Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Comp. Ltd.

Raydium Semiconductor Corporation

Au Optronics Corporation

Ching-Jung Yang

Hsien-Wei Chen

Yu-Chia Lai

Chang-Pin Huang

Tung-Liang Shao

Hsien-Ming Tu

Ming-Fa Chen

Jie Chen

Hao-Yi Tsai

Shih-Wei Liang

Ying-Ju Chen

Chia-Wei Tu

Chen-Hua Douglas Yu

Mirng-Ji Lii

Chung-Shi Liu

Hung-Yi Kuo

Sheng-An Kuo

Michael Shou-Ming Tong

Sung-Feng Yeh

Tsung-Yuan Yu

Tzuan-Horng Liu

Yen-Ping Wang

Yu-Wen Liu

Chung-Ying Yang

Chao-Wen Shih

Yu-Cheng Chen

Hsin-Yu Pan

Ming-Yen Chiu

Kuo-Yu Huang

Kun-Tai Wu

Ke-Chih Chang

Tsung-Ju Yu

A semiconductor structure includes a first die and a plurality of first dummy pads. The first die includes a first interconnect structure and a first active pad electrically connected to the first interconnect structure. The first dummy pads laterally surround the first active pad and are electrically floating.

Semiconductor structure

Packages for semiconductor devices, packaged semiconductor devices, and methods of packaging semiconductor devices are disclosed. In some embodiments, a package for a semiconductor device includes an integrated circuit die mounting region, a molding material around the integrated circuit die mounting region, and an interconnect structure over the molding material and the integrated circuit die mounting region. The interconnect structure has contact pads, and connectors are coupled to the contact pads. Two or more of the connectors have an alignment feature formed thereon.

Packages for semiconductor devices, packaged semiconductor devices, and methods of packaging semiconductor devices

A semiconductor structure includes a stacked die including a lower portion and an upper portion stacked upon the lower portion. The lower portion includes a first patterned conductive pad, a first conductive connector passing through the first patterned conductive pad, a first patterned dielectric layer covering the first patterned conductive pad and laterally isolating the first conductive connector from the first patterned conductive pad. The upper portion includes a second conductive connector bonded to the first conductive connector, and a second patterned dielectric layer bonded to the first patterned dielectric layer.

Semiconductor structure and manufacturing method thereof

A method of manufacturing a die stack structure includes the following steps. A first bonding structure is formed over a front side of a first die. The method of forming the first bonding structure includes the following steps. A first bonding dielectric material is formed on a first test pad of the first die. A first blocking layer is formed over the first bonding dielectric material. A second bonding dielectric material and a first dummy metal layer are formed over the first blocking layer. The first dummy metal layer and the first test pad are electrically isolated from each other by the first blocking layer. Thereafter, a second bonding structure is formed over a front side of a second die. The first die and the second die are bonded through the first bonding structure and the second bonding structure.

Method of manufacturing die stack structure

The present disclosure provides a method of processing a semiconductor structure. The method includes: placing a first semiconductor structure inside a semiconductor processing apparatus; supplying a solution, wherein the solution is directed toward a surface of the first semiconductor structure, and the solution includes a solvent and a resist; rotating the first semiconductor structure to spread the solution over the surface of the first semiconductor structure; forming a resist layer on the surface of the first semiconductor structure using the resist in the solution; and removing a portion of the solvent from the solution by an exhaust fan disposed adjacent to a periphery of the first semiconductor structure.

Conductive bump of a semiconductor device and fabricating method thereof cross reference to related applications

A package structure includes first and second dies, an insulation structure, a through via, a dielectric layer and a redistribution layer. The second die electrically bonded to the first die includes a through substrate via. The insulation structure is disposed on the first die and laterally surrounds the second die. The through via penetrates through the insulation structure to electrically connect to the first die. The dielectric layer is disposed on the second die and the insulation structure. The redistribution layer is embedded in the dielectric layer and electrically connected to the through via. The redistribution layer includes a first barrier layer and a conductive layer on the first barrier layer. The through substrate via is electrically connected to the redistribution layer, and the conductive layer is in contact with a conductive post of the through via and separated from the through substrate via by the first barrier layer therebetween.

