An arrangement of a semiconductor device for use in a card

Abstract: A card like semiconductor device comprising a circuit board made of plastic resin and a semiconductor pellet (1) mounted to the circuit board (2), wherein a metal layer (8) is formed on one surface of the semiconductor pellet on which semiconductor circuit is not formed. The semiconductor pellet is secured to the circuit board by bonding the metal layer to the circuit board and being sealed with high polymer material (5) on the circuit board.

Description: The present invention relates to a semiconductor device and more particularly to an arrangement of a semiconductor device suitable for mounting in a thin card. There have been known to mount one or more integrated circuits (IC), very large scale integrated circuits (VLSI) in a card to provide card like semiconductor device such as IC card, electronic calculator or electronic watch. One of the requirements in such card like semiconductor devices is to make them thin. FR-A-2 439 438 discloses a semiconductor device in which the integrated circuit device 11 is interconnected to the interconnection circuit 36 formed on the substrate 19 and the I.C. device 11 and the interconnection circuit 36 are sealed with an insulating sealing material. GB-A-2 084 399 discloses a method of securing a semiconductor pellet to the ceramic substrate via a glass film having a low melting point, wherein a glass layer having a low melting point and a layer having a large bonding junction intensity are formed on the back surface of the semiconductor pellet thereby to securely join the glass having a low melting point to the semiconductor pellet. EP-A-0 107 061 discloses a data card comprising a card body which is formed between the lower coating film and the upper coating film, wherein the card body comprises at least one semiconductor element which is connected to a carrier body having a metal conducting track formed on one or both sides thereof. An example of the conventional card like semiconductor device is shown in Fig. 1. wherein a circuit board 11 made of a hard material such as alloy plate is mounted with a semiconductor pellet 13 which is bonded on the circuit board 11 by organic adhesive 12 such as epoxy adhesive and necessary wiring terminals formed on the upper surface of the pellet 13 are to circuits on the board connected by means of bonding wires 14. After the necessary wire bonding is completed, the entire semiconductor pellet 13 and the bonding wires are sealed by plastic resin 15. In the arrangement of the conventional card like semiconductor device shown in Fig. 1, a thickness D1 of the pellet mounting portion of the card like semiconductor device is a total amount of a thickness d1 of the circuit board 11, a thickness d2 of the semiconductor pellet 13 and a thickness d3 of the resin sealing portion 15, therefore, there remains a difficulty of realizing the request of making the card like semiconductor device thinner. One approach of solving the problem mentioned above is to decrease the thickness of the circuit board 11 keeping the desired mechanical strength by using a strong plastic sheet such as polyimide resin. In addition to the above technique, as shown in Fig. 2, there is defined a through hole 16 in the circuit board 11 so that the semiconductor pellet 13 can be embeded in the through hole 16. In the arrangement shown in Fig. 2, there is formed an annular reinforcing wall 17 around the through hole 16 on the side where the bonding wires 14 are protruded. The plastic resin is injected in the hole 16 and the area surrounded by the wall 17 so as to seal the bonding wires 14 and the semiconductor pellet 13. According to the arrangement shown in Fig. 2, a thickness D2 of the pellet mounting portion of the card like semiconductor device can be the total of the thickness d2 of the semiconductor pellet 13 and a height d3 of the reinforcing wall 17 or the thickness of the resin sealing portion 15, whereby the total thickness can be decreased by the thickness d1 of the circuit board 11 in Fig. 1. Conventionally, the semiconductor pellets 13 being 0.4 mm to 0.5 mm thick are used in the card like semiconductor device and in order to decrease the thickness of the card like semiconductor device, there has been proposed to use the semiconductor pellet 13 thinner than 0.4 mm. However, such semiconductor pellets thinner than 0.4 mm are not commercially available, it is proposed to grind the semiconductor pellet to decrease the thickness thereof. Besides, as the semiconductor pellet is usually made of hard but brittle material such as silicon, mechanical resistance is low and the semiconductor pellet is easily breakable by a small external force. In case the semiconductor pellet 13 is mounted on the circuit board 11 made of mechanically strong material through the metallic bonding agent 12, since the external force can be received by the circuit board, it is possible to prevent the semiconductor pellet 13 from being subjected to the external force directly, therefore, brittleness of the silicon semiconductor