Shin-etsu Chemical Co., Ltd.

Kyoko Soga

Satoshi Asai

Hideto Kato

Katsuya Takemura

Michihiro Sugo

Takanobu Takeda

Kazunori Kondo

Hitoshi Maruyama

Hiroyuki Yasuda

Tomoyoshi Furihata

A siloxane polymer comprising polysiloxane, silphenylene, isocyanuric acid, and polyether skeletons in a backbone and having an epoxy group in a side chain is provided. A photosensitive resin composition comprising the siloxane polymer and a photoacid generator is coated to form a film which can be patterned using radiation of widely varying wavelength. The patterned film has high transparency and light resistance.

Siloxane polymer containing isocyanuric acid and polyether skeletons, photosensitive resin composition, pattern forming process, and fabrication of opto-semiconductor device

A polymer comprising polysiloxane, silphenylene, isocyanuric acid, and norbornene skeletons in a backbone and having an epoxy group in a side chain is provided. A photosensitive resin composition comprising the polymer and a photoacid generator is coated to form a film which can be patterned using radiation of widely varying wavelength. The patterned film has high transparency, light resistance, and heat resistance.

Polysiloxane skeleton polymer, photosensitive resin composition, pattern forming process, and fabrication of opto-semiconductor device

To provide a laminate which enables pattern formation with excellent opening shape even in the case where a chemically amplified negative type resist material is used, and a pattern forming method in which the laminate is used. The laminate includes a chemically amplified negative type resist layer, and a basic resin coat layer thereon that contains 0.001 to 10% by weight of a basic compound having a molecular weight of up to 10,000.

Laminate and pattern forming method

A film material includes a support film having a transmittance of at least 60% with respect to light of wavelength 300-450 nm, and a resin layer containing 0.001-10 wt % of a basic compound with a molecular weight of up to 10,000, and having a thickness of 1-100 &#x3bc;m. A pattern is formed by attaching the resin layer in the film material to a chemically amplified negative resist layer on a wafer, exposing, baking, and developing the resist layer. The profile of openings in the pattern is improved.

Film material and pattern forming process

A method for manufacturing a semiconductor apparatus, including preparing a first substrate provided with a pad optionally having a plug and a second substrate or device provided with a plug, forming a solder ball on at least one of the pad or plug of first substrate and the plug of second substrate or device, covering at least one of a pad-forming surface of first substrate and a plug-forming surface of second substrate or device with a photosensitive insulating layer, forming an opening on the pad or plug of the substrate or device that has been covered with photosensitive insulating layer by lithography, pressure-bonding the second substrate or device's plug to the pad or plug of first substrate with the solder ball through the opening, electrically connecting pad or plug of first substrate to second substrate or device's plug by baking, and curing photosensitive insulating layer by baking.

Method for manufacturing semiconductor apparatus, method for manufacturing flip-chip type semiconductor apparatus, semiconductor apparatus, and flip-chip type semiconductor apparatus

A semiconductor apparatus includes a semiconductor device, on-semiconductor-device metal pad and metal interconnect each electrically connected to the semiconductor device, a through electrode and a solder bump each electrically connected to the metal interconnect, a first insulating layer on which the semiconductor device is placed, a second insulating layer formed on the semiconductor device, a third insulating layer formed on the second layer. The metal interconnect is electrically connected to the semiconductor device via the on-semiconductor-device metal pad at an upper surface of the second layer, penetrates the second layer from its upper surface, and is electrically connected to the through electrode at an lower surface of the second layer, and an under-semiconductor-device metal interconnect is between the first layer and the semiconductor device, and the under-semiconductor-device metal interconnect is electrically connected to the metal interconnect at the lower surface of the second layer.

Semiconductor apparatus, stacked semiconductor apparatus, encapsulated stacked-semiconductor apparatus, and method for manufacturing the same

A semiconductor apparatus including a semiconductor device, an on-semiconductor-device metal pad and a metal interconnect each electrically connected to the semiconductor device, a through electrode and a solder bump each electrically connected to the metal interconnect, a first insulating layer on which the semiconductor device is placed, a second insulating layer formed on the semiconductor device, a third insulating layer formed on the second insulating layer, wherein the metal interconnect is electrically connected to the semiconductor device via the on-semiconductor-device metal pad at an upper surface of the second insulating layer, and the metal interconnect penetrates the second insulating layer from its upper surface and is electrically connected to the through electrode at an lower surface of the second insulating layer. This semiconductor apparatus can be easily placed on a circuit board and stacked, and can reduce its warpage even with dense metal interconnects.

