Abstract:
A leveling-bonding method and an apparatus for performing the same are provided. The method includes providing a bond support for supporting a wafer; providing a bond head over the bond support; dispatching a foil over the wafer; placing the wafer on the bond support; and using the bond support and the bond head to apply a force on the foil and the wafer.
Abstract:
A method is provided for controlling substrate thickness. At least one etchant is dispensed from at least one dispenser to a plurality of different locations on a surface of a spinning substrate to perform etching. A thickness of the spinning substrate is monitored at the plurality of locations, so that the thickness of the substrate is monitored at each individual location while dispensing the etchant at that location. A respective amount of etching performed at each individual location is controlled, based on the respective monitored thickness at that location.
Abstract:
A through via process is performed on a semiconductor substrate with a contact plug formed in an interlayer dielectric (ILD), and then a via plug is formed in the ILD layer to extend through a portion of the semiconductor substrate, followed forming an interconnection structure electrically connected with the contact plug and the via plug.
Abstract:
The present disclosure provides a bonding apparatus. The bonding apparatus includes a cleaning module designed for cleaning chips; and a chip-to-wafer bonding chamber configured to receive the chips from the cleaning module and designed for bonding the chips to a wafer.
Abstract:
A semiconductor device structure for a three-dimensional integrated circuit is provided. The semiconductor device structure includes: a substrate having a first surface and a second surface; a via defined in the substrate and extending from the first surface to the second surface; and a first plurality of contact structures on the first surface contacting the via. A cross section of each of the first plurality of contact structures parallel to the first surface has a first side and a second side, and a ratio of the longer side to the shorter side of the first side and the second side is more than about 2:1.
Abstract:
A method for providing a stacked wafer configuration is provided. The method includes bonding a first wafer to a second wafer. A filler material is applied in a gap formed along edges of the first wafer and the second wafer. The filler material provides support along the edges during a thinning and transportation process to help reduce cracking or chipping. The filler material may be cured to reduce any bubbling that may have occurred while applying the filler material. Thereafter, the second wafer may be thinned by grinding, plasma etching, wet etching, or the like. In some embodiments of the present invention, this process may be repeated multiple times to create a stacked wafer configuration having three or more stacked wafers.
Abstract:
The embodiments described provide apparatus and methods for bonding wafers to carriers with the surface contours of plates facing the substrates or carriers are modified either by re-shaping, by using height adjusters, by adding shim(s), or by zoned temperature control. The modified surface contours of such plates compensate the effects that may cause the non-planarity of bonded substrates.
Abstract:
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor substrate structure for use in a semiconductor substrate stack system is presented. The method includes a semiconductor substrate which includes a front-face, a backside, a bulk layer, an interconnect layer that includes a plurality of inter-metal dielectric layers sandwiched between conductive layers, a contact layer that is between the bulk layer and the interconnect layer, and a TSV structure commencing between the bulk layer and the contact layer and terminating at the backside of the substrate. The TSV structure is electrically coupled to the interconnect layer and the TSV structure is electrically coupled to a bonding pad on the backside.
Abstract:
Through substrate via barrier structures and methods are disclosed. In one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes a first substrate including an active device region disposed within isolation regions. A through substrate via is disposed adjacent to the active device region and within the first substrate. A buffer layer is disposed around at least a portion of the through substrate via, wherein the buffer layer is disposed between the isolation regions and the through substrate via.
Abstract:
A thin wafer protection device includes a wafer having a plurality of semiconductor chips. The wafer has a first side and an opposite second side. A plurality of dies is over the first side of the wafer, and at least one of the plurality of dies is bonded to at least one of the plurality of semiconductor chips. A wafer carrier is over the second side of the wafer. An encapsulating layer is over the first side of the wafer and the plurality of dies, and the encapsulating layer has a planar top surface. An adhesive tape is over the planar top surface of the encapsulating layer.