IP Library Granted Patent US 8,278,738
Granted Patent B2
US 8,278,738 · App. 11/884,536 · Granted Oct 2, 2012

Method of producing semiconductor device and semiconductor device

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Patent No.
US 8,278,738
App. No.
11/884,536
Granted
Oct 2, 2012
Kind
B2
Abstract

A method of producing a semiconductor device which can reliably perform conductor filling to form a through hole electrode by a simple method is provided. A method of producing a semiconductor device of the present invention includes the steps of thinning a substrate from its back side in a state in which a first supporting body is attached to the front side of the substrate, removing the first supporting body from the substrate and attaching a second supporting body having an opening to the back side of the substrate, forming a through hole communicating with the opening of the second supporting body in the substrate before or after attaching the second supporting body, forming an insulating film within the through hole, and filling a conductor into the through hole of the substrate.

Claims (33)

1. A semiconductor device, comprising:

a circuit component portion formed on a front side of a substrate;

a through hole piercing the substrate and the circuit component portion;

an insulating film formed on a side face of the through hole and on a front side of the circuit component portion; and

a conductive layer filled in the through hole to extend from a backside of the substrate to the front side of the circuit component portion,

wherein the conductive layer and the insulating film protrude from a backside of the semiconductor device so as to insulate the conductive layer from other areas of the backside of the semiconductor device.

2. The device of claim 1 , wherein the substrate has a thickness of 30 to 100 μm.

3. The device of claim 1 , wherein the conductive layer is made of a conductor seed layer and a conductor filled by an electrolytic plating method using this seed layer.

4. The device of claim 3 , wherein the conductor seed layer has a thickness between a thickness of a monoatomic layer and 200 nm.

5. The device of claim 3 , wherein the conductor seed layer is formed within the through hole via a barrier layer.

6. The device of claim 5 , wherein the barrier layer is made of TiN or TaN.

7. The device of claim 1 , wherein the circuit component portion comprises a wiring layer inside, the through hole is formed so as to expose the wiring layer, and the conductive layer is formed so as to be connected to the wiring layer.

8. The device of claim 1 , wherein the conductive layer protrudes from the backside of the substrate to a larger extent than the insulating film formed on the side face of the through hole.

9. A lamination semiconductor device, comprising:

an interposer having a bump ball on the backside and a through-hole electrode inside; and

a plurality of semiconductor devices laminated on the interposer;

wherein the plurality of semiconductor devices are the devices of claim 1 .

10. The device of claim 1 , wherein a diameter of the through hole formed in the substrate and the circuit component portion is constant throughout an entire depth of the substrate and the circuit component portion.

11. The device of claim 1 , wherein the insulating film is not formed on the backside of the substrate.

12. The device of claim 1 , wherein the front sides of the conductive layer and the insulating film are coplanar.

13. The device of claim 1 , wherein the insulating film on the side face of the through hole contacts the circuit component portion and the substrate.

14. A semiconductor device, comprising:

a circuit component portion formed on a front side of a substrate;

a through hole piercing the substrate and the circuit component portion;

a groove formed on a backside of the substrate, elongated in parallel with the backside, and communicating with the through hole;

an insulating film formed on a side face of the through hole, on a front side of the circuit component portion and on an inner face of the groove;

a conductive layer filled in the through hole to extend from the backside of the substrate to the front side of the circuit component portion; and

an elongated groove wiring filled in the groove.

15. The device of claim 14 , wherein backsides of the substrate and the groove wiring are coplanar.

16. The device of claim 14 , wherein the insulating film is not formed on the backside of the substrate outside of the groove wiring.

17. The device of claim 14 , wherein the front sides of the conductive layer and the insulating film are coplanar.

18. The device of claim 14 , wherein the elongated groove wiring is rectangular in shape.

19. The device of claim 14 , wherein the insulating film on the side face of the through hole contacts the circuit component portion and the substrate.

Assignments (7)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Nov 24, 2025
From: INVENSAS CORPORATION
To: INVENSAS LLC
Reel/Frame 073941/0814 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Nov 24, 2025
From: INVENSAS LLC
To: ADEIA SEMICONDUCTOR TECHNOLOGIES LLC
Reel/Frame 073508/0745 →
RELEASE OF SECURITY INTEREST Recorded Jun 11, 2020
From: ROYAL BANK OF CANADA
To: TESSERA, INC.; INVENSAS BONDING TECHNOLOGIES, INC. (F/K/A ZIPTRONIX, INC.); FOTONATION CORPORATION (F/K/A DIGITALOPTICS CORPORATION AND F/K/A DIGITALOPTICS CORPORATION MEMS); INVENSAS CORPORATION; TESSERA ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES, INC; DTS, INC.; DTS LLC; PHORUS, INC.; IBIQUITY DIGITAL CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 052920/0001 →
SECURITY INTEREST Recorded Jun 1, 2020
From: ROVI SOLUTIONS CORPORATION; ROVI TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION; ROVI GUIDES, INC.; TIVO SOLUTIONS INC.; VEVEO, INC.; INVENSAS CORPORATION; INVENSAS BONDING TECHNOLOGIES, INC.; TESSERA, INC.; TESSERA ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES, INC.; DTS, INC.; PHORUS, INC.; IBIQUITY DIGITAL CORPORATION
To: BANK OF AMERICA, N.A.
Reel/Frame 053468/0001 →
SECURITY INTEREST Recorded Dec 2, 2016
From: INVENSAS CORPORATION; TESSERA, INC.; TESSERA ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES, INC.; ZIPTRONIX, INC.; DIGITALOPTICS CORPORATION; DIGITALOPTICS CORPORATION MEMS; DTS, LLC; DTS, INC.; PHORUS, INC.; IBIQUITY DIGITAL CORPORATION
To: ROYAL BANK OF CANADA, AS COLLATERAL AGENT
Reel/Frame 040797/0001 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 14, 2013
From: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
To: INVENSAS CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 031401/0219 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 17, 2007
From: NAKASHIMA, HIROAKI
To: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Reel/Frame 019765/0181 →