Semiconductor apparatus, stacked semiconductor apparatus and encapsulated stacked-semiconductor apparatus each having photo-curable resin layer

The present invention is a photo-curable resin composition containing (A) a silicone polymer compound having repeating units shown by the formulae (1) and (2), (B) a photosensitive acid generator capable of generating an acid by decomposition with light having a wavelength of 190 to 500 nm, (C) one or more compounds selected from an amino condensate modified with formaldehyde or formaldehyde-alcohol, a phenol compound having on average two or more methylol groups or alkoxymethylol groups per molecule, and a polyhydric phenol compound whose phenolic hydroxyl group is substituted with a glycidoxy group, and (D) one or more compounds selected from polyhydric phenols having 3 or more hydroxyl groups. As a result, there is provided a photo-curable resin composition that can facilitate thick and fine patterning when the composition is used in patterning. 

Photo-curable resin composition and photo-curable dry film using the same

The purpose of the present invention is to provide an adhesive composition using a silicone polymer compound, which does not require exposure, baking and development processes for the production, thereby making the production cost low and making the productivity high, which has good characteristics such as good adhesiveness, good hermetic sealing properties after thermal curing and low moisture absorption that are required for adhesives, which provides a cured film having high reliabilities such as high heat resistance and high light resistance, and which is capable of suppressing warping of a bonded substrate after back grinding that is necessary in the three-dimensional mounting production. A silicone adhesive composition which contains: (A) an organopolysiloxane containing a non-aromatic saturated monovalent hydrocarbon group and an alkenyl group; (B) an organohydrogenpolysiloxane containing two or more SiH groups in each molecule in such an amount that the molar ratio of the SiH groups in the component (B) is 0.5-10 relative to the alkenyl groups in the component (A); and (C) an effective amount of a platinum-based catalyst.

Silicone adhesive composition and solid-state imaging device

The present invention is a semiconductor apparatus including a semiconductor device, an on-semiconductor-device metal pad and a metal interconnect each electrically connected to the semiconductor device, a through electrode and a solder bump each electrically connected to the metal interconnect, a first photosensitive insulating layer formed on the semiconductor device, and a second photosensitive insulating layer formed on the first photosensitive insulating layer, in which the first and second photosensitive insulating layers are composed of a photo-curable resin composition containing a silicone polymer compound having an epoxy group-containing repeating unit shown by formula (1) and a phenolic hydroxyl group-containing repeating unit shown by formula (2), a photosensitive acid generator, a solvent, and crosslinking agents. There can be provided a semiconductor apparatus that can be easily placed on a circuit board and stacked by forming a fine electrode on the semiconductor device and providing a through electrode outside the semiconductor device. 

A chemically amplified negative resist composition comprising a silicone structure-bearing polymer forms a film which can be readily patterned. The patterned film is tightly adherent to various substrates and suited as protective film on electric/electronic parts because of improved alkali resistance and reliability.

Chemically amplified negative resist composition, photo-curable dry film, making method, patterning process, and electric/electronic part-protecting film

A photo-curable resin composition comprising an epoxy-containing polymer, a photoacid generator in the form of an onium salt having tetrakis(pentafluorophenyl)borate anion, a solvent, and optionally an epoxy resin crosslinker forms a coating which serves as a protective film for the protection of electric/electronic parts.

Photo-curable resin composition, photo-curable dry film, patterning process, protective film, and electric/electronic part

An adhesive composition useful in bonding a protective glass with a silicon substrate of a semiconductor device contains (A) an epoxy-containing high-molecular compound and (B) a solvent. The compound (A) has a weight average molecular weight of 3,000 to 500,000 and repeating units represented by the following formula (1): 

Adhesive composition and adhesive dry film

A photocurable composition includes: where Rto Rare each a hydrocarbon group, m is an integer of 1 to 100, a, b, c and d are each 0 or a positive number, such that 0&#x3c;(c+d)/(a+b+c+d)&#x2266;1.0, and X and Y are each the formula (2) or (3), provided that at least one group of the formula (3) is present,  

Photocurable resin composition, dry film thereof, pattern forming method, and electrical/electronic part protective film

A photoresist composition comprising a novolac resin in which 3-27 mol % of the hydroxyl group hydrogens are substituted with 1,2-naphthoquinonediazidosulfonyl groups and an alkali-soluble cellulose whose glucose ring substituent groups are substituted with organic groups at a specific rate is used in microprocessing as a positive photoresist and offers many advantages including uniformity, high sensitivity, high resolution, good pattern shape, heat resistance, film retention, substrate adhesion, shelf stability, and high throughput.

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Kyoko Soga