U.S. Philips Corporation

Maria H Van Deurzen

Ronald Dekker

Henricus G Maas

Wilhelmus T Van Den Einden

A method of manufacturing a device whereby a layer structure with semiconductor elements and conductor tracks is formed on a first side of a semiconductor wafer which is provided with a layer of semiconductor material disposed on an insulating layer. Then the semiconductor wafer is fastened with said first side to a support wafer by means of a glue layer, the support wafer being provided with a metallization. Material is then removed from the semiconductor wafer from the other, second side thereof until the insulating layer is exposed. Contact windows are provided in the insulating layer from the first side of the semiconductor wafer before the latter is refastened on the support wafer. These windows are filled with a material which can be removed selectively relative to the insulating layer. The contact windows are opened from the second side of the semiconductor wafer after the latter has been fastened on the support wafer and after the insulating layer has been exposed. Furthermore, openings are formed in the layer structure and in the flue layer at the areas of the contact windows, which openings extend down to the metallization on the support wafer, after which the contact windows and the openings formed are provided with conductive elements.

Method of manufacturing a device, by which method a substrate with

A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device with a substrate (1) provided with a passive element (2), a pattern of conductors (3, 4), and a semiconductor element (5) which is formed in a small slice (6) of semiconductor material. The passive element (2), the pattern of conductors (3, 4), and the semiconductor element (5) are formed at a first side (8) of a wafer of semiconductor material (7), whereupon this wafer is glued with its first side (8) to the substrate (1), and the semiconductor material of the wafer (7) is removed from the second side (22) thereof, except at the area of the semiconductor element (5). A small slice (6) of semiconductor material thus remains in which the semiconductor element (5) has been formed. The wiring may be realized in a simple manner without the introduction of additional and expensive process steps, while the introduction of parasitic capacitances and self-inductances is counteracted.

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Eindhoven, Netherlands

Maria H Van Deurzen