Disclosed are a display substrate, a preparation method therefor, and a display device. The display substrate includes a display region and a binding region on one side of the display region. The binding region includes a binding structure layer disposed on a base. The binding structure layer includes a composite insulating layer disposed on the base. The binding region further includes a step structure formed by the base and the composite insulating layer. Heights of steps in the step structure decrease sequentially in the direction away from the display region. In the step structure, the base forms a first step having the smallest height. The binding structure layer further includes a signal connection wire having at least a portion thereof the disposed on the step structure and located on the first step. An opening exposing the signal connection wire is provided on the base at the first step.

A cryo-compatible quantum computing arrangement includes a microelectronic quantum computing component having a substrate structure, a plurality of first contact elements and a plurality of conductive feedthroughs through the substrate structure, wherein the conductive feedthroughs are electrically connected on a first main surface area of the substrate structure to associated first contact elements of the microelectronic quantum computing component, and a further microelectronic component having a plurality of second contact elements, wherein on a second main surface area of the substrate structure, the conductive feedthroughs are electrically connected to associated second contact elements of the further microelectronic component, and wherein the conductive feedthroughs each include, between the first and second contact elements, a layer element including a first material that is superconducting at a quantum computing operating temperature, and a filling element including a second material that is electrically conductive.

A display backplane is provided, including a base, wherein pixel circuits, bonding electrodes, and bonding connection wires are on the base; the bonding electrodes are coupled to the bonding connection wires in a one-to-one correspondence; the bonding electrodes and the bonding connection wires are on two opposite surfaces of the base; the pixel circuits and the bonding connection wires are on a same side of the base; one end of each bonding connection wire is coupled to the bonding electrode through the first via in the base; the other end of each of at least some bonding connection wires is coupled to the pixel circuit; and an orthographic projection of at least one of the bonding electrodes and the bonding connection wires on the base is not coincident with an orthographic projection of the pixel circuit on the base.

In an embodiment, a method includes attaching a first package component to a first carrier, the first package component comprising: an aluminum pad disposed adjacent to a substrate; a sacrificial pad disposed adjacent to the substrate, the sacrificial pad comprising a major surface opposite the substrate, a protrusion of the sacrificial pad extending from the major surface; and a dielectric bond layer disposed around the aluminum pad and the sacrificial pad; attaching a second carrier to the first package component and the first carrier, the first package component being interposed between the first carrier and the second carrier; removing the first carrier; planarizing the dielectric bond layer to comprise a top surface being coplanar with the protrusion; and etching a portion of the protrusion.

A method of forming a semiconductor package includes attaching a first package component to a first carrier; attaching a second package component to the first carrier, the second package component laterally displaced from the first package component; attaching a third package component to the first package component, the third package component being electrically connected to the first package component; removing the first carrier from the first package component and the second package component; after removing the first carrier, performing a first circuit probe test on the second package component to obtain first test data of the second package component; and comparing the first test data of the second package component with prior data of the second package component.

A semiconductor package includes a semiconductor chip including a second bonding insulating layer surrounding at least a portion of each of a first bonding pad structure and a second bonding pad structure, in which the first bonding pad structure includes a first contact portion, a first bonding pad, and a first seed layer disposed between the first bonding pad and the first contact portion and extending in a first direction, the second bonding pad structure includes a second contact portion, a second bonding pad, and a second seed layer disposed between the second bonding pad and the second contact portion and extending in the first direction, and the second bonding insulating layer is in contact with a side surface of each of the first and second seed layers and the first and second bonding pads.

A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device, the method including: preparing an insulated circuit substrate including a conductive plate; partially fixing a plate-like bonding member onto the conductive plate so as to make a positioning of the bonding member in a horizontal direction; mounting a semiconductor chip on the bonding member; and heating and melting the bonding member so as to form a bonding layer for bonding the insulated circuit substrate and the semiconductor chip each other.

A temporary bond method and apparatus for allowing wafers, chips or chiplets. To be tested, the temporary bond method and apparatus comprising: a temporary connection apparatus having one of more knife-edged microstructures, wherein the temporary connection apparatus serves, in use, as a probe device for probing the chiplets, each chiplet including a die having one or more flat contact pads which mate with the one of more knife-edged microstructures of the temporary connection apparatus; a press apparatus for applying pressure between the one or more flat contact pads on the chiplet with the one of more knife-edged microstructures of the temporary connection apparatus thereby forming a temporary bond between the temporary connection pad with the knife-edged microstructure in contact with the one or more flat wafer pads; the press being able to apply a pressure to maintain the temporary bond connection during or prior to testing of the chiplet.

A semiconductor device includes an interlayer insulating layer disposed on a substrate; a plurality of middle interconnections disposed in the interlayer insulating layer; a pad disposed on the interlayer insulating layer; an upper interconnection disposed on the interlayer insulating layer; a protective insulating layer covering an edge of the pad, the upper interconnection, and a horizontal gap between the pad and the upper interconnection, the protective insulating layer having an opening on the pad; and a bump disposed on the pad, the bump extending on the protective insulating layer and overlapping the upper interconnection from a top-down view. At least one of the plurality of middle interconnections from among middle interconnections vertically closest to the pad has a first vertical thickness, the pad has a second vertical thickness that is twice to 100 times the first vertical thickness, a length of the gap between the pad and the upper interconnection is 1 μm or more, and an upper surface of the protective insulating layer is planar.

Methods of coupling inductors in an IC device using interconnecting elements with solder caps and the resulting device are disclosed. Embodiments include forming a top inductor structure, in a top inductor area on a lower surface of a top substrate, the top inductor structure having first and second top terminals at its opposite ends; forming a bottom inductor structure, in a bottom inductor area on an upper surface of a bottom substrate, the bottom inductor structure having first and second bottom terminals at its opposite ends; forming top interconnecting elements on the lower surface of the top substrate around the top inductor area; forming bottom interconnecting elements on the upper surface of the bottom substrate around the bottom inductor area; forming solder bumps on lower and upper surfaces, respectively, of the top and bottom interconnecting elements; and connecting the top and bottom interconnecting elements to each other.