Disclosed herein is a bump-on-trace interconnect with a wetted trace sidewall and a method for fabricating the same. A first substrate having conductive bump with solder applied is mounted to a second substrate with a trace disposed thereon by reflowing the solder on the bump so that the solder wets at least one sidewall of the trace, with the solder optionally wetting between at least half and all of the height of the trace sidewall. A plurality of traces and bumps may also be disposed on the first substrate and second substrate with a bump pitch of less than about 100 μm, and volume of solder for application to the bump calculated based on at least one of a joint gap distance, desired solder joint width, predetermined solder joint separation, bump geometry, trace geometry, minimum trace sidewall wetting region height and trace separation distance.

A semiconductor device is disclosed, which includes: a substrate having a plurality of connecting pads; a semiconductor component having a plurality of bonding pads formed on a surface thereof and corresponding to the connecting pads and a UBM layer formed on the bonding pads; a plurality of conductive elements each having a first conductive portion and a second conductive portion sequentially formed on the UBM layer, wherein the second conductive portion is less in width than the first conductive portion; and a plurality of solder balls formed between the second conductive portions and the connecting pads for connecting the semiconductor component and the substrate, thereby preventing solder bridging from occurring between the adjacent conductive elements and reducing stresses between the conductive elements and the UBM layer.

A tin plating solution and a method for fabricating a semiconductor device are provided. The tin plating solution comprises tin ions supplied from a soluble tin electrode, an aliphatic sulfonic acid having a carbon number of 1 to 10, an anti-oxidant, a wetting agent, and a grain refiner that is an aromatic carbonyl compound.

A tin plating solution and a method for fabricating a semiconductor device are provided. The tin plating solution comprises tin ions supplied from a soluble tin electrode, an aliphatic sulfonic acid having a carbon number of 1 to 10, an anti-oxidant, a wetting agent, and a grain refiner that is an aromatic carbonyl compound.

A semiconductor structure including an integrated circuit die and conductive bumps is provided. The integrated circuit die includes bump pads. The conductive bumps are disposed on the bump pads. Each of the conductive bumps includes a first pillar portion disposed on one of the bump pads and a second pillar portion disposed on the first pillar portion. The second pillar portion is electrically connected to one of the bump pads through the first pillar portion, wherein a first width of the first pillar portion is greater than a second width of the second pillar portion. A package structure including the above-mentioned semiconductor structure is also provided.

A display panel has a plurality of pixel areas and a peripheral area surrounding the pixel areas, and includes a substrate, at least two planarization layers, a plurality of pads, a first dummy pattern, and a plurality of light-emitting devices. The substrate has a first substrate edge extending in a first direction. The at least two planarization layers are disposed on the substrate. The pads are disposed on the at least two planarization layers, and are located in the pixel areas. The pads include at least one first edge pad closest to the first substrate edge. The first dummy pattern is disposed on the at least two planarization layers, and extends in the peripheral area between the at least one first edge pad and the first substrate edge. The light-emitting devices are electrically connected to the pads.

A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate including a main chip region and a remaining scribe lane region surrounding the main chip region, a passivation layer on the main chip region, the passivation layer including a plurality of bridge patterns extending from the main chip region in a first direction across the remaining scribe lane region, a plurality of bump pads exposed by the passivation layer on the main chip region, a plurality of dam structures along edges of the main chip region on the remaining scribe lane region, the plurality of bridge patterns arranged on the plurality of dam structures at a first pitch in the first direction, a seed layer on the plurality of bump pads, and bumps on the seed layer.

The present disclosure provides a method for manufacturing a semiconductor package. The method includes (1) determining a die warpage value under a predetermined temperature range; (2) determining a difference between a density of a top metal and a density of a bottom metal of a substrate according to the die warpage value; and (3) joining the die and the substrate under the predetermined temperature range. The top metal includes all metal layers overlying a middle layer, and the bottom metal includes all metal layers underlying the middle layer. The middle layer includes a core or a metal layer.

A method includes forming an under bump metallization (UBM) layer over a dielectric layer, forming a redistribution structure over the UBM layer, disposing a semiconductor device over the redistribution structure, removing a portion of the dielectric layer to form an opening to expose the UBM layer, and forming a conductive bump in the opening such that the conductive bump is coupled to the UBM layer.

A semiconductor package includes a workpiece with a conductive trace and a chip with a conductive pillar. The chip is attached to the workpiece and a solder joint region is formed between the conductive pillar and the conductive trace. The distance between the conductive pillar and the conductive trace is less than or equal to about 16 μm.