pellet 13 scarcely causes the problem of damage of the pellet. However, in case the semiconductor pellet 13 is used in the card like semiconductor device without securing the bottom of the pellet as shown in Fig. 2, the semiconductor pellet 13 is easily broken by the various forces such as shrinking force of the plastic resin 15 when the plastic resin is injected and cured or by the thermal stress caused by the difference of the thermal expansion coefficient of the sealing resin material and semiconductor pellet 13 or the external force acting directly to the semiconductor pellet 13, whereby there occurs abnormal condition of the IC characteristic of the semiconductor pellet 13. Particularly, in case the semiconductor pellet 13 is made thin by grinding the bottom face thereof, grinding flaw may be formed on the bottom face of the semiconductor pellet 13 and such grinding flaw grows to micro cracks towards the inside of the semiconductor pellet 13, thereby resulting in concentration of the stress at the cracks. Therefore, the semiconductor pellets which are ground for decreasing the thickness of the card like semiconductor devices are easier to break compared to those which are not ground. This means that the arrangement of the card like semiconductor device shown in Fig. 2 is also unavailable for the commercial use. Moreover, the card like semiconductor device shown in Fig. 2 has a problem in manufacturing as mentioned below. According to the arrangement shown in Fig. 2, since it is impossible to secure the semiconductor pellet 13 directly on the circuit board 11, it is necessary to preliminarily fixedly put the semiconductor pellet 13 on a fixing device such as vacuum suction device in the wire bonding process, in turn the position of the circuit board 11 must be adjusted so that the semiconductor pellet 13 is placed near the center of the through hole 16 of the circuit board 11 by means of a suitable positioning equipment. Such process prevents to employ an automatic assembling of the semiconductor pellet 13 on the circuit board 11 and the productivity is low. Moreover, in various processes from the wire bonding process to the resin sealing process, since the semiconductor pellet 13 is not secured, the bonding wires tend to be broken in the transferring, thus yield is low. An essential object of the present invention is to provide a card like semiconductor device which is thinner than the conventional card like semiconductor device with relatively high strength. Another object of the present invention is to provide a card like semiconductor device which can be manufactured with a high productivity and high yield. In order to accomplish the objects of the present invention, there is provided a card like semiconductor device according to claim 1. Further embodiments can be found in the dependent claims. The card like semiconductor device according to the present invention, there is further defined a recess in the circuit board with a bottom for accommodation of the semiconductor pellet. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS Fig. 1 is a cross sectional view of a first example of a conventional card like semiconductor device, Fig. 2 is a cross sectional view of a second example of a conventional card like semiconductor device, Fig. 3 is a cross sectional view of an example of a card like semiconductor device according to the present invention, Figs. 4 to 6 are respectively cross sectional views showing various examples of the semiconductor pellet used in the embodiment shown in Fig. 3, Fig. 7 shows graphs showing the characteristics of the break strength of the semiconductor pellets, Fig. 8 is a cross sectional view of another example of the card like semiconductor device according to the present invention, Fig. 9 is a cross sectional view of a further example of the card like semiconductor device according to the present invention, and Fig. 10 is a cross sectional view of a further example of the card like semiconductor device according to the present invention. Referring to Fig. 3, reference numeral 1 denotes a semiconductor pellet, 2 circuit board, 3 a frame body formed on one of the surface of the circuit board 2, 4 bonding wires and 5 sealing resin. A metal layer 8 is formed on the bottom of the semiconductor pellet 1 i.e., on one of the faces of the pellet on which none of the semiconductor circuit pattern is provided. Such metal layer 8 is formed in a final process of preparing a silicon wafer. As the metal layer, various metals can be used, however, in order to increase the bonding strength of the silicon wafer and the metal layer 8, metals alloyable with the silicon are preferred. Specifically, as the metal, there may be used at least one kind of metal selected from the group consisting of gold, nickel, aluminum, chromium and molybdenum. The metal layer 8 may be formed by way of vacuum evaporation, sputtering or plating. Moreover, after the metal layer 8 is formed on the silicon wafer or in the process of making the metal layer, the silicon wafer may be heated to progress the mutual diffusion