An integrated circuit package can contain a semiconductor die and provide electrical connections between the semiconductor die and additional electronic components. The integrated circuit package can reduce stress placed on the semiconductor die due to movement of the integrated circuit package due to, for example, temperature changes and/or moisture levels. The integrated circuit package can at least partially mechanically isolate the semiconductor die from the integrated circuit package.

An integrated circuit package can contain a semiconductor die and provide electrical connections between the semiconductor die and additional electronic components. The integrated circuit package can reduce stress placed on the semiconductor die due to movement of the integrated circuit package due to, for example, temperature changes and/or moisture levels. The integrated circuit package can at least partially mechanically isolate the semiconductor die from the integrated circuit package.

A semiconductor device includes a substrate that includes a first surface, a first semiconductor chip that includes a second surface facing the first surface of the substrate and a third surface opposite to the second surface, each of the second and third surfaces having a rectangular shape that includes a plurality of sides and has surface areas that are different, and a second semiconductor chip disposed on the first surface of the substrate on one side of the first semiconductor chip. When viewed in a first direction substantially perpendicular to the substrate, one of the sides of the third surface that is closest to the second semiconductor chip overlaps an interior portion of the second semiconductor chip.

A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device that includes an insulated circuit board having a conductive pattern, a first semiconductor chip with a rectangular shape connected through a first joining material to the conductive pattern, a second semiconductor chip with a rectangular shape disposed on the conductive pattern separated from the first semiconductor chip and connected through a second joining material to the conductive pattern, a terminal disposed above the semiconductor chips, respectively connected to the first and second semiconductor chips through third and fourth joining materials, the terminal having a through-hole above a place between the first and second semiconductor chips, the method including a positioning step in which the first and second semiconductor chips are respectively positioned at at least three positioning places, and at least one of the positioning places is positioned with a positioning member inserted into the through-hole.

An electronic device includes a carrier and a semiconductor chip, wherein the carrier includes a first dielectric layer and a second dielectric layer, a thermal conductivity of the first dielectric layer exceeds a thermal conductivity of the second dielectric layer, the second dielectric layer is arranged on the first dielectric layer and partially covers the first dielectric layer, the semiconductor chip is arranged on the carrier in a mounting area in which the first dielectric layer is not covered by the second dielectric layer, and the carrier includes a solder terminal for electrical contacting arranged on the second dielectric layer.

Method for producing wire bond connections between an electronic component or a module and a substrate with energy input into a bonding wire by an ultrasonic transducer, wherein during the energy input for forming a first wire bond connection, at least one bonding parameter characterizing the instantaneous state of the bonding wire is measured in dependence on time, the curve shape of the time dependence is differentiated by means of predetermined comparative criteria or curves into three curve sections and hereby the temporal course of the method into three phases, to be specific, a cleaning, a fusion and a tempering phase, and the energy fed into the ultrasonic transducer and/or the bonding force exerted on the bonding wire and/or the duration of the energy input into at least one partial section of at least the cleaning and the fusion phase, in particular each of the cleaning, fusion and tempering phases is/are controlled independent of the measurement result in quasi real time during the formation of the first wire bond connection or during the subsequent formation of a second wire bond connection of the same type in dependence on the curve shape in the associated curve section in a phase-specific manner.

Various embodiments provide an electronic module comprising a interposer comprising a fluid channel formed in an electrically isolating material and an electrically conductive structured layer; at least one electronic chip attached to the electrically conductive layer and in thermal contact to the fluid channel; and a molded encapsulation formed at least partially around the at least one electronic chip, wherein the electrically conductive structured layer is directly formed on the electrically isolating material.

A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device including: bonding a wire constituted of copper on an electrode pad provided on a surface of a semiconductor substrate, wherein the electrode pad includes a hard metal layer harder than the wire as a surface layer of the electrode pad, a recess is provided in a surface of the hard metal layer, the wire before the bonding includes a linear portion and a ball portion provided at a distal end of the linear portion and having a diameter larger than a diameter of the linear portion, and the ball portion is bonded in the recess in the bonding.

An SiC semiconductor device includes an SiC chip having a first main surface at one side and a second main surface at another side, a first main surface electrode including a first Al layer and formed on the first main surface, a pad electrode formed on the first main surface electrode and to be connected to a lead wire, and a second main surface electrode including a second Al layer and formed on the second main surface.

A semiconductor device has a plurality of small-sized semiconductor chips disposed between an insulated circuit board having a conductive pattern and a terminal. The semiconductor device exhibits a high accuracy in positioning the semiconductor chips. The semiconductor device includes an insulated circuit board having a conductive pattern, a first semiconductor chip with a rectangular shape connected to the conductive pattern through a first joining material, a second semiconductor chip with a rectangular shape, disposed on the conductive pattern separated from the first semiconductor chip and connected to the conductive pattern through a second joining material, and a terminal disposed above the first semiconductor chip and the second semiconductor chip, connected to the first semiconductor chip through a third joining material, and connected to the second semiconductor chip through a fourth joining material. The terminal has a through-hole above a place between the first semiconductor chip and the second semiconductor chip.