RADIOFREQUENCY DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF
20200075514 ยท 2020-03-05
Inventors
Cpc classification
H01L2224/13024
ELECTRICITY
H01L2224/0401
ELECTRICITY
H01L2924/00014
ELECTRICITY
H01L2224/81193
ELECTRICITY
H01L23/481
ELECTRICITY
H01L2924/00014
ELECTRICITY
H01L2224/16225
ELECTRICITY
H01L21/76243
ELECTRICITY
H01L23/5226
ELECTRICITY
H01L2221/68377
ELECTRICITY
International classification
H01L23/522
ELECTRICITY
H01L23/48
ELECTRICITY
H01L21/762
ELECTRICITY
Abstract
A radiofrequency device includes a buried insulation layer, a transistor, a contact structure, a connection bump, an interlayer dielectric layer, and a mold compound layer. The buried insulation layer has a first side and a second side opposite to the first side in a thickness direction of the buried insulation layer. The transistor is disposed on the first side of the buried insulation layer. The contact structure penetrates the buried insulation layer and is electrically connected with the transistor. The connection bump is disposed on the second side of the buried insulation layer and electrically connected with the contact structure. The interlayer dielectric layer is disposed on the first side of the buried insulation layer and covers the transistor. The mold compound layer is disposed on the interlayer dielectric layer. The mold compound layer may be used to improve operation performance and reduce manufacturing cost of the radiofrequency device.
Claims
1. A radiofrequency (RF) device, comprising: a buried insulation layer, wherein the buried insulation layer has a first side and a second side opposite to the first side in a thickness direction of the buried insulation layer; a transistor disposed on the first side of the buried insulation layer; a contact structure penetrating the buried insulation layer and electrically connected with the transistor; a connection bump disposed on the second side of the buried insulation layer and electrically connected with the contact structure; an interlayer dielectric layer disposed on the first side of the buried insulation layer and covering the transistor; and a mold compound layer disposed on the interlayer dielectric layer.
2. The RF device according to claim 1, wherein the interlayer dielectric layer is disposed between the mold compound layer and the buried insulation layer.
3. The RF device according to claim 1, wherein the mold compound layer comprises a polymer-based material, a resin-based material, an epoxy material, or benzocyclobutene.
4. The RF device according to claim 1, wherein a resistivity of the mold compound layer is greater than 20,000 ohm-cm.
5. The RF device according to claim 1, wherein the mold compound layer comprises a curable material coated on the interlayer dielectric layer.
6. The RF device according to claim 1, further comprising: an interconnection structure disposed in the interlayer dielectric layer and electrically connected with the transistor.
7. The RF device according to claim 6, wherein the contact structure is electrically connected with the transistor via the interconnection structure.
8. The RF device according to claim 7, further comprising: an isolation structure disposed on the first side of the buried insulation layer and surrounding a part of the transistor, wherein the contact structure further penetrates the isolation structure for being electrically connected with the interconnection structure.
9. The RF device according to claim 1, wherein the contact structure directly contacts the transistor.
10. The RF device according to claim 1, further comprising: a conductive layer disposed on the second side of the buried insulation layer, wherein the connection bump is disposed on the conductive layer, and the connection bump is electrically connected with the contact structure via the conductive layer.
11. A manufacturing method of a radiofrequency (RF) device, comprising: forming a transistor on a first side of a buried insulation layer; forming an interlayer dielectric layer on the first side of the buried insulation layer, wherein the interlayer dielectric layer covers the transistor; forming a mold compound layer on the interlayer dielectric layer; forming a contact structure penetrating the buried insulation layer and electrically connected with the transistor after forming the mold compound layer; and forming a connection bump on a second side of the buried insulation layer, wherein the connection bump is electrically connected with the contact structure, and the second side is opposite to the first side in a thickness direction of the buried insulation layer.
12. The manufacturing method of the RF device according to claim 11, wherein the step of forming the mold compound layer comprises a coating process.
13. The manufacturing method of the RF device according to claim 11, further comprising: performing a planarization process to the mold compound layer before the step of forming the contact structure.
14. The manufacturing method of the RF device according to claim 11, wherein the mold compound layer comprises a polymer-based material, a resin-based material, an epoxy material, or benzocyclobutene.
15. The manufacturing method of the RF device according to claim 11, wherein a resistivity of the mold compound layer is greater than 20,000 ohm-cm.
