A method of manufacturing a layer structure includes: forming a first layer over a substrate; planarizing the first layer to form a planarized surface of the first layer; and forming a second layer over the planarized surface; wherein a porosity of the first layer is greater than a porosity of the substrate and greater than a porosity of the second layer; wherein the second layer is formed by physical vapor deposition; and wherein the first layer and the second layer are formed from the same solid material.

An integrated radio frequency (RF) circuit structure may include an active device on a front-side surface of a semiconductor device layer. A backside surface opposite the front-side surface of the semiconductor device layer may be supported by a backside dielectric layer. The integrated RF circuit structure may also include a handle substrate on a front-side dielectric layer that is on a front-side of the active device and a least a portion of the front-side surface of the semiconductor device layer. The integrated RF circuit structure may further include the backside dielectric layer on the backside surface of the semiconductor device layer. The backside dielectric layer may be arranged distal from the front-side dielectric layer.

A method of manufacturing a layer structure includes: forming a first layer over a substrate; planarizing the first layer to form a planarized surface of the first layer; and forming a second layer over the planarized surface; wherein a porosity of the first layer is greater than a porosity of the substrate and greater than a porosity of the second layer; wherein the second layer is formed by physical vapor deposition; and wherein the first layer and the second layer are formed from the same solid material.

A method of fabricating a device includes providing a process substrate on a carrier substrate, where the process substrate has a rectangular shape with a pair of long sides and a pair of short sides, providing a device on the process substrate, and continuously peeling the process substrate from the carrier substrate along a curve passing through a starting point which is one of vertices the process substrate, where the curve substantially perpendicularly passes through one of the short sides spaced apart from the starting point.

The benefits of strained semiconductors are combined with silicon-on-insulator approaches to substrate and device fabrication. A structure includes a relaxed substrate including a bulk material, a strained layer directly on the relaxed substrate, where a strain of the strained layer is not induced by the relaxed substrate, and a transistor formed on the strained layer.

The benefits of strained semiconductors are combined with silicon-on-insulator approaches to substrate and device fabrication.

A method of forming a thinned encapsulated chip structure, wherein the method comprises providing a separation structure arranged within an electronic chip, encapsulating part of the electronic chip by an encapsulating structure, and thinning selectively the electronic chip partially encapsulated by the encapsulating structure so that the encapsulating structure remains with a larger thickness than the thinned electronic chip, wherein the separation structure functions as a thinning stop.

A method of manufacturing an electronic device may include: forming at least one electronic component in a substrate; forming a contact pad in electrical contact with the at least one electronic component; wherein forming the contact pad includes: forming a first layer over the substrate; planarizing the first layer to form a planarized surface of the first layer; and forming a second layer over the planarized surface, wherein the second layer has a lower porosity than the first layer.

The benefits of strained semiconductors are combined with silicon-on-insulator approaches to substrate and device fabrication.

Techniques and mechanisms for a transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) material to be grown on one structure, and then transferred to a different structure. In an embodiment, one or more monolayers of a TMD material are grown on a workpiece comprising a substrate, a growth layer, and a release layer. A material of the substrate is transparent to a wavelength of a laser light, wherein the release layer is opaque to said wavelength. The resulting material stack is then coupled to a target structure, after which a laser ablation is performed to remove some or all of the release layer from between the substrate and the growth layer. The ablation enables the substrate to be separated from the one or more monolayers. In an embodiment, a residue on a surface of the one or more TMD monolayers is an artefact of the layer transfer process.