between the metal layer and silicon wafer so that there is formed an alloy layer in the interface of the metal layer and the silicon wafer. The circuit board 2 is formed by a base 2x made of heat resist material such as polyimide resin or epoxy resin containing glass fiber having its central portion defined by a recess 9 for accommodating the semiconductor pellet 1 and a metallic circuit pattern 2y made of copper layer formed on the base 2x. The depth of the recess 9 is so defined that the upper surface of the semiconductor pellet 1 generally flush with the upper surface of the metallic pattern 2y when the semiconductor pellet 1 is put on the bottom of the recess 9. The frame body 3 having a generally annular shape is made of a thin metal plate such as stainless steel sheet and is disposed on the surface of the metallic layer 2y so as to surround the recess 9. The semiconductor pellet 1 is secured on the bottom wall 9a of the recess 9 by bonding the metal layer 8 of the semiconductor pellet 1 with the bottom wall 9a by organic adhesive such as epoxy adhesive and the semiconductor pellet 1 is sealed with sealing resin 5 after wire bonding using the bonding wires 4 is completed, whereby the circuit board 2 and the semiconductor pellet 1 are integrally bonded together. The sealing resin 5 is filled in the space of the recess 9 not occupied by the semiconductor pellet 1 and the space surrounded by the frame body 3 with the bonding wires 4. As the sealing resin, there may be used any hard high molecular composition such as epoxy resin, acrylic resin. Particularly, acrylic resin is preferred because the acrylic resin can be cured by ultraviolet lays under the normal temperature, so that the semiconductor pellet 1 can be sealed. In the card like semiconductor device mentioned above, the circuit board 2 is made of a film of polyimide so that the circuit board 2 per se can be made thin. In addition, as the semiconductor pellet 1 is adapted to be accommodated in the recess 9 defined in the circuit board 2, the thickness of the card like semiconductor device at a portion where the semiconductor pellet 1 is placed can be decreased by such a thickness as the decrement of thickness of the circuit board 2 per se and the depth of the recess 9 compared to the thickness of the conventional card like semiconductor device in which the semiconductor pellet is mounted directly on the top surface of the flat circuit board. Moreover, since the semiconductor pellet 1 has its bottom face formed with the metal layer 8 so as to reinforce the semiconductor pellet 1, the mechanical strength of the semiconductor pellet 1 can be stronger than the conventional semiconductor pellet without reinforcing layer. This means that according to the embodiment of the card like semiconductor device mentioned above, the semiconductor pellet 1 can be prevented from being broken without securing the pellet 1 on the circuit board made of a high rigidness material. With the metal layer 8 formed on the bottom face of the wafer 6 as shown, concaved portions 6a are filled with the metal layer as shown in Fig. 4, so that the bottom face of the wafer 6 can be remarkably smoothed preventing concentration of the stress, thereby improving the mechanical strength of the wafer 6 or semiconductor pellet 1. In addition, by heating the wafer 6 with the metal layer 8, it is possible to progress the mutual diffusion of the atoms of the silicon wafer 6 and the metal atoms of the metal layer 8 as shown in Fig. 5. The surface diffusion which is developed along the surface of substance is quicker than the lattice diffusion which is developed towards the inside of the substance, therefore, the metal atoms of the metal layer 8 are rapidly diffused along the surface of the microcracks 10, whereby as shown in Fig. 6, there are formed uniform alloyed portions 10a near the respective microcracks 10 filling the cracks, whereby the concentration of the stress is decreased and the mechanical strength of the pellet 1 can be increased. Thus, it becomes possible to use the semiconductor pellet in which the wafer is ground to decrease the thickness and the total thickness of the card like semiconductor device can be decreased. Specific examples of the card like semiconductor device according to the present invention will be described hereinafter. There were prepared a plurality of silicon wafers and each of them were ground by means of grinding sands of NO. WA 4000 so as to prepare original wafers each having 0.3 mm thick with one surface formed grinding scratches. Subsequently, each of the original silicon wafers was formed with the metal layer of 1 µm thick on the ground surface under the conditions listed in the table 1, whereby there were produced 21 samples formed by different material of the metal layer 8 formed by different process, under different heating condition and different atmosphere at the time of heating. EXAMPLE 1 Gold was coated on the ground surface of the silicon wafer by sputtering with 1 µm thick and subsequently, the sample was heated 300 °C to 400 °C for ten minutes