A bonding material that contains first particles containing a first metal, second particles containing a second metal having a melting point lower than that of the first metal, and filling resin is supplied on one of a semiconductor element or a conductor member, and a gap is formed in a surface of the supplied bonding material. The other of the conductor member or the semiconductor element is mounted on and pressed against the bonding material in which the gap is formed, and the filling resin unevenly distributed on the surface of the bonding material is moved to the gap.

A semiconductor device includes a metal chip mounting member and a semiconductor chip bonded to the chip mounting member through a metal sintered material, wherein the metal sintered material includes a first portion overlapping the semiconductor chip in a plan view, and includes a second portion surrounding the semiconductor chip in the plan view, and wherein a porosity ratio of the first portion is greater than or equal to 1% and less than 15%, and a porosity ratio of the second portion is greater than or equal to 15% and less than or equal to 50%.

A power semiconductor package includes a first direct bonded copper (DBC) substrate having a plurality of connection traces on a first face of the first DBC substrate. A plurality of die are coupled to the connection traces, each die coupled to one of the connection traces at a first face of the die. A second DBC substrate includes connection traces on a first face of the second DBC substrate. A second face of each die is coupled to one of the connection traces of the first face of the second DBC substrate. A cavity between the first face of the first DBC substrate and the first face of the second DBC substrate is filled with an encapsulating compound. Terminal pins may be coupled to connection traces on the first face of the first DBC substrate. More than two DBC substrates may be stacked to form a stacked power semiconductor package.

Provided is an optical semiconductor element in which an unbonded portion between an optical semiconductor chip and a submount is made small, heat dissipation efficiency becomes high, and service life can be made long. The optical semiconductor element can include: a submount; a submount electrode provided on a mounting surface of the submount and having a rectangular shape as a whole; and a semiconductor chip including an element substrate, a semiconductor structure layer formed on the element substrate, and a chip electrode bonded to the submount electrode via a bonding layer. The chip electrode has a shape with chipped corners corresponding to four corners of the submount electrode, which has an exposed surface that is a portion exposed from the chip electrode at the four corners and bonded to the chip electrode to coincide with each other. The bonding layer extends to all the four corners of the exposed surface.

An emissive panel and associated assembly method are provided. The method provides an emissive substrate having an insulating layer with a top surface and a back surface, and a dielectric layer overlying the insulating layer patterned to form a plurality of wells. Each well has a bottom surface formed on the insulating layer top surface with a first electrical interface electrically connected to a first conductive pressure channel (CPC). The CPCs are each made up of a pressure via with sidewalls formed between the well bottom surface and the insulating layer back surface. A metal layer coats the sidewalls, and a medium flow passage formed interior to the metal layer. The method uses negative pressure through the CPCs to help capture emissive elements in a liquid flow deposition process.

This disclosure is related to arranging micro devices in the donor substrate by either patterning or population so that there is no interfering with unwanted pads and the non-interfering area in the donor substrate is maximized. This enables to have transfer the devices to receiver substrate with fewer steps.

A method of establishing conductive connections is disclosed. The method includes providing an integrated circuit die having a plurality of solder balls each of which has an oxide layer on an outer surface of the solder ball. The method also includes performing a heating process to heat at least the solder balls and applying a force causing each of a plurality of piercing bond structures on a substrate to pierce one of the solder balls and its associated oxide layer to thereby establish a conductive connection between the solder ball and the piercing bond structure.

This disclosure is related to arranging micro devices in the donor substrate by either patterning or population so that there is no interfering with unwanted pads and the non-interfering area in the donor substrate is maximized. This enables to transfer the devices to receiver substrate with fewer steps.

A detection structure and a detection method are provided. The method includes the following. A display backplane, a detection circuit board, and a detection light-emitting diode (LED) chip are provided. The detection circuit board is disposed on the display backplane, to connect a first detection line on the detection circuit board with a first contact electrode and connect a second detection line on the detection circuit board with a second contact electrode. A drive signal is output via the display backplane to the first detection line and the second detection line. A contact electrode pair on the display backplane corresponding to the detection LED chip is determined to be abnormal on condition that the detection LED chip is unlighted.

The power semiconductor apparatus includes: a semiconductor device 401; a bonding layer on chip 416 disposed on an upper surface of the semiconductor device; and a metal lead 419 disposed on the upper surface of the semiconductor device and bonded to the bonding layer on chip, wherein the metal lead 420 has a three-laminated structure including: a second metal layer 420b having a CTE equal to or less than 510.sup.6/ C., for example; and a first metal layer 420a and a third metal layer 420c sandwiching the second metal layer and having a CTE equal to or greater than the CTE of the second metal layer. Provided is a power semiconductor apparatus capable of improving reliability thereof by reducing a thermal stress to a bonding layer between a semiconductor power device and a metal lead positioned on an upper surface thereof, and reducing a resistance of the metal lead.