A power electronic switching device has a substrate facing in a normal direction with a first and a second conductive track, and a power semiconductor component is arranged on the first conductive track by an electrically conductive connection. The power semiconductor component has a laterally surrounding edge and an edge region and a contact region on its first primary side facing away from the substrate, and with a three-dimensionally preformed insulation molding that has an overlap segment, a connection segment and an extension segment, wherein the overlap segment, starting from the edge partially overlaps the edge region of the power semiconductor component.

A method of forming semiconductor devices includes providing a wafer having a first side and second side, electrically conductive pads at the second side, and an electrically insulative layer at the second side with openings to the pads. The first side of the wafer is background to a desired thickness and an electrically conductive layer is deposited thereon. Nickel layers are simultaneously electrolessly deposited over the electrically conductive layer and over the pads, and diffusion barrier layers are then simultaneously deposited over the nickel layers. Another method of forming semiconductor devices includes depositing backmetal (BM) layers on the electrically conductive layer including a titanium layer, a nickel layer, and/or a silver layer. The BM layers are covered with a protective coating and a nickel layer is electrolessly deposited over the pads. A diffusion barrier layer is deposited over the nickel layer over the pads, and the protective coating is removed.

A microelectronic device comprises a memory array region, a control logic region, and an additional control logic region. The memory array region comprises a stack structure comprising vertically alternating conductive structures and insulating structures, and vertically extending strings of memory cells within the stack structure. The control logic region underlies the stack structure and comprises control logic devices configured to effectuate a portion of control operations for the vertically extending strings of memory cells. The additional control logic region overlies the stack structure and comprises additional control logic devices configured to effectuate an additional portion of the control operations for the vertically extending strings of memory cells. Methods of forming a microelectronic device, and additional microelectronic devices and electronic systems are also described.

A semiconductor package is disclosed. The semiconductor package includes a substrate with a first surface, a second surface and sidewalls. The package also includes backside metallization (BSM) over the second surface of the substrate. The semiconductor package is devoid of metal debris.

The present disclosure relates to a radio frequency device that includes a transfer device die and a multilayer redistribution structure underneath the transfer device die. The transfer device die includes a device region with a back-end-of-line (BEOL) portion and a front-end-of-line (FEOL) portion over the BEOL portion and a transfer substrate. The FEOL portion includes isolation sections and an active layer surrounded by the isolation sections. A top surface of the device region is planarized. The transfer substrate resides over the top surface of the device region. Herein, silicon crystal does not exist within the transfer substrate or between the transfer substrate and the active layer. The multilayer redistribution structure includes a number of bump structures, which are at a bottom of the multilayer redistribution structure and electrically coupled to the FEOL portion of the transfer device die.

Embodiments include semiconductor packages and methods to form the semiconductor packages. A semiconductor package includes a plurality of first dies on a substrate, an interface layer over the first dies, a backside metallization (BSM) layer directly on the interface layer, where the BSM layer includes first, second, and third conductive layer, and a heat spreader over the BSM layer. The first conductive layer includes a titanium material. The second conductive layer includes a nickel-vanadium material. The third conductive layer includes a gold material, a silver material, or a copper material. The copper material may include copper bumps. The semiconductor package may include a plurality of second dies on a package substrate. The substrate may be on the package substrate. The second dies may have top surfaces substantially coplanar to top surface of the first dies. The BSM and interface layers may be respectively over the first and second dies.

A transfer printing method is described that can be used for a wide variety of materials, such as to allow for circuits formed of different materials to be integrated together on a single integrated circuit. A tether (18) is formed on dice regions (16) of a first wafer (30), followed by attachment of a second wafer (32) to the tethers. The dice regions (16) are processed so as to be separated, followed by transfer printing of the dice regions to a third wafer (34).

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.

A semiconductor device includes a chip that includes a mounting surface, a non-mounting surface, and a side wall connecting the mounting surface and the non-mounting surface and has an eaves portion protruding further outward than the mounting surface at the side wall and a metal layer that covers the mounting surface.

A method of forming a chip assembly may include forming a plurality of cavities in a carrier; The method may further include arranging a die attach liquid in each of the cavities; arranging a plurality of chips on the die attach liquid, each chip comprising a rear side metallization and a rear side interconnect material disposed over the rear side metallization, wherein the rear side interconnect material faces the carrier; evaporating the die attach liquid; and after the evaporating the die attach liquid, fixing the plurality of chips to the carrier.