Patent ID: 8564119

Claim:
An electronic module comprising: a chip layer including: at least one chip, each chip comprising at least one side surface, an upper surface, a lower surface, and at least one contact pad at the upper surface; and a structural material surrounding and physically contacting the at least one side surface of each chip of the chip layer, the structural material having an upper surface substantially co-planar with or parallel to an upper surface of the at least one chip and defining at least a portion of a front surface of the chip layer, and a lower surface substantially co-planar with or parallel to a lower surface of the at least one chip and defining at least a portion of a back surface of the chip layer; at least one device disposed over the back surface of the chip layer; and a thermal conduit from a surface of the at least one device to the front surface of the chip layer, the thermal conduit comprising at least one thermally conductive structure extending through the structural material between the back surface and front surface of the chip layer, the thermal conduit facilitating extraction of heat from the at least one device disposed over the back surface of the chip layer to the front surface of the chip layer.