A semiconductor structure includes an alternating stack of insulating layers and composite layers, each of the composite layers includes a plurality of electrically conductive word line strips and a plurality of dielectric isolation structures, and each of the insulating layers has an areal overlap with each electrically conductive word line strip and each dielectric isolation structure within the composite layers within a memory array region in a plan view along a vertical direction, rows of memory openings arranged along the first horizontal direction, where each row of memory openings of the rows of memory openings vertically extends through each insulating layer within the alternating stack and one electrically conductive strip for each of the composite layers, and rows of memory opening fill structures located within the rows of memory openings, where each of the memory opening fill structures includes a vertical stack of memory elements and a vertical semiconductor channel.

A semiconductor storage device of an embodiment includes a substrate, a plurality of first conductive layers, pillar, and a second conductive layer. The plurality of first conductive layers are provided above the substrate, and mutually separated in a first direction. The pillar is provided to penetrate the plurality of the first conductive layers, and includes a first semiconductor layer extending in the first direction. A part of the pillar that intersects with the first conductive layers are functioned as memory cells. The second conductive layer is provided above the plurality of first conductive layers and is in contact with the first semiconductor layer. The second conductive layer is made of a metal or a silicide.

Implementations of an image sensor package may include an image sensor die including at least one bond pad thereon; a bond wire wirebonded to the at least one bond pad; and an optically transmissive lid coupled to the image sensor die with an optically opaque film adhesive over the at least one bond pad. The bond wire may extend through the optically opaque film adhesive to the at least one bond pad.

A semiconductor package is provided. The semiconductor package includes: an interposer; a System on Integrated Chips (SoIC) die stack bonded to a top surface of the interposer, the SoIC die stack comprising two or more dies bonded together; and a plurality of chips bonded to the top surface of the interposer. A first lateral distance, in a first direction, between a first boundary of the SoIC die stack and a boundary of a neighboring chip among the plurality of chips is larger than a first threshold distance.

A semiconductor device assembly including a first semiconductor die having a first dielectric region and a first bond pad that are disposed on a first side of the first semiconductor die; a second semiconductor die having a second dielectric region and a second bond pad that are disposed on a second side of the second semiconductor die; and a hybrid bonding interface between the first side of the first semiconductor die and the second side of the second semiconductor die, the hybrid bonding interface including a gap free metal-metal bonding region between the first and the second bond pads and a gap free dielectric-dielectric bonding region between the first and the second dielectric regions, wherein the dielectric-dielectric bonding region includes a nitrogen gradient with a concentration that increases with proximity to the metal-metal bonding region.

Methods of making a semiconductor device assembly are provided. The methods can comprise providing a first semiconductor device having a first dielectric material at a first surface, providing a carrier wafer having a second dielectric material at a second surface, and forming a dielectric-dielectric bond between the first dielectric material and the second dielectric material. At least one of the first surface and the second surface includes a region of hydrophobic material electrically isolated from any circuitry of the first semiconductor device and configured to have a reduced bonding strength to a facing region relative to the dielectric-dielectric bond. The method can further include stacking one or more second semiconductor devices over the first semiconductor device to form the semiconductor device assembly, and removing the semiconductor device assembly from the carrier wafer.

A stacked gate-all-around (GAA) complementary field-effect transistor (CFET) includes a first GAA FET of a first type and a second GAA FET of a second type. Each of the first GAA FET and the second GAA FET includes at least one three-dimensional (3D) semiconductor slab with a channel region and a first surface. A first gate structure surrounds the channel region in the first GAA FET, and a second gate structure surrounds the channel region in the second GAA FET. The first gate structure is stacked opposite the second gate structure in a direction orthogonal to the first surface. In some examples, a first crystal structure of the 3D semiconductor slab in the first GAA FET has a first orientation, and a second crystal structure of the 3D semiconductor slab in the second GAA FET has a different orientation for improved carrier mobility.

Provided is a substrate bonding device in which a risk of substrate damage due to vibration is alleviated, the substrate bonding device including a first chuck configured to support a lower substrate, a second chuck configured to grip an upper substrate facing the lower substrate in a first direction perpendicular to an upper surface of the lower substrate, and a press disposed at a center of the second chuck and configured to push the upper substrate toward the lower substrate in the first direction, and the press includes a first pressurizing part and a second pressurizing part which are spaced apart from each other in the first direction.

Provided is a semiconductor package including a plurality of first semiconductor chips respectively including a first semiconductor substrate and a plurality of first through electrodes penetrating the first semiconductor substrate, a second semiconductor chip on the plurality of first semiconductor chips, the second semiconductor chip including a second semiconductor substrate and a plurality of second through electrodes penetrating the second semiconductor substrate, a third semiconductor chip on the second semiconductor chip, the third semiconductor chip including a third semiconductor substrate and a plurality of third through electrodes penetrating the third semiconductor substrate, and a first encapsulation material on the plurality of first semiconductor chips, a planar shape of the second semiconductor chip is greater than a planar shape of each first semiconductor chip of the plurality of first semiconductor chips, and a planar shape of the third semiconductor chip is greater than the planar shape of the second semiconductor chip.

Implementations of a semiconductor package may include a semiconductor die including a first side and a second side, the first side of the semiconductor die including one or more electrical contacts; and an organic material covering at least the first side of the semiconductor die. Implementations may include where the one or more electrical contacts extend through one or more openings in the organic material; a metal-containing layer coupled to the one or more electrical contacts; and one or more slugs coupled to one of a first side of the semiconductor die, a second side of the semiconductor die, or both the first side of the semiconductor die and the second side of the semiconductor die.