16. The manufacturing method of the RF device according to claim 11, further comprising: forming an interconnection structure in the interlayer dielectric layer before the step of forming the mold compound layer, wherein the interconnection structure is electrically connected with the transistor, and the contact structure is electrically connected with the transistor via the interconnection structure.
17. The manufacturing method of the RF device according to claim 16, further comprising: forming an isolation structure on the first side of the buried insulation layer, the isolation structure surrounding a part of the transistor, wherein the contact structure further penetrates the isolation structure for being electrically connected with the interconnection structure.
18. The manufacturing method of the RF device according to claim 11, wherein the contact structure directly contacts the transistor.
19. The manufacturing method of the RF device according to claim 11, further comprising: forming a conductive layer on the second side of the buried insulation layer, wherein the connection bump is formed on the conductive layer, and the connection bump is electrically connected with the contact structure via the conductive layer.
20. The manufacturing method of the RF device according to claim 11, wherein a substrate is located on the second side of the buried oxide layer during the step of forming the mold compound layer, and the substrate is removed before the step of forming the contact structure.
Description
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
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[0012] In the following description, numerous embodiments are set forth in order to disclose specific features of the present invention, but not limited thereto. For one of ordinary skill in the related art, it should be understood that when an element such as a region, a layer, or a portion is referred to as being formed on another element, it can be directly, formed on the given element, or intervening elements may be present. However, when an element is described to be directly formed on another element, there is not any intervening element. Additionally, when an element is referred to as being formed on another element, the element may be formed on the given element by growth, deposition, etch, attach, connect, couple, or other approaches.
[0013] Additionally, terms, such as bottom, below, above, top, and the like, may be used herein for ease of description to describe one element or feature's relationship to another element(s) or feature(s) as illustrated in the figures. It will be understood that spatially relative terms are intended to encompass different orientations of the device in use or operation in addition to the orientations depicted in the figures. For example, if the device in the figures in turned over, elements described as below or beneath can encompass both an orientation of above and below. The device may be otherwise oriented and the spatially relative descriptors used herein interpreted accordingly.
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[0015] In some embodiments, the mold compound layer 70A may include a polymer-based material, a resin-based material, an epoxy material, benzocyclobutene (BCB), polyimide (PI), silicon oxide, or other suitable insulation materials having high electrical resistivity and/or low dielectric constant. For example, the electrical resistivity of the mold compound layer 70A may be greater than 20,000 ohm-cm for improving the operation performance, such as harmonic performance, of the radiofrequency device 101, but not limited thereto. In some embodiments, the mold compound layer 70A may include a curable material 70 coated on the interlayer dielectric layer 60, and the curable material 70 may include the insulation materials described above and required additives and/or other suitable insulation materials. The curing approach of the curable material 70 may include photo curing, thermal curing, or other suitable curing approaches, and the method for coating the curable material 70 may include spin coating, spray coating, slit coating, or other suitable coating approaches, but not limited thereto. In some embodiments, the mold compound layer 70A may also be formed on the interlayer dielectric layer 60 by other suitable methods and/or other suitable materials.
[0016] In some embodiments, the radiofrequency device 101 may further include an interconnection structure CS disposed in the interlayer dielectric layer 60 and electrically connected with the transistor T. For example, in some embodiments, the transistor T may include a semiconductor layer 30, a source doped region 32, a drain doped region 33, a gate dielectric layer 51, and a gate structure 52. The interconnection structure CS may include a first interconnection structure CS1, a second interconnection structure CS2, and a third interconnection structure CS3 electrically connected with the gate structure 52, the source doped region 32, and the drain doped region 33 respectively, but not limited thereto. In some embodiments, the buried insulation layer 20 and the semiconductor layer 30 may be an insulation layer and a semiconductor layer in a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) substrate respectively, the buried insulation layer 20 may include a buried oxide insulation layer, and the semiconductor layer may include a silicon-containing semiconductor material accordingly, but not limited thereto. In some embodiments, the buried insulation layer 20 maybe formed by other insulation materials and/or the semiconductor layer 30 may be formed by other semiconductor materials according to other considerations. In addition, the interlayer dielectric layer 60 may include multiple layers of dielectric material, such as silicon oxide, silicon oxynitride, or other suitable dielectric materials.