in a heating furnace, thereby causing silicon and gold mutually to be diffused to form Au-Si eutectic alloy layer on the ground surface of the silicon wafer. EXAMPLE 2 Gold was coated on the ground surface of the silicon wafer by vacuum evaporation with 1 µm thick and subsequently, the sample was heated 300 °C to 400 °C for ten minutes in a heating furnace, thereby causing silicon and gold mutually to be diffused to form Au-Si eutectic alloy layer on the ground surface of the silicon wafer. EXAMPLE 3 Gold was coated on the ground surface of the silicon wafer by plating with 1 µm thick and subsequently, the sample was heated 300 °C to 400 °C for ten minutes in a heating furnace, thereby causing silicon and gold mutually to be diffused to form Au-Si eutectic alloy layer on the ground surface of the silicon wafer. EXAMPLE 4 Silver was coated on the ground surface of the silicon wafer by sputtering with 1 µ m thick and subsequently, the sample was heated 400 °C to 500 °C for ten minutes in a heating furnace, thereby causing silicon and silver mutually to be diffused to form Ag-Si eutectic alloy layer on the ground surface of the silicon wafer. Example 5 Silver was coated on the ground surface of the silicon wafer by vacuum evaporation with 1 µ m thick and subsequently, the sample was heated 400 °C to 500 °C for ten minutes in a heating furnace thereby causing silicon and silver mutually to be diffused to form Ag-Si eutectic alloy layer on the ground surface of the silicon wafer. EXAMPLE 6 Silver was coated on the ground surface of the silicon wafer by plating with 1 µ m thick and subsequently, the sample was heated 400 °C to 500 °C for ten minutes in a heating furnace, thereby causing silicon and silver mutually to be diffused to form Ag-Si eutectic alloy layer on the ground surface of the silicon wafer. EXAMPLE 7 Nickel was coated on the ground surface of the silicon wafer by sputtering with 1 µ m thick in a vacuum container and subsequently, neutral gas is introduced in the chamber and the sample was kept in the atmosphere of the neutral gas with 400 °C to 500 °C for ten minutes, thereby causing silicon and nickel mutually to be diffused to form Ni-Si alloy layer on the ground surface of the silicon wafer. EXAMPLE 8 Nickel was coated on the ground surface of the silicon wafer by sputtering with 1 µm thick and subsequently, reducing gas was introduced in the chamber and the sample was kept in the atmosphere of the reducing gas with 400 °C to 500 °C for ten minutes, thereby causing silicon and nickel mutually to be diffused to form Ni-Si alloy layer on the ground surface of the silicon wafer. EXAMPLE 9 Nickel was coated on the ground surface of the silicon wafer by sputtering with 1 µm thick and subsequently, the sample was kept in the vacuum with 400 °C to 500 °C for ten minutes, thereby causing silicon and nickel mutually to be diffused to form Ni-Si alloy layer on the ground surface of the silicon wafer. EXAMPLE 10 Nickel was coated on the ground surface of the silicon wafer by plating with 1 µ m thick and subsequently, the sample was accommodated in a container to which neutral gas was introduced and the sample was kept in the atmosphere of the neutral gas with 400 °C to 500 °C for ten minutes, thereby causing silicon and nickel mutually to be diffused to form Ni-Si alloy layer on the ground surface of the silicon wafer. EXAMPLE 11 Nickel was coated on the ground surface of the silicon wafer by plating with 1 µ m thick and subsequently, the sample was accommodated in a container to which reducing gas was introduced and the sample was kept in the atmosphere of the restoration gas with 400 °C to 500 °C for ten minutes, thereby causing silicon and nickel mutually to be diffused to form Ni-Si alloy layer on the ground surface of the silicon wafer. EXAMPLE 12 Nickel was coated on the ground surface of the silicon wafer by plating with 1 µ m thick and subsequently, the sample was accommodated in a vacuum container and the sample was kept in the high vacuum atmosphere with 400 °C to 500 °C for ten minutes, thereby causing silicon and nickel mutually to be diffused to form Ni-Si alloy layer on the ground surface of the silicon wafer. EXAMPLE 13 Aluminum was coated on the ground surface of the silicon wafer by sputtering with 1 µ m thick and subsequently, neutral gas was introduced in the chamber and the sample was kept in the atmosphere of the neutral gas with 400 °C to 500 °C for ten minutes, thereby causing silicon and aluminum mutually to be diffused to form Al-Si eutectic alloy layer on the ground surface of the silicon wafer. EXAMPLE 14 Aluminum was coated on the ground surface of the silicon wafer by sputtering with 1 µ m thick and subsequently reducing gas was introduced in the vacuum container and the sample was kept in the atmosphere of the reducing with 400 °C to 500 °C for ten minutes, thereby causing silicon and aluminum mutually to be diffused to form Al-Si eutectic alloy layer on the ground surface of the silicon wafer. EXAMPLE 15 Aluminum was coated on the ground surface of the silicon wafer by sputtering with 