A semiconductor package includes main pad structures and dummy pad structures between a first semiconductor chip and a second semiconductor chip. The main pad structures include first main pad structures apart from one another on the first semiconductor chip and second main pad structures placed apart from one another on the second semiconductor chip and bonded to the first main pad structures. The dummy pad structures include first dummy pad structures including first dummy pads apart from one another on the first semiconductor chip and first dummy capping layers on the first dummy pads, and second dummy pad structures including second dummy pads apart from one another on the second semiconductor chip and second dummy capping layers on the second dummy pads. The first dummy capping layers of the first dummy pad structures are not bonded to the second dummy capping layers of the second dummy pad structures.

A display apparatus is provided. The display apparatus includes a display substrate and a plurality of pads arranged above the display substrate. Each of the plurality of pads includes a first conductive layer, at least a portion of which is covered by an insulating film, a second conductive layer arranged above the first conductive layer, and a clamping portion formed in the second conductive layer.

A method of forming a semiconductor structure is disclosed. The method includes forming a semiconductor wafer having a device layer situated over a handle substrate, the device layer having at least one semiconductor device, forming a front side glass on a front side of the semiconductor wafer, and partially removing the handle substrate from a back side of the semiconductor wafer. The method also includes removing a portion of the semiconductor wafer from an outer perimeter thereof, either by sawing an edge trim trench through the handle substrate, the device layer and into the front side glass to form a ring, and removing the ring on the outer perimeter of the semiconductor wafer, or by edge grinding the outer perimeter of the semiconductor wafer. The method further includes completely removing the handle substrate.

A semiconductor structure includes a semiconductor wafer having at least one semiconductor device integrated in a first device layer, a thermally conductive but electrically isolating layer on a back side of the semiconductor wafer, a front side glass on a front side of the semiconductor wafer, where the thermally conductive but electrically isolating layer is configured to dissipate heat from the at least one semiconductor device integrated in the semiconductor wafer. The thermally conductive but electrically isolating layer is selected from the group consisting of aluminum nitride, beryllium oxide, and aluminum oxide. The at least one semiconductor device is selected from the group consisting of a complementary-metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) switch and a bipolar complementary-metal-oxide-semiconductor (BiCMOS) switch. The semiconductor structure also includes at least one pad opening extending from the back side of the semiconductor wafer to a contact pad.

A fan-out semiconductor package includes a semiconductor chip having an active surface, the active surface having a connection pad disposed thereon, and an inactive surface opposing the active surface; an encapsulant encapsulating at least a portion of the semiconductor chip; an insulating layer disposed on the active surface of the semiconductor chip; and a redistribution layer disposed on the insulating layer and electrically connected to the connection pad. The insulating layer includes a low Df dielectric material.

An integrated circuit device that comprises a single semiconductor substrate, a device layer formed on a frontside of the single semiconductor substrate, a redistribution layer formed on a backside of the single semiconductor substrate, a through silicon via (TSV) formed within the single semiconductor substrate that is electrically coupled to the device layer and to the redistribution layer, a logic-memory interface (LMI) formed on a backside of the single semiconductor substrate that is electrically coupled to the redistribution layer, and a MEMS device formed on the backside of the single semiconductor substrate that is electrically coupled to the redistribution layer.

A semiconductor package may include a first semiconductor chip and a second semiconductor chip. The first semiconductor chip may include a first semiconductor substrate, a through via structure and a pad pattern. The first semiconductor substrate may include a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface, and the second surface may include a recess. The through via structure may pass through the first semiconductor substrate from the first surface to a bottom of the recess of the second surface. An upper surface of the through via structure may protrude from the bottom of the recess. The pad pattern may be electrically connected to the upper surface of the through via structure, and the pad pattern may include a first recess having a concave shape thereon. The second semiconductor chip may include a bump pattern bonded on an inside of the first recess of the pad pattern.

Provided is a semiconductor package including: a first substrate having a first electrode pad and a first protective layer in which a cavity is formed; a first bump pad arranged in the cavity and connected to the first electrode pad; a second substrate facing the first substrate and having a second bump pad; and a bump structure in contact with the first bump pad and the second bump pad, wherein the first electrode pad has a trapezoidal shape, and the first bump pad has a flat upper surface and an inclined side surface extending along a side surface of the first electrode pad.

An IC includes a substrate including circuitry configured to provide a receiver or a transmitter circuit. A metal stack is over the semiconductor surface including a top metal layer and a plurality of lower metal layers. An isolation capacitor includes the top metal layer as a top plate that is electrically connected to a first node; and a top dielectric layer on the top plate with a top plate dielectric aperture. One of the plurality of lower metal layers provides a bottom plate that includes a plurality of spaced apart segments. A capacitor dielectric layer is between the top and bottom plate. The segments include a first segment electrically connected to a second node and at least a second segment electrically connected to a third node, with separation regions located between adjacent spaced apart segments. The top plate covers at least a portion of each of the separation regions.

There is set forth herein an optoelectrical device, comprising: a substrate; an interposer dielectric stack formed on the substrate, the interposer dielectric stack including a base interposer dielectric stack, a photonics device dielectric stack, and a bond layer that integrally bonds the photonics device dielectric stack to the base interposer dielectric stack. There is set forth herein a method comprising building an interposer base structure on a first wafer having a first substrate, including fabricating a plurality of through vias in the first substrate and fabricating within an interposer base dielectric stack formed on the first substrate one or more metallization layers; and building a photonics structure on a second wafer having a second substrate, including fabricating one or more photonics devices within a photonics device dielectric stack formed on the second substrate.