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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 23, 2025
Filed:
Jun. 10, 2022
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited, Hsinchu, TW;
Han-Hsiang Huang, Hsinchu, TW;
Yen-Hao Chen, Taichung, TW;
Chien-Sheng Chen, Hsinchu, TW;
Shin-Puu Jeng, Po-Shan Village, TW;
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited, Hsinchu, TW;
Abstract
A bonded assembly including a first structure and a second structure is provided. The first structure includes first metallic connection structures surrounded of which a passivation dielectric layer includes openings therein, and first metallic bump structures having a respective first horizontal bonding surface segment that is vertically recessed from a first horizontal plane including a distal horizontal surface of the passivation dielectric layer. The second structure includes second metallic bump structures having a respective second horizontal bonding surface segment that protrudes toward the first structure. The first metallic bump structures is bonded to the second metallic bump structures through solder material portions.