1 µ m thick and the sample was kept in the vacuum with 400 °C to 500 °C for ten minutes, thereby causing silicon and aluminum mutually to be diffused to form Al-Si eutectic alloy layer on the ground surface of the silicon wafer. EXAMPLE 16 Aluminum was coated on the ground surface of the silicon wafer by vacuum evaporation with 1 µ m thick in a vacuum chamber and subsequently, neutral gas was introduced in the chamber and the sample was kept in the atmosphere of the neutral gas with 400 °C to 500 °C for ten minutes, thereby causing silicon and aluminum mutually to be diffused to form Al-Si eutectic alloy layer on the ground surface of the silicon wafer. EXAMPLE 17 Aluminum was coated on the ground surface of the silicon wafer by vacuum evaporation with 1 µ m thick in a chamber and subsequently, reducing gas was introduced in the chamber and the sample was kept in the atmosphere of the reducing gas with 400 °C to 500 °C for ten minutes, thereby causing silicon and aluminum mutually to be diffused to form Al-Si eutectic alloy layer on the ground surface of the silicon wafer. EXAMPLE 18 Aluminum was coated on the ground surface of the silicon wafer by vacuum evaporation with 1 µ m thick in a chamber and the sample was kept in the vacuum with 400 °C to 500 °C for ten minutes, thereby causing silicon and aluminum mutually to be diffused to form Al-Si eutectic alloy layer on the ground surface of the silicon wafer. EXAMPLE 19 Gold was coated on the ground surface of the silicon wafer by vacuum evaporation with 1 µ m thick and subsequently, the sample was kept in a heating furnace with 250 °C to 300 °C for five minutes, thereby causing silicon and gold mutually to be diffused only in the interface of the wafer and gold layer to form an Au-Si eutectic alloy layer formed on the ground surface of the silicon wafer, further remaining a monometallic gold layer on the alloy layer. EXAMPLE 20 Gold was coated on the ground surface of the silicon wafer by plating with 1 µ m thick and subsequently, the sample was accommodated in a container to which neutral gas was introduced and kept in the container with 250 °C to 300 °C for five minutes, thereby causing silicon and gold mutually to be diffused to form Au-Si eutectic alloy layer on the ground surface of the silicon wafer further remaining a monometallic gold layer on the alloy layer. The semiconductor pellets produced by scribing the respective wafers produced in the manner mentioned in the examples 1 to 20 and wafers without alloy layers were respectively mounted on circuit boards as shown in Fig. 3 respectively. Then the respective circuit boards with the pellets were subjected to repetitive bending of ± 15% 100 times. There occurred 1% to 2% inoperable pellets in the pellets having wafers without alloy layer. On the other hand, all of the pellets mounted with the wafers having the alloy layers of the examples 1 to 20 were kept operable. The difference of the durability were not recognized among all examples 1 to 20. Thus it becomes apparent that in the card device according to the present invention, difference of the kinds of the material of the metal layer, the way of forming the metal layer, the degree of the diffusion of the metal in the wafer do not causes the difference of the durability of the semiconductor pellets. Tests of the break strength were conducted about the respective examples 1 to 20 and the pellets without the alloy layer. The result is shown in Fig. 7, in which the horizontal axis represents the break strength and vertical axis the ratio between the number of broken pellets and the total number of the pellets. As apparent form the graphs, the semiconductor pellets obtained by scribing the wafers without the metal layer on the ground surface are distributed over the range of 59 MPa (6 kgf/mm²) to 235 MPa (24 kgf/mm²) of the break strength and the average value is 156 MPa (15.9 kgf/mm²) with the standard deviation of 43 MPa (4.39 kgf/mm²). On the other hand, the semiconductor pellets obtained by scribing the wafers having the metal or alloy layer on the ground surface are distributed over the range of 167 MPa (17 kgf/mm²) to 420 MPa (43 kgf/mm²) of the break strength and the average break strength is 293 MPa (29.9 kgf/mm²) with the standard deviation 56 MPa (5.69 kgf/mm²). Thus the semiconductor pellets formed by the wafers having the alloy layer show about twice the break strength and the deviation of the break strength is decreased. Another embodiment of the card like semiconductor device according to the present invention is shown in Fig. 8 in which the circuit board 2 is formed by laminating a polyimide sheet 2a of 0.2 to 0.3 mm thick and another polyimide sheet 2b of about 0.1mm thick. The circuit board 2 has its top surface provided with the circuit patterns 2c made of copper film about 35 µ m thick. The recess 9 for accommodation of the semiconductor pellet 1 is defined in the polyimide sheet 2a. A further embodiment of the card like semiconductor device according to the present invention is shown in Fig. 9 in which the circuit board 2 is provided