Semiconductor Components Industries, LLC

Sanyo Semiconductor Co., Ltd.

Sanyo Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd.

Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.

Takahiro Oikawa

Akira Suzuki

Koujiro Kameyama

Katsuyuki Seki

Kojiro Kameyama

Kikuo Okada

The invention prevents a semiconductor device from warping due to heat when it is used. The invention also prevents a formation defect such as peeling of a resist layer used as a plating mask and a formation defect of a front surface electrode. A source pad electrode connected to a source region is formed on a front surface of a semiconductor substrate forming a vertical MOS transistor. A front surface electrode is formed on the source pad electrode by a plating method using a resist layer having openings as a mask. The semiconductor substrate formed with the front surface electrode is thinned by back-grinding. A back surface electrode connected to a drain region is formed on the back surface of the semiconductor substrate. The front surface electrode and the back surface electrode are made of metals having the same coefficients of linear expansion, preferably copper. The front surface electrode and the back surface electrode preferably have the same thicknesses or almost the same thicknesses.

Semiconductor device covered by front electrode layer and back electrode layer

This invention is directed to form a homogeneous film in a via hole formed in a semiconductor device using Bosch process. The via hole that penetrates through a predetermined region in a semiconductor substrate is formed by etching the semiconductor substrate from one of its surface to the other by the Bosch process using a mask layer as a mask. Next, the mask layer is removed. Then, scallops are removed by dry etching to flatten a sidewall of the via hole. Following the above, an insulation film, a barrier layer and the like are formed homogeneously in the via hole.

Manufacturing method of semiconductor device

The invention provides a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device which achieves high reliability and high yield as well as high production efficiency. Back surface grinding (back grinding) is performed to a semiconductor substrate to thin the semiconductor substrate. A damaged layer formed by the back surface grinding is not removed at this time, and a photoresist layer is selectively formed on the back surface of the semiconductor substrate. The semiconductor substrate is then etched using the photoresist layer as a mask to form a via hole. The photoresist layer is then removed with the semiconductor substrate still placed in an etcher used in the etching process subsequently after the formation of the via hole. In this manner, the etching process and the next ashing process are performed sequentially in one apparatus. Then a process of removing the damaged layer on the back surface of the semiconductor substrate and a process of smoothing the sidewall of the via hole are simultaneously performed subsequently after the ashing process in the same apparatus.

Method of forming hole in semiconductor device using mask

The invention is directed to a semiconductor device having a via hole and a method of manufacturing the same that achieve both the prevention of a barrier layer insufficiently covering the via hole and the control of via resistance at the same time. A semiconductor substrate having a pad electrode on its front surface is prepared. The semiconductor substrate is etched from its back surface to its front surface to form a via hole exposing the pad electrode. A first barrier layer is then formed in the via hole by a sputtering method or a PVD method and reverse-sputtering (etching). By this reverse-sputtering, the barrier layer on the bottom of the via hole is removed to expose the pad electrode. A second barrier layer is then formed on the pad electrode exposed in the via hole. The via resistance is controlled by adjusting only the thickness of the second barrier layer.

Semiconductor device and method of manufacturing the same

In a power MOS transistor, for example, a source electrode is formed so as to be commonly connected to a plurality of source regions formed on the front surface. Thus, a current density varies based on in-plane resistance of the source electrode, thereby providing the necessity of increasing the number of wires connecting the sources and a lead. In the invention, an electrode structure includes a copper plating layerformed on a pad electrodeby an electrolytic plating method, and a nickel plating layerand a gold plating layer formed so as to cover the upper and side surfaces of the copper plating layerby an electroless plating method.

Electrode structure and semiconductor device

The invention is directed to enhancement of reliability and a yield of a semiconductor device by a method of manufacturing the semiconductor device with a supporting body without making the process complex. A second insulation film, a semiconductor substrate, a first insulation film, and a passivation film are etched and removed in this order using a resist layer or a protection layer as a mask. By this etching, an adhesive layer is partially exposed in an opening. At this time, a number of semiconductor devices are separated in individual semiconductor dies. Then, as shown in FIG., a solvent (e.g. alcohol or acetone) is supplied to the exposed adhesive layer through the opening to gradually reduce its adhesion and thereby a supporting body is removed from the semiconductor substrate.

Method of manufacturing semiconductor device

The characteristic of the semiconductor device of this invention is that the device has a piercing holeformed in the semiconductor layer to touch a first metal film, a insulating filmformed on the side wall of the piercing hole, a second metal filmdisposed on the first metal filmat the bottom of the piercing holewhere the insulating filmhas not been formed and on the semiconductor layer, a barrier metal filmformed on the insulating filmin the piercing holeand on the first metal film, and a wiring layerformed inside the piercing holethrough the barrier metal film

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Takahiro Oikawa