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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 13, 2018
Filed:
Aug. 04, 2016
Globalfoundries Inc., Grand Cayman, KY;
Himani Suhag Kamineni, Mechanicville, NY (US);
Vimal Kumar Kamineni, Mechanicville, NY (US);
Daniel Smith, Ballston Spa, NY (US);
Maxwell Lippitt, Clifton Park, NY (US);
GLOBALFOUNDRIES Inc., Grand Cayman, KY;
Abstract
One illustrative method disclosed includes, among other things, forming a semiconductor device above a semiconducting substrate, forming a device level contact to the semiconductor device and, after forming the device level contact, performing at least one common process operation so as to form a through-substrate-via (TSV) in a trench in the substrate, a TSV contact structure that is conductively coupled to the TSV and a conductive metallization element that is conductively coupled to the device level contact.