[0017] When the buried insulation layer 20 and the semiconductor layer 30 are the insulation layer and the semiconductor layer in the SOI substrate respectively, the first side S1 of the buried insulation layer 20 may be regarded as a front side, and the second side S2 of the buried insulation layer 20 may be regarded as a back side, but not limited thereto. The transistor T is disposed on the first side S1 of the buried insulation layer 20, the gate dielectric layer 51 may be disposed between the gate structure 52 and the semiconductor layer 30, and the semiconductor layer 30 may be disposed between the gate dielectric layer 51 and the buried insulation layer 20, but not limited thereto. In some embodiments, the transistor T may also have a structure different from the structure described above and/or the allocation of the parts in the transistor T may be different from the condition described above according to some considerations. In some embodiments, the gate structure 52 may include a non-metal gate such as a polysilicon gate, a non-metal gate formed by other suitable conductive materials, or a metal gate. The gate dielectric layer 51 may include an oxide layer such as a silicon oxide layer or other suitable dielectric materials such as a high dielectric constant (high-k) dielectric material. In addition, the semiconductor layer 30 may include a body region 31 disposed between the gate structure 52 and the buried insulation layer 20 in the thickness direction Z of the buried insulation layer 20, and the body region 31 may include a channel region of the transistor T, but not limited thereto. The source doped region 32 and the drain doped region 33 may be disposed in the semiconductor layer 30 at two opposite sides of the gate structure 52 respectively. In some embodiments, the source doped region 32 and the drain doped region 33 may be doped regions including N type dopants such as phosphorus and arsenic, and the body region 31 may include a well such as a P well, but not limited thereto. In some embodiments, the source doped region 32 and the drain doped region 33 may also be formed by other kinds of N type dopants or dopants with other conductivity types.
[0018] In some embodiments, the first interconnection structure CS1, the second interconnection structure CS2, and the third interconnection structure CS3 may respectively include a plurality of plugs (such as a first plug 61 and a second plug 63 shown in
[0019] In some embodiments, the contact structure BC may be electrically connected with the transistor T via the interconnection structure CS. For instance, the contact structure BC may penetrates the buried insulation layer 20, the isolation structure 40, and a part of the interlayer dielectric layer 60 for contacting the first metal layer 62 in the third interconnection structure CS3 and forming the electrical connection. Therefore, the contact structure BC may be electrically connected with the drain doped region 33 in the transistor T via the third interconnection structure CS3 in the interconnection structure CS, but not limited thereto. The contact structure BC may penetrate the buried insulation layer 20 from the back side (i.e. the second side S2) to the front side (i.e. the first side S1) of the buried insulation layer 20 for being electrically connected with the transistor T, and the contact structure BC may be regarded as aback side contact structure, but not limited thereto. The contact structure may be formed by a barrier layer 81 and a conductive material 82. The barrier layer 81 may include titanium nitride, tantalum nitride, or other suitable barrier materials, and the conductive material 82 may include conductive materials having relatively lower electrical resistivity, such as copper, aluminum, and tungsten, but not limited thereto.
[0020] In some embodiments, the radiofrequency device 101 may further include a conductive layer (such as a first conductive layer 83 shown in
[0021] In the radiofrequency device 101, the contact structure BC may penetrate the buried insulation layer 20 from the second side S2 of the buried insulation layer 20 away from the semiconductor layer 30 and be electrically connected with the transistor T. The interlayer dielectric layer 60 maybe disposed on the first side S1 of the buried insulation layer 20 and cover the transistor T. The mold compound layer 70A disposed on the interlayer dielectric layer 60 may be used to replace a high resistance substrate used in a manufacturing process of the radiofrequency device 101 for reducing the manufacturing cost and improving the operation performance of the radiofrequency device 101.
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[0023] Specifically, the manufacturing method of the radiofrequency device 101 in this embodiment may include but is not limited to the following steps. As shown in
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[0027] The following description will detail the different embodiments of the present invention. To simplify the description, identical components in each of the following embodiments are marked with identical symbols. For making it easier to understand the differences between the embodiments, the following description will detail the dissimilarities among different embodiments and the identical features will not be redundantly described.
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[0030] To summarize the above descriptions, in the radiofrequency device and the manufacturing method thereof in the present invention, the mold compound layer may be formed on the interlayer dielectric layer after the steps of forming the interlayer dielectric layer and the interconnection structure, and the mold compound layer may be used to replace the expensive high resistance substrate in the manufacturing process for reducing the manufacturing cost of the radiofrequency device and improving the operation performance of the radiofrequency device.
[0031] Those skilled in the art will readily observe that numerous modifications and alterations of the device and method may be made while retaining the teachings of the invention. Accordingly, the above disclosure should be construed as limited only by the metes and bounds of the appended claims.