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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 05, 2020
Filed:
Jan. 05, 2016
Nexperia B.v.;
Zhihao Pan, Hamburg, DE;
Friedrich Hahn, Schenefeld, DE;
Steffen Holland, Hamburg, DE;
Olaf Pfennigstorf, Hamburg, DE;
Jochen Wynants, Hamburg, DE;
Hans-Martin Ritter, Hamburg, DE;
Nexperia B.V., Nijmegan, NL;
Abstract
A semiconductor device and a method of making the same. The device includes a semiconductor substrate provided in a chip-scale package (CSP). The device also includes a plurality of contacts provided on a major surface of the substrate. The device further includes an electrically floating metal layer forming an ohmic contact on a backside of the semiconductor substrate. The device is operable to conduct a current that passes through the substrate from a first of said plurality of contacts to a second of said plurality of contacts via the metal layer on the backside.