Patent ID: 8623762

Claim:
A method for producing a semiconductor device, comprising the steps of: providing a substrate of a semiconductor material with a buried terminal pad of electrically conductive material; removing, from an upper side of the substrate, the semiconductor material over the terminal pad to make an opening; depositing a dielectric layer; within the opening, exposing the terminal pad; depositing a metallization, which contacts the terminal pad and is separated from the substrate by the dielectric layer; depositing a compensation layer, which completely covers the metallization within the opening, on a bottom of the opening, on side walls of the opening and on a region of an upper side of the device along the rim of the opening and outside of the opening; and depositing a passivation layer, which is separated from the metallization by the compensation layer within the opening, into the opening and on the upper side of the device outside of the opening, wherein the compensation layer is a polymer.