Abstract:
An electronic substrate may be fabricated by forming a base substrate and forming an inductor extending through the base substrate, wherein the inductor includes a magnetic material layer and a barrier layer, such that the barrier layer prevents the magnetic material layer from leaching into plating solutions during the fabrication of the electronic substrate. In one embodiment, the barrier material may comprise titanium. In another embodiment, the barrier layer may comprise a polymeric material. In still another embodiment, the barrier layer may comprise a nitride material layer. The inductor may further include a plating seed layer on the barrier layer and a conductive fill material abutting the plating seed layer.
Abstract:
An integrated circuit structure may be formed having a first integrated circuit device, a second integrated circuit device electrically coupled to the first integrated circuit device with a plurality of device-to-device interconnects, and at least one jumping drops vapor chamber between the first integrated circuit device and the second integrated circuit device wherein at least one device-to-device interconnect of the plurality of device-to-device interconnects extends through the jumping drops vapor chamber. In one embodiment, the integrated circuit structure may include three or more integrated circuit devices with at least two jumping drops vapor chambers disposed between the three or more integrated circuit devices. In a further embodiment, the two jumping drops chambers may be in fluid communication with one another.
Abstract:
An integrated circuit structure may be fabricated to include a dam structure to contain a thermal interface material between a back surface of an integrated circuit device and a heat dissipation device. The use of the dam structure may significantly reduce pump-out of the thermal interface material during assembly and/or operation, and, thus, may prevent the formation of air-gaps, which can increase thermal resistance.
Abstract:
A microelectronic package may be fabricated with a microelectronic substrate, a microelectronic die electrically attached to the microelectronic substrate, and an electromagnetic interference shield layer contacting one or both of the microelectronic substrate and the microelectronic die, wherein the electromagnetic interference shield layer has an electrical conductivity between about 10,000 siemens per meter and 100,000 siemens per meter. The specific range of electrical conductivity results in electromagnetic fields either generated by the microelectronic die or generated by components external to the microelectronic package scattering within the electromagnetic interference shield layer and attenuating. Thus, the electromagnetic interference shield layer can prevent electromagnetic field interference without the need to be grounded.
Abstract:
A microelectronic package may be fabricated with at least one compliant external bond pad having at least one integrated spring structure for mitigating the effects of warpage of the microelectronic package during attachment to an external substrate. An embodiment for the microelectronic package may include a microelectronic package substrate having a first surface and an opposing second surface, wherein the microelectronic package substrate includes a void defined therein that extends into the microelectronic package substrate from the second surface thereof, and a compliant bond pad suspended over the void, wherein the compliant bond pad includes a land portion and at least one spring portion, and wherein the at least one spring portion extends from the compliant bond pad land portion to an anchor structure on the microelectronic package substrate second surface.
Abstract:
The present description relates to the fabrication of microelectronic transistor source and/or drain regions using angled etching. In one embodiment, a microelectronic transistor may be formed by using an angled etch to reduce the number masking steps required to form p-type doped regions and n-type doped regions. In further embodiments, angled etching may be used to form asymmetric spacers on opposing sides of a transistor gate, wherein the asymmetric spacers may result in asymmetric source/drain configurations.
Abstract:
A microelectronic structure includes a microelectronic substrate having a first surface and a cavity extending into the substrate from the microelectronic substrate first surface, a first microelectronic device and a second microelectronic device attached to the microelectronic substrate first surface, and a microelectronic bridge disposed within the microelectronic substrate cavity and attached to the first microelectronic device and to the second microelectronic device. In one embodiment, the microelectronic structure may include a reconstituted wafer formed from the first microelectronic device and the second microelectronic device. In another embodiment, a flux material may extend between the first microelectronic device and the microelectronic bridge and between the second microelectronic device and the microelectronic bridge.
Abstract:
A microelectronic package may be fabricated by forming a microelectronic substrate having a front surface and a back surface, transferring thickness variation in the microelectronic substrate to the microelectronic substrate back surface by attaching the microelectronic substrate front surface to a first fixture, forming a sacrificial material over the microelectronic substrate back surface having a first surface opposing the microelectronic substrate back surface, removing the microelectronic substrate from the first substrate, attaching the sacrificial material first surface to a second fixture, and attaching at least one microelectronic device to the microelectronic substrate front surface. In another embodiment, a releasing layer may be disposed between the microelectronic substrate back surface and the sacrificial material.
Abstract:
A microelectronic device having a functional metal oxide channel may be fabricated on a microelectronic substrate that can be utilized in very large scale integration, such as a silicon substrate, by forming a buffer transition layer between the microelectronic substrate and the functional metal oxide channel. In one embodiment, the microelectronic device may be a microelectronic transistor with a source structure and a drain structure formed on the buffer transition layer, wherein the source structure and the drain structure abut opposing sides of the functional metal oxide channel and a gate dielectric is disposed between a gate electrode and the functional metal oxide channel. In another embodiment, the microelectronic device may be a two-terminal microelectronic device.
Abstract:
The present description relates to n-channel gallium nitride transistors which include a recessed gate electrode, wherein the polarization layer between the gate electrode and the gallium nitride layer is less than about 1nm. In additional embodiments, the n-channel gallium nitride transistors may have an asymmetric configuration, wherein a gate-to drain length is greater than a gate-to-source length. In further embodiment, the n-channel gallium nitride transistors may be utilized in wireless power/charging devices for improved efficiencies, longer transmission distances, and smaller form factors, when compared with wireless power/charging devices using silicon-based transistors.