar and the conductive ribbon.

Abstract: A method of preparing a surface for deposition of a thin film thereon, wherein the surface including a plurality of protrusions extending therefrom and having shadowed regions, includes locally treating at least one of the protrusions.

Abstract: A method of fabricating a solar cell includes forming an emitter layer of a second conductive type on a front surface and a back surface of a substrate of a first conductive type opposite to the second conductive type, forming an anti-reflection layer on the front surface of the substrate, partially removing the anti-reflection layer and the emitter layer to form an isolation groove dividing the emitter layer into a plurality of regions, removing a portion of the emitter layer formed on the back surface of the substrate, and forming a passivation layer covering the isolation groove and the back surface of the substrate.

Abstract: An object is to prevent a reduction of definition (or resolution) (a peripheral blur) caused when reflected light enters a photoelectric conversion element arranged at a periphery of a photoelectric conversion element arranged at a predetermined address. A semiconductor device is manufactured through the steps of: forming a structure having a first light-transmitting substrate, a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements over the first light-transmitting substrate, a second light-transmitting substrate provided so as to face the plurality of photoelectric conversion elements, a sealant arranged so as to bond the first light-transmitting substrate and the second light-transmitting substrate and surround the plurality of photoelectric conversion elements; and thinning the first light-transmitting substrate by wet etching.

Abstract: The invention provides an integrated circuit package and method of fabrication thereof. The integrated circuit package comprises an integrated circuit chip having a photosensitive device thereon; a bonding pad formed on an upper surface of the integrated circuit chip and electrically connected to the photosensitive device; a barrier formed between the bonding pad and the photosensitive device; and a conductive layer formed on a sidewall of the integrated circuit chip and electrically connected to the bonding pad. The barrier layer blocks overflow of the adhesive layer into a region, on which the photosensitive device is formed, to improve yield for fabricating the integrated circuit package.

Abstract: A thin film solar cell module and a method of manufacturing a thin film solar cell module. A thin film solar cell module includes: a thin film solar cell including a first substrate, and a first electrode layer on the first substrate; a second substrate covering the thin film solar cell; and a sealing tape between the thin film solar cell and the second substrate, the sealing tape including a first adhesive layer having a conductivity and being attached to an edge portion of the first electrode layer; a metal layer on the first adhesive layer; and a second adhesive layer on the metal layer and attached to the second substrate.