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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 14, 2014
Filed:
Feb. 05, 2010
Mukta G Farooq, Hopewell Junction, NY (US);
John a Griesemer, Hopewell Junction, NY (US);
William F Landers, Hopewell Junction, NY (US);
Ian D Melville, Hopewell Junction, NY (US);
Thomas M Shaw, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
Huilong Zhu, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
Mukta G Farooq, Hopewell Junction, NY (US);
John A Griesemer, Hopewell Junction, NY (US);
William F Landers, Hopewell Junction, NY (US);
Ian D Melville, Hopewell Junction, NY (US);
Thomas M Shaw, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
Huilong Zhu, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A structure to prevent propagation of a crack into the active region of a 3D integrated circuit, such as a crack initiated by a flaw at the periphery of a thinned substrate layer or a bonding layer, and methods of forming the same is disclosed.