Patent ID: 8884165

Claim:
A packaged optoelectronic device comprising: a semiconductor substrate that has an optoelectronic device structure and an electrical contact structure provided on a first surface of said semiconductor substrate; a transparent glass substrate that is arranged spaced apart from said first surface with a gap therebetween and covering said optoelectronic device structure and said electrical contact structure, and that includes an optically transparent glass window area over said optoelectronic device structure allowing light from an exterior environment to pass through said window area to said optoelectronic device structure; plural metal wire electrodes that respectively extend straight through an entire thickness of said glass substrate in respective vias penetrating through said glass substrate at respective locations beside said window area, wherein said metal wire electrodes are respectively hermetically sealed directly to said glass substrate respectively by glass-to-metal-seals formed in said vias, and wherein said metal wire electrodes further extend continuously and integrally beyond and away from a surface of said glass substrate through said gap and contact said electrical contact structure on said first surface of said semiconductor substrate; and a continuous perimeter seal bead of a sealant material that is sandwiched between and hermetically sealed to said semiconductor substrate and said glass substrate in said gap, along an entire perimeter outwardly around and spaced outwardly away from said metal wire electrodes, said electrical contact structure, said optoelectronic device structure, and said window area; wherein said optoelectronic device structure is hermetically sealed and enclosed from said exterior environment by said semiconductor substrate, said continuous perimeter seal bead, and said glass substrate including said metal wire electrodes sealed in said vias by said glass-to-metal-seals.