This application claims the benefit of People's Republic of China application Serial No. 202011319465.5, filed Nov. 23, 2020, the subject matter of which is incorporated herein by reference.
The disclosure relates in generally related to a semiconductor device and method for fabricating the same, and more particularly to a semiconductor device having a ring-shaped protrusion and method for fabricating the same.
In the manufacture of semiconductor devices, wafers need to be cut to separate into a plurality of individual dies. However, the stress caused by cutting may cause chipping and warping of the separated dies, and the chipped or warped dies may also be further warped due to the influence of the subsequent bonding wire connection or the shrinkage stress of the packaging material, resulting in a poor subsequent process yield.
Therefore, there is a need of providing an improved semiconductor device and method for fabricating the same to obviate the drawbacks encountered from the prior art.
One aspect of the present disclosure is to provide a semiconductor device, wherein the semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate, a circuit structure and a ring-shaped protrusion. The semiconductor substrate has a front surface and a rear surface opposed to each other. The circuit structure is located on the front surface. The ring-shaped protrusion is protruded on the rear surface.
Another aspect of the present disclosure is to provide a method for fabricating a semiconductor device, wherein the method comprises steps as follows: Firstly, a semiconductor substrate having a front surface and a rear surface opposite to each other is provided. A circuit structure is then formed on the front surface. Subsequently, a cutting process is performed to form at least one front recess on the front surface. An etching process is then performed to form at least one ring-shaped protrusion on the rear surface.
By forming a ring-shaped protrusion on the rear surface, the stress resistance of the semiconductor substrate can be improved which can prevent the semiconductor substrate and the circuit pattern located on the front surface of the semiconductor substrate from being warped due to the adverse impacts caused by the subsequent process, such as bonding stress generated by a wire bonding process or shrinkage stress of the packaging material resulted by a packing process. Whereby a flatter process surface can be provided for the subsequent process and the yield thereof can be thus improved. In addition, plasma etching technology is used to replace the diamond cutter to cut the semiconductor substrate, the problem of chip collapse due to stress damage caused by cutting can be thus improved.
The above objects and advantages of the present disclosure will become more readily apparent to those ordinarily skilled in the art after reviewing the following detailed description and accompanying drawings, in which:
The embodiments as illustrated below provide a semiconductor device with a ring-shaped protrusion and a method of fabricating the same. The ring-shaped protrusion can provide anti-bending properties to increase the stress resistance of the semiconductor substrate and prevent the semiconductor substrate itself and the circuit pattern located on the semiconductor substrate from being warped due to the adverse impacts caused by the subsequent process, such as bonding stress generated by a wire bonding process or shrinkage stress of the packaging material resulted by a packing process. Whereby, a flatter process surface can be provided for the subsequent process, and the yield thereof can be thus improved. In order to more clearly describe the above and other goals, features and advantages of this disclosure, the following describes the method of fabricating a semiconductor device with ring-shaped protrusions, as a preferred embodiment, and with the accompanying drawings, the detailed description is as follows.
It is to be noted that the following descriptions of preferred embodiments of this disclosure are presented herein for purpose of illustration and description only. It is not intended to be exhaustive or to be limited to the precise form disclosed. Also, it is also important to point out that there may be other features, elements, steps and parameters for implementing the embodiments of the present disclosure which are not specifically illustrated. Thus, the specification and the drawings are to be regarded as an illustrative sense rather than a restrictive sense. Various modifications and similar arrangements may be provided by the persons skilled in the art within the spirit and scope of the present disclosure. In addition, the illustrations may not be necessarily drawn to scale, and the identical elements of the embodiments are designated with the same reference numerals.
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In one embodiment of the present disclosure, the circuit structure 102 may be a patterned circuit layer formed on the front surface 101a of the semiconductor substrate 101. For example, in the present embodiment, the circuit structure 102 at least includes a plurality of circuit pattern units 102a with the same circuit layout and arranged adjacently on the front surface 101a of the semiconductor substrate 101.
Next, a cutting process is performed. Referring to
It is noted that the order and number of the laser scribing 104 and the mechanical dicing 105 for forming the front recess 110 and the cut size of the first sub-front recess 104a and the second sub-front recess 105a are not particularly limited. As long as the sub-front recesses (such as the first sub-front recess 104a and the second sub-front recess 105a) are aligned or overlapped with each other, those process used for forming the same do not depart from the spirit of the cutting process described in the present disclosure.