Semiconductor package with shared barrier layer in redistribution and via and method of manufacturing the same

Provided is a semiconductor structure including an interconnect structure, disposed over a substrate; a pad structure, disposed over and electrically connected to the interconnect structure, wherein the pad structure comprises a metal pad and a dielectric cap on the metal pad, and the pad structure has a probe mark recessed from a top surface of the dielectric cap into a top surface of the metal pad; a protective layer, conformally covering the top surface of the dielectric cap and the probe mark; and a bonding structure, disposed over the protective layer, wherein the bonding structure comprises: a bonding dielectric layer at least comprising a first bonding dielectric material and a second bonding dielectric material on the first bonding dielectric material; and a first bonding metal layer disposed in the bonding dielectric layer and penetrating through the protective layer and the dielectric cap to contact the metal pad.

Semiconductor structure including interconnection to probe pad with probe mark

A semiconductor structure including a first semiconductor die, a second semiconductor die, a passivation layer, an anti-arcing pattern, and conductive terminals is provided. The second semiconductor die is stacked over the first semiconductor die. The passivation layer covers the second semiconductor die and includes first openings for revealing pads of the second semiconductor die. The anti-arcing pattern is disposed over the passivation layer. The conductive terminals are disposed over and electrically connected to the pads of the second semiconductor die.

Semiconductor structure having an anti-arcing pattern disposed on a passivation layer

Present disclosure provides a semiconductor structure and a method for fabricating a semiconductor structure. The semiconductor structure includes a substrate, a conductive layer in the substrate, a conductive bump over the substrate and electrically coupled to the conductive layer, and a dielectric stack, including a polymer layer laterally surrounding the conductive bump and including a portion spaced from a nearest outer edge of the conductive bump with a gap, wherein a first thickness of the polymer layer in a first region is greater than a second thickness of the polymer layer in a second region adjacent to the first region, a first bottom surface of the polymer layer in the first region is leveled with a second bottom surface of the polymer layer in the second region, and a dielectric layer underneath the polymer layer.

Conductive bump of a semiconductor device and fabricating method thereof

A semiconductor structure includes: a first die, comprising a first interconnect structure and a first active pad electrically connected to the first interconnect structure; a first bonding dielectric layer over the first die; a first active bonding via in the first bonding dielectric layer, electrically connected to the first interconnect structure; and a plurality of first dummy bonding vias in the first bonding dielectric layer, wherein the first dummy bonding vias laterally surround the first active bonding via and are electrically floating.

Methods and apparatus are disclosed for manufacturing metal contacts under ground-up contact pads within a device. A device may comprise a bottom metal layer with a bottom metal contact, a top metal layer with a top metal contact, and a plurality of middle metal layers. Any given metal layer of the plurality of middle metal layers comprises a metal contact, the metal contact is substantially vertically below the top metal contact, substantially vertically above the bottom metal contact, and substantially vertically above a metal contact in any metal layer that is below the given metal layer. The metal contacts may be of various and different shapes. All the metal contacts in the plurality of middle metal layers and the bottom metal contact may be smaller than the top metal contact, therefore occupying less area and saving more area for other functions such as device routing.

Plurality of different size metal layers for a pad structure

Semiconductor structure having an anti-arcing pattern disposed on a passivation layer and a post passivation layer disposed on the anti-arcing pattern

The present disclosure provides a semiconductor structure including a substrate, a first die vertically over the substrate, a second die vertically over the substrate and laterally separated from the first die with a gap, and an insulation material in the gap. The substrate is at least partially overlapped with the gap when viewed from a top view perspective, and a Young's modulus of the substrate is higher than that of the insulation material.

Provided is a semiconductor package structure including a first die having a first bonding structure thereon, a second die having a second bonding structure thereon, a metal circuit structure, and a first protective structure. The second die is bonded to the first die such that a first bonding dielectric layer of the first bonding structure contacts a second bonding dielectric layer of the second bonding structure. The metal circuit structure is disposed over a top surface of the second die. The first protective structure is disposed within the top surface of the second die, and sandwiched between the metal circuit structure and the second die.

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Pingzhen, Taiwan

Ching-Jung Yang