A chip scale package structure is provided. The chip scale package structure includes an image sensor chip and a chip. The image sensor chip includes a first redistribution layer including a conductive wire and a conductive pad formed on the conductive wire, wherein the conductive pad is exposed from the surface of the first redistribution layer. The chip includes a plurality of through silicon via (TSV) and a second redistribution layer including a conductive wire and a conductive pad formed on the conductive wire, wherein the conductive pad is exposed from the surface of the second redistribution layer. The area of the chip is smaller than that of the image sensor chip. The second redistribution layer of the chip bonds to the first redistribution layer of the image sensor chip.

A terminal structure includes a wiring layer, a protective insulation layer, an open portion, and a connection terminal. The protective insulation layer covers the wiring layer. The open portion extends through the protective insulation layer in a thickness-wise direction to expose part of an upper surface of the wiring layer. The connection terminal is formed on the wiring layer exposed from the open portion. The open portion includes a wall surface, a depression, and a projection. The wall surface extends downward from an upper surface of the protective insulation layer. The depression is depressed into the protective insulation layer from the wall surface toward an outer side of the open portion. The projection is formed under the depression, continuously with the depression, and projected from the depression into the open portion further inward than the wall surface in a plan view. The depression is filled with the connection terminal.

A method includes bonding a package component to a composite carrier. The composite carrier includes a base carrier and an absorption layer, and the absorption layer is between the base carrier and the package component. A laser beam is projected onto the composite carrier. The laser beam penetrates through the base carrier to ablate the absorption layer. The base carrier may then be separated from the package component.

An embodiment is a method including depositing a first dielectric layer over a molding compound and a chip and patterning a first opening in the first dielectric layer to expose a contact of the chip. A first metallization layer is deposited over the first dielectric layer and in the first opening, where a portion of the first metallization layer in the first opening has a flat top. A second dielectric layer is deposited over the first metallization layer and the first dielectric layer. A second metallization layer is deposited in a second opening in the second dielectric layer, where the second metallization layer does not have a flat top within the second opening.

A semiconductor device that includes a bipolar transistor, wherein a third opening, through which a pillar bump and a second wiring line, which is electrically connected to an emitter layer, contact each other, is shifted in a longitudinal direction of the emitter layer away from a position at which the third opening would be directly above the emitter layer. The third opening is arranged, with respect to the emitter layer, such that an end portion of the emitter layer in the longitudinal direction of the emitter layer and the edge of the opening of the third opening are substantially aligned with each other.

A display device includes an array substrate, a plurality of mounting electrodes provided to the array substrate, a columnar conductor for coupling provided to each of the mounting electrodes, a plurality of light-emitting elements provided to the array substrate, a first electrode and a second electrode provided to a surface of each of the light-emitting elements facing the array substrate, the first electrode being coupled to one of an anode and a cathode of the light-emitting element, the second electrode being coupled to the other of the anode and the cathode of the light-emitting element, and a coupling member covering each of the first electrode and the second electrode. The columnar conductor is made of material harder than the coupling member, and an end of the columnar conductor on the light-emitting element side is electrically coupled to the coupling member.

Packaging devices and methods of manufacture thereof for semiconductor devices are disclosed. In some embodiments, a method of manufacturing a packaging device includes forming an interconnect wiring over a substrate, and forming conductive balls over portions of the interconnect wiring. A molding material is deposited over the conductive balls and the substrate, and a portion of the molding material is removed from over scribe line regions of the substrate.

A printed structure includes a destination substrate comprising two or more contact pads disposed on or in a surface of the destination substrate, a component disposed on the surface, and two or more electrically conductive connection posts. Each of the connection posts extends from a common side of the component. Each of the connection posts is in electrical and physical contact with one of the contact pads. The component is tilted with respect to the surface of the destination substrate. Each of the connection posts has a flat distal surface.

An electrical component including a substrate, a first dielectric layer on the substrate, a redistribution layer pad on the first dielectric layer, and a component interconnection element on the redistribution layer pad so that the component interconnection element fills an opening in the second dielectric layer. The opening includes at least one protrusion between the component interconnection element solder ball metallization and the redistribution layer pad.

A semiconductor Schottky rectifier built in an epitaxial semiconductor layer over a substrate has an anode structure and a cathode structure extending from the surface of the epitaxial layer. The cathode contact structure has a trench structure near the epi-layer and a vertical sidewall surface covered with a gate oxide layer. The cathode structure further comprises a polysilicon element adjacent to the gate oxide layer.