Semiconductor apparatus, method of manufacturing semiconductor apparatus, method of designing semiconductor apparatus, and electronic apparatus

• US 8,541,878 B2
• Filed: 03/17/2011
• Issued: 09/24/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 03/25/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Takahashi, Hiroshi, Sukegawa, Shunichi, Inoue, Keishi
• Primary Examiner(s): FOURSON III, GEORGE R
• Application Number:
  US13/050,338
• Publication Number:
  US 20110233702A1
• Time in Patent Office: 922 Days
• Field of Search: 257/760, 257/774, 257/E23.011, 257/E23.145, 257/E23.152
• US Class Current: 257/760
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 21/76802 by forming openings in dielectrics
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 21/76898 formed through a semiconductor substrate
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 2224/02166 Collar structures
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 2224/03 Manufacturing methods
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 2224/04042 Bonding areas specifically adapted for wire connectors, e.g. wirebond pads
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 2224/08145 the bodies being stacked
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 2224/24147 the HDI interconnect not connecting to the same level of the lower semiconductor or solid-state body at which the upper semiconductor or solid-state body is mounted, e.g. the upper semiconductor or solid-state body being mounted in a cavity or on a protrusion of the lower semiconductor or solid-state body
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 2224/48463 the connecting portion on the bonding area of the semiconductor or solid-state body being a ball bond
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 2224/80001 by connecting a bonding area directly to another bonding area, i.e. connectorless bonding, e.g. bumpless bonding
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 2224/80896 between electrically insulating surfaces, e.g. oxide or nitride layers
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 2224/82 by forming build-up interconnects at chip-level, e.g. for high density interconnects [HDI]
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 2224/8203 Reshaping, e.g. forming vias
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 2224/821 Forming a build-up interconnect
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 2224/9202 Forming additional connectors after the connecting process
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 2224/9212 Sequential connecting processes
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 23/481 Internal lead connections, e.g. via connections, feedthrough structures
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 23/5283 Cross-sectional geometry
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 23/535 including internal interconnections, e.g. cross-under constructions internal lead connections H01L23/481
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 24/05 of an individual bonding area
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 27/14621 Colour filter arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 27/14627 : Microlenses
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 27/14632 : Wafer-level processed structures
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 27/14634 : Assemblies, i.e. Hybrid structures
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 27/14636 : Interconnect structures
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 27/14638 : Structures specially adapted for transferring the charges across the imager perpendicular to the imaging plane
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 27/1464 : Back illuminated imager structures
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 27/14645 : Colour imagers
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 27/1469 : Assemblies, i.e. hybrid integration
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 2924/00 : Indexing scheme for arrangements or methods for connecting or disconnecting semiconductor or solid-state bodies as covered by H01L24/00
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 2924/12043 : Photo diode
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 2924/1306 : Field-effect transistor [FET]
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 2924/13091 : Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor [MOSFET]
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 2924/14 : Integrated circuits
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 2924/3025 : Electromagnetic shielding
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 31/02002 : Arrangements for conducting electric current to or from the device in operations
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 31/02008 : for solar cells or solar cell modules
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 31/02013 : comprising output lead wires elements
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 25/79 : Arrangements of circuitry being divided between different or multiple substrates, chips or circuit boards, e.g. stacked image sensors

Abstract

A semiconductor device including a first material layer adjacent to a second material layer, a first via passing through the first material layer and extending into the second material layer, and a second via extending into the first material layer, where along a common cross section parallel to an interface between the two material layers, the first via has a cross section larger than that of the second via.

Claims

1. A semiconductor device comprising:

a first material layer adjacent to a second material layer, the first material layer including a two-dimensional array area having a plurality of units arranged in a two-dimensional array;

a first via passing through the first material layer and extending into the second material layer; and

a second via extending into the first material layer,

wherein,

along a common cross section parallel to an interface between the two material layers, the first via has a cross section larger than that of the second via, and

the first via and the second via are located within the two-dimensional array area.

2. The semiconductor device of claim 1 including:

a first insulating layer in the first material layer;

a second insulating layer in the second material layer,

wherein,

the first via extends into the second insulating layer in the second material layer, and

the second via extends into the first insulating layer in the first material layer.

6. The semiconductor device of claim 1 including an on chip lens over a photodiode of the first material layer.

7. The semiconductor device of claim 6 including an on chip color filter between the photodiode and the on chip lens.

8. The semiconductor device of claim 1 wherein the first via has a diameter 1.5 to 10 times a diameter of the second via along a common cross section parallel to an interface between the two material layers.

