Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Comp. Ltd.

Jung-Chih Hu

Wen-Chih Chiou

Weng-Jin Wu

Ku-Feng Yang

Chen-Hua Douglas Yu

Hung-Jung Tu

A method of forming a semiconductor device is presented. A conductor is embedded within a substrate, wherein the substrate contains a non-conducting material. The backside of the substrate is ground to a thickness wherein at least 1 &#x3bc;m of the non-conducting material remains on the backside covering the conductor embedded within the substrate. Chemical mechanical polishing (CMP) is employed with an undiscerning slurry to the backside of the substrate, thereby planarizing the substrate and exposing the conductive material. A spin wet-etch, with a protective formulation, is employed to remove a thickness y of the non-conducting material from the backside of the substrate, thereby causing the conductive material to uniformly protrude from the backside of the substrate.

Backside process for a substrate

A method of forming integrated circuits includes laminating a patterned film including an opening onto a wafer, wherein a bottom die in the wafer is exposed through the opening. A top die is placed into the opening. The top die fits into the opening with substantially no gap between the patterned film and the top die. The top die is then bonded onto the bottom die, followed by curing the patterned film.

Component stacking using pre-formed adhesive films

A through via process is performed on a semiconductor substrate with a contact plug formed in an interlayer dielectric (ILD), and then a via plug is formed in the ILD layer to extend through a portion of the semiconductor substrate, followed forming an interconnection structure electrically connected with the contact plug and the via plug.

Methods of forming through via

A method for singulating semiconductor wafers is disclosed. A preferred embodiment comprises forming scrub lines on one side of the wafer and filling the scrub lines with a temporary fill material. The wafer is then thinned by removing material from the opposite side of the wafer from the scrub lines, thereby exposing the temporary fill material on the opposite side. The temporary fill material is then removed, and the individual die are removed from the wafer.

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Yangmei, Taiwan

Jung-Chih Hu