Conductive via bars self-aligned to gate ends are described. In an example, an integrated circuit structure includes a plurality of gate structures. The integrated circuit structure also includes a plurality of dielectric spacers, a corresponding one of the plurality of dielectric spacers laterally surrounding a corresponding one of the plurality of gate structures. A plurality of conductive trench contact structures is alternating with the plurality of gate structures. A conductive via bar is along ends of the plurality of gate structures and ends of the plurality of conductive trench contact structures, wherein the plurality of dielectric spacers is between the ends of the plurality of gate structures and the conductive via bar.

An integrated circuit (IC) structure includes a continuous well including first through third well portions. The continuous well is one of an n-well or a p-well, the first well portion extends in a first direction, the second well portion extends from the first well portion in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, and the third well portion extends from the first well portion in the second direction parallel to the second well portion.

A die assembly comprising: a first component layer having conductive through-connections in an insulator, a second component layer comprising a die, and an active device layer (ADL) at an interface between the first component layer and the second component layer. The ADL comprises active elements electrically coupled to the first component layer and the second component layer. The die assembly further comprises a bonding layer electrically coupling the ADL to the second component layer. In some embodiments, the die assembly further comprises another ADL at another interface between the first component layer and a package support opposite to the interface. The first component layer may comprise another die having through-substrate vias (TSVs). The die and the another die may be fabricated using different process nodes.

Microelectronic assemblies fabricated using hybrid manufacturing with modified via-last process are disclosed. The fabrication approach is based on using hybrid manufacturing to bond first and second IC structures originally provided on different dies but filling at least portions of vias that are supposed to couple across a bonding interface between the first and second IC structures with electrically conductive materials after the IC structures have been bonded. A resulting microelectronic assembly that includes the first and second IC structures bonded together may have vias extending through all of the first IC structure and into the second IC structure, thus providing electrical coupling between one or more components of the first IC structure and those of the second IC structure, where an electrically conductive material in the individual vias is continuous through the first IC structure and at least a portion of the second IC structure.

A semiconductor package includes a first die. The first die includes a semiconductor substrate. The semiconductor substrate has a first surface, a second surface opposite to the first surface, and a through hole between the first surface and the second surface and having an inner wall. The inner wall has a first lever arm. A length of the first lever arm is less than a thickness of the semiconductor substrate.

A semiconductor device includes: a semiconductor substrate having opposing first side and second sides; an active region and an isolation region on the first side; a circuit device on the active region; a front side interconnection structure on the first side and including front side interconnection layers disposed on different levels; first and second back side interconnection structures below the second side; a buried structure having a portion disposed in the isolation region and including a conductive line; a first through-electrode structure including a first through-electrode contacting the conductive line and penetrating the semiconductor substrate between the conductive line and the first back side interconnection structure; and a second through-electrode structure including a second through-electrode penetrating the semiconductor substrate between a first front side interconnection layer and the second back side interconnection structure. The first front side interconnection layer is on a level higher than that of the conductive line.

A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device is provided. The method includes forming a first trench partially through a first substrate from a first side of the first substrate. The method also includes widening a bottom portion of the first trench to form a lateral footing area of the first trench. The method includes forming a first metallization in the first trench; forming a second trench through a second substrate from a second side of the second substrate to expose at least a portion of first metallization in an area corresponding to the lateral footing area of the first trench, the second side being opposite to the first side. The method also includes forming a second metallization in the second trench in contact with the first metallization.

A bonded assembly includes a first semiconductor die that includes first semiconductor devices, and a first pad-level dielectric layer and embedding first bonding pads; and a second semiconductor die that includes second semiconductor devices, and a second pad-level dielectric layer embedding second bonding pads that includes a respective second pad base portion. Each of the first bonding pads includes a respective first pad base portion and a respective first metal alloy material portion having a higher coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE) than the respective first pad base portion. Each of the second bonding pads is bonded to a respective one of the first bonding pads.

A wafer includes a substrate that includes a channel layer, a first active region, a second active region, and a saw street region between the first active region and the second active region. The wafer includes a first device formed on the substrate in the first active region. The first device includes a first portion of the channel layer. The wafer includes a second device formed on the substrate in the second active region. The second device includes a second portion of the channel layer. The wafer includes a conductive channel between the first active region and the second active region. The conductive channel is in the saw street of the wafer and includes a third portion of the channel layer.

A method includes bonding a first device die to a second device die, encapsulating the first device die in a first encapsulant, performing a backside grinding process on the second device die to reveal through-vias in the second device die, and forming first electrical connectors on the second device die to form a package. The package includes the first device die and the second device die. The method further includes encapsulating the first package in a second encapsulant, and forming an interconnect structure overlapping the first package and the second encapsulant. The interconnect structure comprises second electrical connectors.