A semiconductor device assembly including a substrate, a semiconductor device, a stiffener member, and mold compound. The stiffener member is tuned, or configured, to reduce and/or control the shape of warpage of the semiconductor device assembly at an elevated temperature. The stiffener member may be placed on the substrate, on the semiconductor device, and/or on the mold compound. A plurality of stiffener members may be used. The stiffener members may be positioned in a predetermined pattern on a component of the semiconductor device assembly. A stiffener member may be used so that the warpage of a first semiconductor device substantially corresponds to the warpage of a second semiconductor device at an elevated temperature. The stiffener member may be tuned by providing the member with a desired coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE). The desired CTE may be based on the individual CTEs of the components of a semiconductor device assembly.

A package that includes a second redistribution portion, a die coupled to the second redistribution portion, an encapsulation layer encapsulating the die, and a first redistribution portion coupled to the second redistribution portion. The first redistribution portion is located laterally to the die. The first redistribution portion is located over the second redistribution portion. The first redistribution portion and the second redistribution portion are configured to provide one or more electrical paths for the die.

An antenna module includes an antenna substrate, a first semiconductor package, disposed on the antenna substrate, including a first connection member including one or more first redistribution layers, electrically connected to the antenna substrate, and a first semiconductor chip disposed on the first connection member, and a second semiconductor package, disposed on the antenna substrate to be spaced apart from the first semiconductor package, including a second connection member including one or more second redistribution layers, electrically connected to the antenna substrate, and a second semiconductor chip disposed on the second connection member. The first semiconductor chip and the second semiconductor chip are different types of semiconductor chips.

A semiconductor device package includes a first circuit layer and an emitting device. The first circuit layer has a first surface, a second surface opposite to the first surface and a lateral surface extending between the first surface and the second surface. The emitting device is disposed on the second surface of the first circuit layer. The emitting device has a first surface facing the second surface of the first circuit layer, a second surface opposite to the first surface and a lateral surface extending between the first surface and the second surface. The emitting device has a conductive pattern disposed on the second surface of the emitting device. The lateral surface of the emitting device and the lateral surface of the first circuit layer are discontinuous.

An integrated circuit package that includes a liquid phase thermal interface material (TIM) is described. The package may include any number of die. The liquid phase TIM can be sealed in a chamber between a die and an integrated heat spreader and bounded on the sides by a perimeter layer. The liquid phase TIM can be fixed in place or circulated, depending on application. A thermal conductivity of the liquid phase TIM can be at least 15 Watts/meter-Kelvin, according to some embodiments. A liquid phase TIM eliminates failure mechanisms present in solid phase TIMs, such as cracking due to warpage and uncontained flow out of the module.

A semiconductor package including a semiconductor chip, an interposer on the semiconductor chip, and a molding layer covering at least a portion of the semiconductor chip and at least a portion of the interposer may be provided. The interposer includes a interposer substrate and a heat dissipation pattern penetrating the interposer substrate and electrically insulated from the semiconductor chip. The heat dissipation pattern includes a through electrode disposed in the interposer substrate and an upper pad disposed on an upper surface of the interposer substrate and connected to the through electrode. The molding layer covers at least a portion of a sidewall of the upper pad and the upper surface of the interposer substrate. At least a portion of an upper surface of the upper pad is not covered by the molding layer.

A semiconductor body having a base carrier portion and a type III-nitride semiconductor portion is provided. The type III-nitride semiconductor portion includes a heterojunction and two-dimensional charge carrier gas. One or more ohmic contacts are formed in the type III-nitride semiconductor portion, the ohmic contacts forming an ohmic connection with the two-dimensional charge carrier gas. A gate structure is configured to control a conductive state of the two-dimensional charge carrier gas. Forming the one or more ohmic contacts comprises forming a structured laser-reflective mask on the upper surface of the type III-nitride semiconductor portion, implanting dopant atoms into the upper surface of the type III-nitride semiconductor portion, and performing a laser thermal anneal that activates the implanted dopant atoms.

The semiconductor device includes: a heat spreader; a semiconductor element joined to the heat spreader via a first joining member; a first lead frame joined to the heat spreader via a second joining member; a second lead frame joined to the semiconductor element via a third joining member; and a mold resin. In a cross-sectional shape obtained by cutting at a plane perpendicular to a one-side surface of the heat spreader, an angle on the third joining member side out of two angles formed by a one-side surface of the semiconductor element and a straight line connecting an end point of a joining surface between the third joining member and the semiconductor element and an end point of a joining surface between the third joining member and the second lead frame, is not smaller than 90° and not larger than 135°.

A semiconductor device having a channel between active sections or portions of the device is disclosed. An elastic material, such as dielectric or a polymer, is deposited into the channel and cured to increase flexibility and thermal expansion properties of the semiconductor device. The elastic material reduces the thermal and mechanical mismatch between the semiconductor device and the substrate to which the semiconductor device is coupled in downstream processing to improve reliability. The semiconductor device may also include a plurality of channels formed transverse with respect to each other. Some of the channels extend all the way through the semiconductor device, while other channels extend only partially through the semiconductor device.

A power electronic switching device has a substrate facing in a normal direction with a first and a second conductive track, and a power semiconductor component is arranged on the first conductive track by an electrically conductive connection. The power semiconductor component has a laterally surrounding edge and an edge region and a contact region on its first primary side facing away from the substrate, and with a three-dimensionally preformed insulation molding that has an overlap segment, a connection segment and an extension segment, wherein the overlap segment, starting from the edge partially overlaps the edge region of the power semiconductor component.