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In this study, the packaging of an RF filter with a through-glass via (TGV) interposer was designed and fabricated using a three-dimensional wafer-level package (3D WLP). TGV fabrication is a high-yielding process, which can produce high precision vias without masking and lithography and reduce the manufacturing cost compared with the through silicon via (TSV) solution. The glass interposer capping wafer contains Cu-filled TGV, a metal redistribution layer (RDL), and the bonding layer. The RF filter substrate with Au bump is bonded to the capping wafer based on Au-Sn transient liquid phase (TLP) bonding at 280 \u00b0C with a 40 kN (approximately 6.5 MPa) bonding force. Experimental results show that shear strengths of approx. 54.5 MPa can be obtained, higher than the standard requirement (~6 MPa). In addition, a comparison of the electrical performance of the RF filter package after the pre-conditional level three (Pre-Con L3) and unbiased highly accelerated stress (uHAST) tests showed no difference in insertion attenuation across the passband (&lt;0.2 dB, standard value: &lt;1 dB). The final packages passed the reliability tests in the field of consumer electronics. The proposed RF filter WLP achieves high performance, low cost, and superior reliability.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s22062114","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,3,10]],"date-time":"2022-03-10T02:10:35Z","timestamp":1646878235000},"page":"2114","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":18,"title":["Development of 3D Wafer Level Hermetic Packaging with Through Glass Vias (TGVs) and Transient Liquid Phase Bonding Technology for RF Filter"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"22","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-3795-5981","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Zuohuan","family":"Chen","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Electronic Science and Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-8065-2612","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Daquan","family":"Yu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Electronic Science and Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Yi","family":"Zhong","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Electronic Science and Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,3,9]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"4548","DOI":"10.1109\/TMTT.2018.2854160","article-title":"Microwave Acoustic Wave Devices: Recent Advances on Architectures, Modeling, Materials, and Packaging","volume":"66","author":"Hagelauer","year":"2018","journal-title":"IEEE Trans. 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