A packaged semiconductor structure includes an interconnect layer and a first microelectronic device on a first major surface of the interconnect layer. The structure also includes a substrate having a cavity, wherein the cavity is defined by a vertical portion and a horizontal portion, wherein the vertical portion surrounds the first device, the horizontal portion is over the first device, and the first device is between the horizontal portion and the first major surface of the interconnect layer such that the first device is in the cavity. The structure further includes a second microelectronic device attached to the horizontal portion of the substrate, and encapsulant on the interconnect layer and surrounding the first device, the substrate, and the second device, such that the substrate is embedded in the encapsulant.

A semiconductor structure includes a packaged semiconductor device having at least one device, a conductive pillar, an encapsulant over the at least one device and surrounding the conductive pillar, wherein the conductive pillar extends from a first major surface to a second major surface of the encapsulant, and is exposed at the second major surface and the at least one device is exposed at the first major surface. The packaged device also includes a conductive shield layer on the second major surface of the encapsulant and on minor surfaces of the encapsulant and an isolation region at the second major surface of the encapsulant between the encapsulant and the conductive pillar such that the conductive shield layer is electrically isolated from the conductive pillar. The semiconductor structure also includes a radio-frequency connection structure over and in electrical contact with the conductive pillar at the second major surface of the encapsulant.

A method of forming a package structure includes: forming an inductor comprising a through-via over a carrier; placing a semiconductor device over the carrier; molding the semiconductor device and the through-via in a molding material; and forming a first redistribution layer on the molding material, wherein the inductor and the semiconductor device are electrically connected by the first redistribution layer.

A wireless transmission module, chips, a passive component, and a coil are integrated into an integral structure, so that an integration level of the wireless transmission module is improved. In addition, the integral structure can effectively implement independence of the module, and the independent module can be flexibly arranged inside structural design of an electronic device, and does not need to be disposed on a mainboard of the electronic device. Only an input terminal of the wireless transmission module needs to be retained on the mainboard of the electronic device. In addition, the integral structure can further effectively increase a capability of a product for working continuously and normally in an extremely harsh scenario, and improve product reliability. In addition, in the structure of the wireless transmission module, the chips and the coil are integrated, and signal transmission paths between the chips and the coil are relatively short.

A semiconductor package includes a semiconductor chip including an electrode pad formed on the top surface thereof, a passive device embedded in the semiconductor package, the passive device having no functional electrode on the top surface thereof, a cover layer covering the semiconductor chip and the passive device, and at least one electrode pattern formed on the cover layer to transmit electrical signals. The cover layer includes at least one first opening formed to expose a region in which the functional electrode is to be formed. The electrode pattern includes a functional electrode portion formed in a region in which the functional electrode of the passive device is to be formed through the first opening. In the process of forming the electrode pattern, a functional electrode of the passive device is formed together therewith, thereby eliminating a separate step of manufacturing a functional electrode and thus reducing manufacturing costs.

A method of manufacturing a packaged semiconductor device is provided. The method includes placing a plurality of semiconductor die on a carrier substrate. The plurality of semiconductor die and an exposed portion of the carrier substrate are encapsulated with an encapsulant. A cooling fixture includes a plurality of nozzles and is placed over the encapsulant. The encapsulant is cooled by way of air exiting the plurality of nozzles. A property of air exiting a first nozzle of the plurality of nozzles is different from that of a second nozzle of the plurality of nozzles.

Disclosed embodiments include composite-bridge die-to-die interconnects that are on a die side of an integrated-circuit package substrate and that contacts two IC dice and a passive device that is in a molding material, where the molding material also contacts the two IC dice.

An antenna apparatus includes: a feed line; a first ground layer including surface disposed above or below the feed line and spaced apart from the feed line; and an antenna pattern electrically connected to an end of the feed line and configured to transmit and/or receive a radio frequency (RF) signal, wherein the first ground layer includes a first protruding region protruding in a first longitudinal direction of the surface toward the antenna pattern and at least partially overlapping the feed line above or below the feed line, and second and third protruding regions protruding in the first longitudinal direction from positions spaced apart from the first protruding region in opposite lateral directions of the surface.

A semiconductor package including at least one functional die; at least one dummy die free of active circuit, wherein the dummy die comprises at least one metal-insulator-metal (MIM) capacitor; and a redistribution layer (RDL) structure interconnecting the MIM capacitor to the at least one functional die.

A semiconductor package includes a first layer including a semiconductor die embedded within a dielectric substrate, and a first set of metal pillars extending through the dielectric substrate, a second layer stacked on the first layer, the second layer including a metal trace patterned on the dielectric substrate of the first layer, a passive component including at least one capacitor or resistor electrically coupled to the metal trace, and a second set of metal pillars extending from the metal trace to an opposing side of the second layer, and a third layer stacked on the second layer, the third layer including at least one inductor electrically coupled to metal pillars of the second set of metal pillars.