Patent ID: 7868448

Claim:
An electrical component, comprising: a module substrate having: an upper side; an underside; contact surfaces on said upper side; a frame-shaped closed contact region; and external contacts on one of said upper side and said underside; and at least one chip having: a chip substrate having a circumferential edge region on said contact region of said module substrate on all sides thereof and completely and permanently mechanically joined therewith; component structures and terminal surfaces on said chip substrate and facing said module substrate; and said chip substrate being positioned at said module substrate to form a continuous and circumferential permanent joint directly between the frame-shaped closed continuous and circumferential contact region and the circumferential edge region that defines a closed hollow space in which said component structures are disposed between said module substrate and said chip substrate, wherein: said module substrate defines a recess on said upper side opposite a region of said component structures; said closed hollow space is between said chip substrate and said recess of said module substrate; said circumferential edge region of said chip includes silicon; and said mechanically joined connection between said module substrate and said chip is created by a wafer bonding method.