Disclosed is a tunable inductor device having a substrate, a planar spiral conductor having a plurality of spaced-apart turns disposed over the substrate, and a phase change switch (PCS) having a patch of a phase change material (PCM) disposed over the substrate between and in contact with a pair of adjacent segments of the plurality of spaced-apart turns, wherein the patch of the PCM is electrically insulating in an amorphous state and electrically conductive in a crystalline state. The PCS further includes a thermal element disposed adjacent to the patch of PCM, wherein the thermal element is configured to maintain the patch of the PCM to within a first temperature range until the patch of the PCM converts to the amorphous state and maintain the patch of the PCM within a second temperature range until the first patch of PCM converts to the crystalline state.

A non-conductive encapsulation cover is mounted on a support face of a support substrate to delimit, with the support substrate, an internal housing. An integrated circuit chip is mounted to the support substrate within the internal housing. A metal pattern is mounted to an internal wall of the non-conductive encapsulation cover in a position facing the support face. At least two U-shaped metal wires are provided within the internal housing, located to a side of the integrated circuit chip, and fixed at one end to the metallic pattern and at another end to the support face.

One example discloses a circuit package, including: wherein the circuit package is configured to include a circuit; a brick having a first set of vias and a second set of vias; wherein the first set of vias are configured to be filled with a first material; wherein a first end of the first material is configured to be electrically coupled to the circuit; wherein a second end of the material is configured to form an electrical terminal on an external surface of the circuit package; and wherein the second set of vias are configured to be filled with a second material different from the first material.

Aspects and embodiments disclosed herein include a semiconductor device comprising a metal-insulator-metal capacitor having a capacitance. The metal-insulator-metal capacitor comprises a plurality of metal-insulator-metal capacitors coupled in parallel, each metal-insulator-metal capacitor of the plurality of metal-insulator-metal capacitors having a top plate, a bottom plate, and a corresponding capacitance, and a plurality of bottom contacts, at least one of the plurality of bottom contacts arranged between a pair of directly adjacent metal-insulator-metal capacitors of the plurality of metal-insulator-metal capacitors. Also disclosed are antennaplexers, electronic device modules, and electronic devices including aspects and embodiments of the semiconductor device.

A semiconductor device has a substrate and encapsulant deposited over the substrate. An electrical connector is disposed over the substrate outside the encapsulant. An antenna can be formed over the substrate. A first shielding material is disposed over a portion of the encapsulant without covering the electrical connector with the first shielding material. The first shielding material is disposed over the portion of the encapsulant and the portion of the substrate using a direct jet printer. A cover is disposed over the electrical connector. A second shielding material is disposed over the encapsulant to prevent the second shielding material from reaching the electrical connector. The second shielding material overlaps the first shielding material and covers a side surface of the encapsulant and a side surface of the substrate. The cover is removed to expose the electrical connector free of shielding material.

A method of fabricating an electronic device including fabricating a multilevel package substrate with first, second, third, and fourth levels, a semiconductor die mounted to the first level, and fabricating a conductor backed coplanar waveguide transmission line feed with an interconnect and a conductor, the interconnect including coplanar first, second, and third conductive lines extending in the first level along a first direction from respective ends to an antenna, the second and third conductive lines spaced apart from opposite sides of the first conductive line along an orthogonal second direction, and the conductor extending in the third level under the interconnect and under the antenna.

A package substrate is disclosed. The package substrate includes a die package in the package substrate located at least partially underneath a location of a power delivery interface in a die that is coupled to the surface of the package substrate. Connection terminals are accessible on a surface of the die package to provide connection to the die that is coupled to the surface of the package substrate. Metal-insulator-metal layers inside the die package are coupled to the connection terminals.

The present invention provides a waveguide photodetector integrated with an antenna, a system, and a method for sending a signal. The waveguide photodetector integrated with an antenna includes: a photodetector, N optical waveguides and an antenna, where N is a positive integer; the antenna is disposed on a substrate, and a feed gap is formed on a central axis of two arms of the antenna, the photodetector being disposed in the feed gap; and the N optical waveguides are formed on the substrate, and the photodetector is connected to the optical waveguides to obtain modulated optical signals transmitted from the optical waveguides. According to the present invention, the feed gap is formed on a central axis of two arms of the antenna, and the photodetector is disposed in the feed gap, such that the antenna and the photodetector can be integrated on a same device of a same chip, thereby improving the integration level of an optical integrated circuit and system.

A fan-out wafer level packaging (FOWLP) unit which includes a substrate, a first dielectric layer, at least one antenna, at least one die, a second dielectric layer, at least one conductive pillar, a plurality of first conductive circuits, a third dielectric layer, a plurality of second conductive circuits, and an outer protective layer is provided. The first conductive circuits and the second conductive circuits are produced by filling a metal paste into slots and grinding the metal paste. The die is electrically connected with the antenna. The die is electrically connected to the outside through bonding pads around a chip area on a second surface of the die. Thereby the FOWLP unit is formed and problems of the FOWLP module or technology available now generated during manufacturing of the respective conductive circuits including higher manufacturing cost and less environmental benefit can be solved.

RF transistor amplifiers include an RF transistor amplifier die having a Group III nitride-based semiconductor layer structure and a plurality of gate terminals, a plurality of drain terminals, and at least one source terminal that are each on an upper surface of the semiconductor layer structure, an interconnect structure on an upper surface of the RF transistor amplifier die, and a coupling element between the RF transistor amplifier die and the interconnect structure that electrically connects the gate terminals, the drain terminals and the source terminal to the interconnect structure.