A semiconductor die includes a semiconductor substrate, an interconnect structure, and a conductive bump. The interconnect structure is disposed on and electrically connected to the semiconductor substrate. The interconnect structure includes stacked interconnect layers. Each of the stacked interconnect layers includes a dielectric layer and an interconnect wiring embedded in the dielectric layer. The interconnect wiring of a first interconnect layer among the stacked interconnect layers further includes a first via and second vias. The first via electrically connected to the interconnect wiring. The second vias connected to the interconnect wiring, and the first via and the second vias are located on a same level height. The conductive bump is disposed on the interconnect structure. The conductive bump includes a base portion and a protruding portion connected to the base portion, and the base portion is between the protruding portion and the first via.

The present disclosure relates to an electronic device comprising a wafer comprising a first upper surface having at least one first contact arranged thereon; and at least one die comprising a second upper surface having at least one second contact arranged thereon, and at least one first lateral surface orthogonal to the second upper surface, said first contact being coupled to said second contact by a connector comprising one first conductive pillar formed on said first contact of said wafer; one second conductive pillar formed on said second contact of said die; and at least one conductive ball positioned in contact with at least a first upper portion of said first pillar(s) and in contact with at least one second upper portion of said second pillar(s).

Embodiments disclosed herein include electronic packages and methods of forming such electronic packages. In an embodiment, an electronic package comprises a plurality of stacked layers. In an embodiment, a first trace is on a first layer, wherein the first trace has a first thickness. In an embodiment, a second trace is on the first layer, wherein the second trace has a second thickness that is greater than the first thickness. In an embodiment, a second layer is over the first trace and the second trace.

A method includes forming a transistor over a front side of a substrate, in which the transistor comprises a channel region, a gate region over the channel region, and source/drain regions on opposite sides of the gate region; forming a front-side interconnect structure over the transistor, wherein the front-side interconnect structure includes a dielectric layer and conductive features; and bonding the front-side interconnect structure to a carrier substrate via a bonding layer, in which the bonding layer is between the front-side interconnect structure and the carrier substrate, and the bonding layer has a higher thermal conductivity than the dielectric layer of the front-side interconnect structure.

A semiconductor device has a semiconductor substrate and first insulating layer formed over the surface of the semiconductor substrate. A dummy via is formed through the first insulating layer. A second insulating layer is formed over the first insulating layer to fill the dummy via. A first conductive layer is formed over the second insulating layer. A bump is formed over the first conductive layer adjacent to the dummy via filled with the second insulating layer. A second conductive layer is formed over a surface of the semiconductor substrate. The dummy via filled with the second insulating layer relieves stress on the second conductive layer. A plurality of dummy vias filled with the second insulating layer can be formed within a designated via formation area. A plurality of dummy vias filled with the second insulating layer can be formed in a pattern.

A method includes forming a seed layer on a substrate. The seed layer includes a first metal. The method also includes forming a first metal layer over the seed layer. The first metal layer includes a second metal. The method further includes forming a second metal layer over the first metal layer. The second metal layer includes the first metal. The method includes converting at least a portion of the first metal layer into an alloy of the first metal and the second metal. The seed layer is then etched.

A semiconductor package includes a first semiconductor chip including a first semiconductor substrate, and a first upper pad arranged on an upper surface of the first semiconductor substrate, a first polymer layer arranged on the upper surface of the first semiconductor substrate, a second semiconductor chip mounted on the first semiconductor chip, the second semiconductor chip including a second semiconductor substrate and a second lower pad arranged under a lower surface of the second semiconductor substrate, wherein the first polymer layer has a horizontal width in a direction crossing the first polymer layer in a center region of the second semiconductor chip, as a first length, and has a horizontal width in a direction crossing two corner regions of the first polymer layer in corner regions of the second semiconductor chip, as a second length, wherein the second length is greater than the first length.

Light-emitting diode (LED) devices and more particularly die attach structures for LED chips on lead frames in LED packages are disclosed. Exemplary lead frame structures are provided with selectively plated metal layers at die attach regions for LED chips. The metal of the selectively plated metal layers is positioned to form alloys and/or intermetallic compounds with bonding materials employed for die attach of LED chips. The resulting alloys and/or intermetallic compounds form non-reflowable metal structures at and above temperatures utilized for subsequent attachment of LED packages in LED devices, thereby providing increased mechanical and electrical integrity of die attach for LED chips.

Microelectronic assemblies may include through-assembly conductive vias of varying depth to couple dies or die stacks with one another via a bridge die and/or substrate. In one example, an assembly includes an interconnect structure (e.g., a bridge die) including conductive contacts on a first side and one or more integrated circuit (IC) structures bonded with a second side, where an IC structure includes one or more dies. The assembly may include a first conductive via with a first bottom end in the interconnect structure and a first top end opposite the first bottom end, and a second conductive via with a second bottom end in the interconnect structure and a second top end opposite the second bottom end, where the first top end is in a first plane and the second top end is in a second plane that is different from the first plane.

The present disclosure provides a package structure. The package structure includes: a first die having a front surface and a back surface opposite to the front surface; and a first thermal management structure over the back surface. The first thermal management structure includes: a first copper-phosphorous alloy layer thermally coupled to and covering an entirety of the back surface of the first die.