9. The semiconductor device of claim 1 wherein the first via has a diameter 3 to 4 times a diameter of the second via along a common cross section parallel to an interface between the two material layers.

15. The semiconductor device of claim 1, wherein the second material layer includes a pad layer.

16. The semiconductor device of claim 1, wherein a topmost layer of the second material layer is an aluminum interconnect layer.

17. The semiconductor device of claim 1, wherein the second material layer includes signal input and output terminals.

18. The semiconductor device of claim 1, wherein the two-dimensional array area includes a plurality of first and second vias.

19. The semiconductor device of claim 1, comprising a photodiode.

20. The semiconductor device of claim 1, wherein, each of the units in the two-dimensional array region is a photoelectric converter.

21. The semiconductor device of claim 17, wherein the signal input and output terminals are located along at least three sides of the second material layer.

3. A semiconductor device comprising:

a first material layer adjacent to a second material layer;

a first via passing through the first material layer and extending into the second material layer; and

a second via extending into the first material layer;

wherein,

along a common cross section parallel to an interface between the two material layers, the first via has a cross section larger than that of the second via, and

the first via and the second via are filled with a conductive material.

4. A semiconductor device comprising:

a first material layer adjacent to a second material layer;

a first via passing through the first material layer and extending into the second material layer; and

a second via extending into the first material layer,

a first insulating layer in the first material layer; and

a second insulating layer in the second material layer,

wherein,

along a common cross section parallel to an interface between the two material layers, the first via has a cross section larger than that of the second via,

the first via extends into the second insulating layer in the second material layer,

the second via extends into the first insulating layer in the first material layer, and

the first via reaches a second interconnect in the second insulating layer in the second material layer.

5. A semiconductor device comprising:

a first material layer adjacent to a second material layer;

a first via passing through the first material layer and extending into the second material layer;

a second via extending into the first material layer;

a first insulating layer in the first material layer; and

a second insulating layer in the second material layer,

wherein,

along a common cross section parallel to an interface between the two material layers, the first via has a cross section larger than that of the second via,

the first via extends into the second insulating layer in the second material layer,

the second via extends into the first insulating layer in the first material layer, and

the second via reaches a first interconnect in the first insulating layer in the first material layer.

10. A semiconductor device comprising:

a first material layer adjacent to a second material layer;

a first via passing through the first material layer and extending into the second material layer; and

a second via extending into the first material layer,

wherein,

along a common cross section parallel to an interface between the two material layers, the first via has a cross section larger than that of the second via, and

the device is a backside illuminated device.

11. A semiconductor device comprising:

a first material layer adjacent to a second material layer;

a first via passing through the first material layer and extending into the second material layer; and

a second via extending into the first material layer,

wherein,

along a common cross section parallel to an interface between the two material layers, the first via has a cross section larger than that of the second via, and

the first material layer is a semiconductor layer.

12. A semiconductor device comprising:

a first material layer adjacent to a second material layer;

a first via passing through the first material layer and extending into the second material layer; and

a second via extending into the first material layer,

wherein,

along a common cross section parallel to an interface between the two material layers, the first via has a cross section larger than that of the second via, and

the second material layer is a semiconductor layer.

13. A solid state imaging device comprising:

a first material layer adjacent to a second material layer, the first material layer including a two-dimensional array area having a plurality of units arranged in a two-dimensional array;

a first via passing through the first material layer and extending into the second material layer; and

a second via extending into the first material layer,

wherein,

along a common cross section parallel to an interface between the two material layers, the first via has a cross section larger than that of the second via, and

the first via and the second via are located within the two-dimensional array area.

14. An electronic apparatus comprising:

a first material layer adjacent to a second material layer, the first material layer including a two-dimensional array area having a plurality of units arranged in a two-dimensional array;

a first via passing through the first material layer and extending into the second material layer; and

a second via extending into the first material layer,

wherein,

along a common cross section parallel to an interface between the two material layers, the first via has a cross section larger than that of the second via, and

the first via and the second via are located within the two-dimensional array area.

22. A semiconductor device comprising:

a first material layer adjacent to a second material layer, the first material layer including a two-dimensional array area having a plurality of units arranged in a two-dimensional array;

a first via passing through the first material layer and extending into the second material layer;

a second via extending into the first material layer,

a power terminal; and

a ground terminal,

wherein,

along a common cross section parallel to an interface between the two material layers, the first via has a cross section larger than that of the second via,

the semiconductor device is substantially rectangular in plan view,

the first via and the second via are located within the two-dimensional array area, and

the power and ground terminals are located in diagonally opposite corners of the substantially rectangular shape.