Abstract:
A method of forming electrical connections to a semiconductor wafer. A semiconductor wafer comprising an insulation layer is provided. The insulation layer has a surface. A patterned mask layer is formed over the surface of the insulation layer. The patterned mask layer exposes portions of the surface of the insulation layer through a plurality of holes. The portions of the plurality of holes are filled with a metal material comprising copper to form elongated columns of the metal material. The elongated columns of the metal material have a sidewall surface. The patterned mask layer is removed to expose the sidewall surface of the elongated columns of the metal material. A protection layer is formed on the exposed sidewall surface of the elongated columns of the metal material.
Abstract:
The present disclosure provides a method of fabricating a semiconductor device that includes forming a high-k dielectric over a substrate, forming a first metal layer over the high-k dielectric, forming a second metal layer over the first metal layer, forming a first silicon layer over the second metal layer, implanting a plurality of ions into the first silicon layer and the second metal layer overlying a first region of the substrate, forming a second silicon layer over the first silicon layer, patterning a first gate structure over the first region and a second gate structure over a second region, performing an annealing process that causes the second metal layer to react with the first silicon layer to form a silicide layer in the first and second gate structures, respectively, and driving the ions toward an interface of the first metal layer and the high-k dielectric in the first gate structure.
Abstract:
A method of a semiconductor package includes providing a substrate having a conductive trace coated with an organic solderability preservative (OSP) layer, removing the OSP layer from the conductive trace, and then coupling a chip to the substrate to form a semiconductor package.
Abstract:
A copper post is formed in a passivation layer to electrically connect an underlying bond pad region, and extends to protrude from the passivation layer. A protection layer is formed on a sidewall surface or a top surface of the copper post in a self-aligned manner. The protection layer is a manganese-containing oxide layer, a manganese-containing nitride layer or a manganese-containing oxynitride layer.
Abstract:
The described embodiments of mechanisms of forming a package on package (PoP) structure involve bonding with connectors with non-solder metal balls to a packaging substrate. The non-solder metal balls may include a solder coating layer. The connectors with non-solder metal balls can maintain substantially the shape of the connectors and control the height of the bonding structures between upper and lower packages. The connectors with non-solder metal balls are also less likely to result in bridging between connectors or disconnection (or cold joint) of bonded connectors. As a result, the pitch of the connectors with non-solder metal balls can be kept small.
Abstract:
A method of forming wafer-level chip scale packaging solder bumps on a wafer substrate involves cleaning the surface of the solder bumps using a laser to remove any residual molding compound from the surface of the solder bumps after the solder bumps are reflowed and a liquid molding compound is applied and cured.
Abstract:
A semiconductor device includes a barrier layer between a solder bump and a post-passivation interconnect (PPI) layer. The barrier layer is formed of at least one of an electroless nickel (Ni) layer, an electroless palladium (Pd) layer or an immersion gold (Au) layer.
Abstract:
A method of forming an integrated circuit is provided. The method includes forming a gate electrode of an NMOS transistor over a substrate by a gate-first process. A gate electrode of a PMOS transistor is formed over the substrate by a gate-last process.
Abstract:
A copper pillar bump has a sidewall protection layer formed of an electrolytic metal layer. The electrolytic metal layer is an electrolytic nickel layer, an electrolytic gold layer, and electrolytic copper layer, or an electrolytic silver layer.
Abstract:
The embodiments described above provide mechanisms for forming metal bumps on metal pads with testing pads on a packaged integrated circuit (IC) chip. A passivation layer is formed to cover the testing pads and possibly portions of metal pads. The passivation layer does not cover surfaces away from the testing pad region and the metal pad region. The limited covering of the testing pads and the portions of the metal pads by the passivation layer reduces interface resistance for a UBM layer formed between the metal pads and the metal bumps. Such reduction of interface resistance leads to the reduction of resistance of the metal bumps.