Representative implementations of devices and techniques provide interconnect structures and components for coupling various carriers, printed circuit board (PCB) components, integrated circuit (IC) dice, and the like, using tall and/or fine pitch physical connections. Multiple layers of conductive structures or materials are arranged to form the interconnect structures and components. Nonwettable barriers may be used with one or more of the layers to form a shape, including a pitch of one or more of the layers.

Representative implementations of devices and techniques provide interconnect structures and components for coupling various carriers, printed circuit board (PCB) components, integrated circuit (IC) dice, and the like, using tall and/or fine pitch physical connections. Multiple layers of conductive structures or materials are arranged to form the interconnect structures and components. Nonwettable barriers may be used with one or more of the layers to form a shape, including a pitch of one or more of the layers.

Various embodiments herein relate to methods and apparatus for electroplating material onto substrates. Often the substrate is a semiconductor substrate. Various techniques described herein utilize a number of different electroplating stages, where the convection conditions vary between the different electroplating stages. In many cases, at least one ultra-low convection stage is used. The ultra-low convection stage may be paired with an initial stage and a final stage that have higher convection conditions. By controlling the convection conditions as described herein, very uniform plating results can be achieved, even when differently sized and/or shaped features are provided on a single substrate.

The present disclosure provides a semiconductor device including: a substrate including, in a central portion the substrate, n first element formation regions having a rectangular shape and are arrayed along a first direction, and n+m second element formation regions arrayed along the first direction adjacent to the first element formation regions; plural projecting electrodes formed at each of the first and the second element formation regions; and plural dummy projecting electrodes formed, at a peripheral portion, overlapping a triangle defined by a first edge of the first element formation region that forms a boundary between the first element formation region and the peripheral portion, and a second edge of the second element formation region that is adjacent to a corner of the first edge and that forms a boundary between the second element formation region and the peripheral portion.

A semiconductor structure includes a conductive bump, and a ferromagnetic member extended within the conductive bump, wherein a center of the conductive bump is disposed on a central axis of the ferromagnetic member.

A semiconductor structure includes a conductive bump, and a ferromagnetic member extended within the conductive bump, wherein a center of the conductive bump is disposed on a central axis of the ferromagnetic member.

The present invention provides a method for forming bumps of a semiconductor package to suppress a final height difference between main bumps and support bumps that is caused by a height difference between areas of an underlying layer when viewed on a cross-section. The method may include forming first seed layer patterns and second seed layer patterns which are disposed in the areas and are separated from each other, over the underlying layer having the height difference. The method may include forming the main bumps and the support bumps of which final heights are the same when viewed on the cross-section in the areas, by performing electroplating through using, as electrodes, the first seed layer patterns and the second seed layer patterns which are disposed in the areas and are separated from each other, under different conditions in the areas.

The present invention provides a method for forming bumps of a semiconductor package to suppress a final height difference between main bumps and support bumps that is caused by a height difference between areas of an underlying layer when viewed on a cross-section. The method may include forming first seed layer patterns and second seed layer patterns which are disposed in the areas and are separated from each other, over the underlying layer having the height difference. The method may include forming the main bumps and the support bumps of which final heights are the same when viewed on the cross-section in the areas, by performing electroplating through using, as electrodes, the first seed layer patterns and the second seed layer patterns which are disposed in the areas and are separated from each other, under different conditions in the areas.

Representative implementations of devices and techniques provide interconnect structures and components for coupling various carriers, printed circuit board (PCB) components, integrated circuit (IC) dice, and the like, using tall and/or fine pitch physical connections. Multiple layers of conductive structures or materials are arranged to form the interconnect structures and components. Nonwettable barriers may be used with one or more of the layers to form a shape, including a pitch of one or more of the layers.

Representative implementations of devices and techniques provide interconnect structures and components for coupling various carriers, printed circuit board (PCB) components, integrated circuit (IC) dice, and the like, using tall and/or fine pitch physical connections. Multiple layers of conductive structures or materials are arranged to form the interconnect structures and components. Nonwettable barriers may be used with one or more of the layers to form a shape, including a pitch of one or more of the layers.