Embodiments include circuitry and circuit elements such as contact arrays for harvesting power and soft connectors and patches for connecting flexible and stretchable soft circuits.

An integrated CMOS-MEMS device includes a first substrate having a CMOS device, a second substrate having a MEMS device, an insulator layer disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate, a dischargeable ground-contact, an electrical bypass structure, and a contrast stress layer. The first substrate includes a conductor that is conductively connecting to the CMOS devices. The electrical bypass structure has a conducting layer conductively connecting this conductor of the first substrate with the dischargeable ground-contact through a process-configurable electrical connection. The contrast stress layer is disposed between the insulator layer and the conducting layer of the electrical bypass structure.

A biosensor system package includes: a transistor structure in a semiconductor layer having a front side and a back side, the transistor structure comprising a channel region; a multi-layer interconnect (MLI) structure on the front side of the semiconductor layer, the transistor structure being electrically connected to the MLI structure; a carrier substrate on the MLI structure; a first through substrate via (TSV) structure extending though the carrier substrate and configured to provide an electrical connection between the MLI structure and a separate die; a buried oxide (BOX) layer on the back side of the semiconductor layer, wherein the buried oxide layer has an opening on the back side of the channel region, and an interface layer covers the back side over the channel region; and a microfluidic channel cap structure attached to the buried oxide layer.

A MEMS transducing apparatus includes a substrate, a conductive pad, a stacked structure of a transducing device, a first polymer layer, a second polymer layer and a third polymer layer. An upper cavity is formed through the substrate. The conductive pad is formed on a first surface of the substrate to cover a first opening of the upper cavity. The stacked structure of the transducing device is formed on the conductive pad. The first polymer layer is formed on the first surface of the substrate. A lower cavity is formed through the first polymer layer. The stacked structure of the transducing device is exposed within the lower cavity. The third polymer layer is formed on a second surface of the substrate to cover a second opening of the upper cavity. The second polymer layer is formed on the first polymer layer to cover a third opening of the lower cavity.

A CMOS-based sensing device includes a substrate including an etched portion and a first region located on the substrate. The first region includes a membrane region formed over an area of the etched portion of the substrate, a flow sensor formed within the membrane region and a pressure sensor formed within the membrane region.

The method comprises fabricating a semiconductor panel comprising a plurality of semiconductor devices, fabricating a cap panel comprising a plurality of caps, bonding the cap panel onto the semiconductor panel so that each one of the caps covers one or more of the semiconductor devices, and singulating the bonded panels into a plurality of semiconductor modules.

The present disclosure relates to a microelectronics package with a vertically stacked structure of a microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) device and a controller device. The MEMS device includes a MEMS component, a MEMS through-via, and a MEMS connecting layer configured to electrically connect the MEMS component with the MEMS through-via. The controller device includes a controlling component, a controller through-via, and a controller connecting layer configured to electrically connect the controlling component with the controller through-via. The controller through-via is in contact with the MEMS through-via, such that the controlling component in the controller device is configured to control the MEMS component in the MEMS device.

An integrated semiconductor device includes: a MEMS structure; an ASIC electronic circuit; and conductive interconnection structures electrically coupling the MEMS structure to the ASIC electronic circuit. The MEMS structure and the ASIC electronic circuit are integrated starting from a same substrate including semiconductor material; wherein the MEMS structure is formed at a first surface of the substrate, and the ASIC electronic circuit is formed at a second surface of the substrate, vertically opposite to the first surface in a direction transverse to a horizontal plane of extension of the first surface and of the second surface.

A biochip packaging structure includes a chip packaging layer, a redistribution layer, and a microfluidic channel. The chip packaging layer includes a resin layer including a biochip and a conductive pillar located on each of two sides of the biochip. The biochip includes a first surface flush with and exposed out of a side of the resin layer. A first end of the conductive pillar is flush with a side of the resin layer opposite the biochip. A second end of the conductive pillar is flush with the first surface of the biochip. The redistribution layer includes a metal winding electrically coupled to the biochip and the adjacent conductive pillar. The metal winding includes a first winding portion coupled to the biochip and a second winding portion coupled between the first winding portion and the conductive pillar. The second winding portion is parallel to the first surface.

In a semiconductor device, a first substrate and a second substrate are bonded to each other through an insulating film. A hermetically sealed chamber is provided between the first substrate and the second substrate, and a sensing part is enclosed in the hermetically sealed chamber. The second substrate has a through hole penetrating in a stacking direction of the first substrate and the second substrate and exposing the first surface of the first substrate. A penetrating electrode is disposed on a wall surface of the through hole of the second substrate, and is electrically connected to the sensing part. A discharge path is provided, at a position located between the hermetically sealed chamber and the through hole for releasing outgas generated during bonding from the hermetically sealed chamber to the through hole.