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Then, an etching process 106 is performed. Referring to
After the etching process 106 is performed, the ring-shaped photoresist 109 is peeled off and the second adhesive layer 108 is removed from the front surface 101a, the first substrate 120 and the second substrate 130 can be separated from each other. In the present embodiment, referring to
Specifically, the front surface 101a of each of the first substrate 120 and the second substrate 130 includes a circuit pattern unit 102a with the same circuit layout. The first substrate 120 and the second substrate 130 separated from each other can be regarded as two divided dies. Taking the first substrate 120 as an example of a semiconductor device, it includes a semiconductor substrate 101, a circuit structure 102 and a ring-shaped protrusion 103. The semiconductor substrate 101 has a front surface 101a and a rear surface 101b opposite to each other. The circuit structure 102 is located on the front surface 101a. The ring-shaped protrusion 103 is protruded on the rear surface 101b.
Subsequently, after series of downstream processes (not shown) are performed on the first substrate 120 and the second substrate 130, the preparation of the semiconductor device 100 as shown in
In some embodiments of the present disclosure, a thickness T of the semiconductor substrate 101 may be, for example, 100 micrometers, and a height H of the ring-shaped protrusion 103 may be, for example, between 20 micrometers and 50 micrometers. A ratio of the thickness T of the semiconductor substrate 101 to the height H of the ring-shaped protrusion 103 is substantially between 10:1 and 5:1, and may be, for example, 10:1, 9:1, 8:1, 7:1, 6:1 or 5:1. A region R surrounded by the ring-shaped protrusion 103 at least partially overlaps the circuit structure 102. In one embodiment, the ring-shaped protrusion 103 can be arranged in adjacent to a vertical wall 101c of the semiconductor substrate 101, and the vertical wall 101c connects the front surface 101a to the rear surface 101b. In one embodiment, the front surface 101a has a front recess 110, and a bottom 104b of the front recess 110 is connected with the vertical wall 101c, so that the bottom 104b of the front recess 110, the vertical wall 101c, and a part of the rear surface 101b connected with the vertical wall 101c Jointly define one protrusion 101p.
It is noted that the structure of the ring-shaped protrusion is not limited to this regard. For example,
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Although the shape of the ring-shaped protrusion 103 shown in
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It is to be expressly understood that such is only an example of the shape, size and distribution of the ring-shaped protrusions of the semiconductor devices. The ring-shaped protrusions may be of dissimilar shape and/or dimensions. For example, some may be quadrilateral in shape but some may have sides of the same dimension and some may have sides of different dimensions. Included within such shapes are squares, rectangles, parallelogram, rhombus, trapezoids and kite. Alternatively, the ring-shaped protrusions may be defined by a number of sides other than four, such as triangles, pentagons, hexagon, heptagons, and octagons, etc. The ring-shaped protrusions may also be of curved configuration, including circular, elliptical, arched, lens, crescent, oval, quatrefoil, and other curved shapes. Similarly, the shape of the region or sub-region surrounded by the ring-shaped protrusion can also be the above-mentioned shape, which will not be repeated here.
In the process of fabricating the semiconductor devices 200 and 300 as shown in
In the process of fabricating the semiconductor devices 400, 500, and 700 as shown in
Based on the above, in the embodiments of the present disclosure, plasma etching technology is applied to replace the traditional way of relying a cutter (such as a diamond cutter) to cut the semiconductor substrate, whereby the problem of chip collapse due to the stress damage caused by the cutter cutting can be avoided. In addition, by forming a ring-shaped protrusion on the rear surface, the stress resistance of the semiconductor substrate can be improved, which can prevent the semiconductor substrate and the circuit pattern located on the front surface of the semiconductor substrate from being warped due to the adverse impacts caused by the subsequent process, such as bonding stress generated by a wire bonding process or shrinkage stress of the packaging material resulted from a packing process. Whereby a flatter process surface can be provided for the subsequent process and the yield thereof can be thus improved. The semiconductor-based components with ring-shaped protrusions described in the embodiments of this disclosure can be applied to flip-chip products (such as underfill and heatsink) and wire bonding products (such as Epoxy Resin type) and Die Attached Film type (DAF type).
While the disclosure has been described by way of example and in terms of the exemplary embodiment(s), it is to be understood that the disclosure is not limited thereto. On the contrary, it is intended to cover various modifications and similar arrangements and procedures, and the scope of the appended claims therefore should be accorded the broadest interpretation so as to encompass all such modifications and similar arrangements and procedures.
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202011319465.5 | Nov 2020 | CN | national |