with the circuit pattern of about 35 µm formed on the top surface thereof and further circuit patterns 19 formed on the bottom face of the circuit board. The circuit board 2 has about 0.1 mm thick and made of epoxy resin containing glass fibers. Fig. 10 shows an example of an IC card employing the card like semiconductor device as shown in Fig. 9. As shown the card like semiconductor device is embeded in a space 24 defined in a card body made by laminated core sheets 21 and 22 each made of an opaque vinyl chloride sheet with the top face of the core sheet 21 printed by possible description. The core sheets 21 and 22 are covered with transparent vinyl chloride sheets 20 and 23. Although as the metals for the alloy layer gold, silver, nickel and aluminum are used, there may be used various metals such as chromium or molybdenum so far as it is available to form the alloy with the material of the wafer. The metal layer on the wafer may be formed by any methods for forming the thin metal film. Moreover, in the present invention, the metal layer may be formed on a surface of a wafer without grinding. As the way of connecting the circuit pattern of the circuit board and circuit pattern of the semiconductor pellet, various connecting methods such as gang bonding method, face down method or other conventional connecting methods may be used. It is noted that in case the card like semiconductor device according to the present invention is employed in a plastic sheet of vinyl chloride such as an IC card or ID card or bank card, it is possible to provide an extremely thin card device which is easy to use with a high mechanical strength. According to the present invention, since the metal layer is formed on one surface of the pellet on which semiconductor circuit is not provided, the mechanical strength of the pellet can be reinforced, enabling to increase the mechanical strength. Furthermore, increment of the mechanical strength of the pellet by the metal layer enables to decrease the thickness of the pellet so that the total thickness of the card like semiconductor device can be decreased. Moreover, since the pellet can be secured to the circuit board or substrate before wire bonding, the works of wire bonding may be easy because it is not necessary to preliminarily secure the pellet and circuit board or substrate to separate securing tools, whereby the arrangement of the card like semiconductor device according to the present invention enables to employ an automatic production improving the workability and productivity. Moreover since the pellet is secured to the circuit board or substrate, there does not occur breakage of the bonding wires connecting between the pellet and circuit board in the processes after the wire bonding up to resin sealing, the yield of the card like semiconductor device can be improved.

Claims: A card like semiconductor device comprising a circuit beard (2) made of plastic resin (5), a silicon semiconductor pellet (1) mounted to the circuit board (2) and being sealed with high polymer material on the circuit board (2), characterised by a metal layer (8) formed on one surface of the semiconductor pellet (1) on which no semiconductor circuit is formed, the semiconductor pellet (1) being secured to the circuit board (2) by bonding the metal layer (8) to the circuit board (2), and an alloy layer at the interface of the metal layer (8) and the semiconductor pellets (1), the alloy comprising at least one kind of metal element of the metal layer (8) and silicon constituting the semiconductor pellet (1). The device according to claim 1, wherein said metal layer (8) is formed by at least one kind of metal selected from a group consisting of gold, silver, nickel, aluminum, chromium and molybdenum. The device according to claim 1, wherein the thickness of the metal layer (8) is thinner than 20 µm. The device according to claim 1, wherein said one face of the semiconductor pellet (1) on which the metal layer (8) is formed is without mirror finish. The device according to claim 1, wherein said circuit beard (2) is made of polyimide resin. The device according to claim 1, wherein the thickness of the semiconductor pellet (1) is thinner than 0.4 mm. The device according to claim 1, wherein each circuit pattern of the semiconductor pellet (1) and circuit board (2) is interconnected by wire bending (4). The device according to claim 1, wherein said semiconductor pellet (1) is sealed with epoxy resin. The device according to claim 1, wherein said semiconductor pellet (1) is sealed on the circuit board (2) with acrylic resin. A card like semiconductor device according to claims 1 to 9 comprising a recess (9) with a bottom defined in the circuit board (2) for accommodation of the semiconductor pellet (1) and the semiconductor pellet (1) being secured to the circuit board (2) by bonding the metal layer (8) to the bottom wall of the recess (9).

Inventors: YAMAMOTO HIROSHI, YAMAMOTO, HIROSHI
Applicants: HITACHI MAXELL, HITACHI MAXELL LTD.
Application year: 1987
Main classification: G06K19
IPC codes: H01L21, H01L23, G06K19