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Circuit wafer and TEG test pad electrode

US5654582A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateMay 5, 1995
Grant dateAug 5, 1997
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Expiry dateMay 5, 2015

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH01L2224/50
  • WIPO fieldSemiconductors
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A semiconductor wafer and semiconductor device manufactured from the wafer. The wafer has a conductive layer 33A intermittently formed in the longitudinal direction of a scribe area 2. The conductive layer's width shorter width than its length and shaped so that the scribe area is cut in the longtitudinal direction including the location of said width. The invention provides a semiconductor wafer not giving rise to faults, such as short-circuiting due to shavings, and not requiring any modification in the scribed width, blade width, or pad size when sawing conductive layers in the scribe area, such as the above-mentioned pads of the TEG.

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