Abstract:
An audio output device and an electronic device are provided. The audio output device includes a plurality of speakers, a terminal connected with a sound source providing device, and a cable connecting the plurality of speakers and the terminal. The cable includes a wire, a flexible element arranged surrounding a portion of the wire, and an insulation member forming an outer sheath of the cable. The flexible element includes a first flexible electrode and a second flexible electrode, and a capacitance of the flexible element changes as the flexible element is deformed.
Abstract:
Semiconductor devices including a through via structure and methods of forming the same are provided. The semiconductor devices may include a semiconductor substrate including a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface, a front insulating layer on the first surface of the semiconductor substrate, a back insulating layer on the second surface of the semiconductor substrate, a through via structure extending through the back insulating layer, the semiconductor substrate, and the front insulating layer, a via insulating layer on a side surface of the through via structure, and a contact structure extending through the front insulating layer. The through via structure may include a first region and a second region disposed on the first region. The second region may include a first doping element, and the first region may be substantially free of the first doping element.
Abstract:
The inventive concept provides semiconductor devices having through-vias and methods for fabricating the same. The method may include forming a via-hole opened toward a top surface of a substrate and partially penetrating the substrate, forming a via-insulating layer having a first thickness on a bottom surface of the via-hole and a second thickness smaller than the first thickness on an inner sidewall of the via-hole, forming a through-via in the via-hole which the via-insulating layer is formed in, and recessing a bottom surface of the substrate to expose the through-via. Forming the via-insulating layer may include forming a flowable layer on the substrate, and converting the flowable layer into a first flowable chemical vapor deposition layer having the first thickness on the bottom surface of the via-hole.
Abstract:
The inventive concept provides semiconductor devices having through-vias and methods for fabricating the same. The method may include forming a via-hole opened toward a top surface of a substrate and partially penetrating the substrate, forming a via-insulating layer having a first thickness on a bottom surface of the via-hole and a second thickness smaller than the first thickness on an inner sidewall of the via-hole, forming a through-via in the via-hole which the via-insulating layer is formed in, and recessing a bottom surface of the substrate to expose the through-via. Forming the via-insulating layer may include forming a flowable layer on the substrate, and converting the flowable layer into a first flowable chemical vapor deposition layer having the first thickness on the bottom surface of the via-hole.
Abstract:
The inventive concept provides semiconductor devices having through-vias and methods for fabricating the same. The method may include forming a via-hole opened toward a top surface of a substrate and partially penetrating the substrate, forming a via-insulating layer having a first thickness on a bottom surface of the via-hole and a second thickness smaller than the first thickness on an inner sidewall of the via-hole, forming a through-via in the via-hole which the via-insulating layer is formed in, and recessing a bottom surface of the substrate to expose the through-via. Forming the via-insulating layer may include forming a flowable layer on the substrate, and converting the flowable layer into a first flowable chemical vapor deposition layer having the first thickness on the bottom surface of the via-hole.
Abstract:
A semiconductor package includes an insulating layer including a first face and a second face opposite each other, a redistribution pattern including a wiring region and a via region in the insulating layer, the wiring region being on the via region, and a first semiconductor chip connected to the redistribution pattern. The first semiconductor chip may be on the redistribution pattern. An upper face of the wiring region may be coplanar with the first face of the insulating layer.
Abstract:
A portable electronic device and a protection case thereof are provided. The portable electronic device includes a memory; a display; and a processor configured to acquire, from a flexible element included in a protection case of the portable electronic device, a characteristic value of the flexible element, the characteristic value changing according to bending of the flexible element through movement of the protection case, and determine a state of the protection case, based in the acquired characteristic value.
Abstract:
Provided are semiconductor devices having through electrodes and methods of fabricating the same. The method includes providing a substrate including top and bottom surfaces facing each other, forming a hole and a gap extending from the top surface of the substrate toward the bottom surface of the substrate, the gap surrounding the hole and being shallower than the hole, filling the hole with an insulating material, forming a metal interconnection line on the top surface of the substrate on the insulating material, recessing the bottom surface of the substrate to expose the insulating material, removing the insulating material to expose the metal interconnection line via the hole, filling the hole with a conductive material to form a through electrode connected to the metal interconnection line, recessing the bottom surface of the substrate again to expose the gap, and forming a lower insulating layer on the bottom surface of the substrate.
Abstract:
A wafer carrier includes a base having a cavity provided at the center of the base and an outer sidewall extending along and away from an edge of the base to define the cavity. The cavity is configured to be filled with an adhesive layer. The wafer carrier is configured to be bonded to a wafer with an adhesive layer in the cavity of base such that the outer sidewall faces and is in contact with an edge of the wafer and the cavity faces a center of the wafer.
Abstract:
Provided are semiconductor devices with a through electrode and methods of fabricating the same. The methods may include forming a via hole at least partially penetrating a substrate, the via hole having an entrance provided on a top surface of the substrate, forming a via-insulating layer to cover conformally an inner surface of the via hole, forming a buffer layer on the via-insulating layer to cover conformally the via hole provided with the via-insulating layer, the buffer layer being formed of a material whose shrinkability is superior to the via-insulating layer, forming a through electrode to fill the via hole provided with the buffer layer, and recessing a bottom surface of the substrate to expose the through electrode.