Patent ID: 7790505

Claim:
A semiconductor chip package manufacturing method, comprising: providing a base, having an upper surface, a lower surface, a plurality of image sensor chips and an encapsulant, the encapsulant surrounding the image sensor chips, each of the image sensor chips having an active surface even with the upper surface of the base and a back surface even with the lower surface of the base, the active surface having a plurality of pads thereon, and an active area; placing a transparent insulator on the active area of each of the image sensor chips; forming an insulation layer on the upper surface of the base; forming a plurality of openings on the insulation layer, wherein the openings are located at the positions corresponding to the image sensor chip pads, so as to expose the pads; forming a plurality of through holes outside of the image sensor chips, wherein the through holes penetrate the insulation layer and the encapsulant of the base; forming a metal layer on surfaces of the insulation layer, the openings, the pads, the through holes, and on the lower surface of the base, so as to extend the pads to the lower surface of the base; patterning the metal layer, so as to expose a top area of the transparent insulator and remove a partial area of the metal layer on the lower surface of the base, so as to form a plurality of contacts; and performing a sawing process to form a plurality of package structures, wherein each of the package structures comprises a single image sensor chip, wherein after patterning the metal layer and before the sawing process, the method further comprises: forming an upper passivation layer and a lower passivation layer, wherein the upper passivation layer is located above the upper surface of the base, and the lower passivation layer is located above the lower surface of the base, the lower passivation layer has a plurality of ball-mounting positions; forming a plurality of openings at the ball-mounting positions of the lower passivation layer and the corresponding positions at the top of the transparent insulator of the upper passivation layer, so as to expose the contacts and to expose the top surface of the transparent insulator; and forming a plurality of solder balls at each contact of the lower passivation layer, so as to form electrical connections between the solder balls and the metal layer.