Patent ID: 8399995

Claim:
A semiconductor device comprising: a chip comprising a single circuit element formed in a semiconductor substrate, a first metal layer on a first face of the semiconductor substrate and extending only over the first face of the semiconductor substrate, and a second metal layer on a second face of the semiconductor substrate opposite the first face and extending only over the second face of the semiconductor substrate, the first metal layer and the second metal layer configured for accessing the single circuit element, the first metal layer directly coupled to a first doped region within the semiconductor substrate, and the second metal layer directly coupled to a second doped region within the semiconductor substrate, wherein a smaller of a width of the first face of the semiconductor substrate and a length of the first face of the semiconductor substrate perpendicular to the width is less than or equal to a distance between an exposed face of the first metal layer parallel to the first face of the semiconductor substrate and an exposed face of the second metal layer parallel to the second face of the semiconductor substrate.