Pd/a-Si:H界面的光电子能谱研究

本文利用光电子能谱(XPS、UPS)技术研究了Pd淀积层与离子注入制备的a-Si∶H层组成的系统.本工作分析了Pd/a-Si∶H的界面键合状态及组分分布的变化对价带谱与芯能级谱的影响,并与Pd/C-Si系统的结果进行了比较.结果表明:Pd/a-Si∶H界面具有与Pd/C-Si界面相似的电子结构;但是,Pd原子在a-Si∶H中具有较大的扩散速率,因此,处于更富Si的环境中。     

Ni/Pd/Au镀层的键合可靠性

研究了陶瓷外壳不同厚度Ni/Pd/Au镀层的键合可靠性,并分析了金丝球焊、硅铝丝楔焊和粗铝丝楔焊经300℃不同时间贮存后键合强度变化及键合失效模式变化,并与Ni/Au镀层键合进行了对比。研究结果表明,随着Au层厚度的增加,相同键合参数、相同镀层的金丝球焊的键合强度一致性有明显提升,随高温贮存时间增加,Ni/Pd/Au镀层的金丝键合强度一致性变差;相同实验条件下、不同镀层外壳的硅铝丝键合强度基本一致,300℃、1 h贮存后硅铝丝键合强度降低,随着高温贮存时间的增加,硅铝丝键合强度变化不大;随Au层厚度的增加,粗铝丝楔焊键合强度一致性变差,且失效模式主要为键合点脱落。     

场助GaAs-玻璃键合工艺的研究

本文较详细地研究了场助GaAs-玻璃键合工艺,在键合前将GaAs和玻璃用H_2等离子体处理.AES结果表明,CaAs表面的本征氧化层被还原,从而使GaAs-玻璃容易键合上,比较了单点接触电极和双平行板电极对键合界面的影响,从SEM断面的图象看出,用单点接触电极得到的键合界面较好.直拉法的结果表明,键合强度大于GaAs体单晶的强度.     

场助GaAs—玻璃键合工艺的研究

本文较详细地研究了场助GaAs-玻璃键合工艺,在键合前将GaAs和玻璃用H_2等离子体处理.AES结果表明,CaAs表面的本征氧化层被还原,从而使GaAs-玻璃容易键合上,比较了单点接触电极和双平行板电极对键合界面的影响,从SEM断面的图象看出,用单点接触电极得到的键合界面较好.直拉法的结果表明,键合强度大于GaAs体单晶的强度.     

GaAs/InP低温晶片键合的研究

将硫脲溶液用于GaAs/InP基材料低温晶片键合的表面处理工艺,实现了GaAs/InP基材料间简单、无毒性的低温(380 ℃)晶片键合.并通过界面形貌,解理后断裂面,键合强度及键合界面I-V特性对键合晶片进行了分析.     

铜线键合Cu/Al界面金属间化合物微结构研究

由于铜线具有较高的热导率、卓越的电学性能以及较低的成本,被普遍认为将逐渐代替传统的金线而在IC封装的键合工艺中得到广泛的应用。铜线键合工艺中Cu/Al界面金属间化合物(IMC)与金线键合的Au/Al IMC生长情况有很大差别,本文针对球焊键合中键合点的Cu/Al界面,将金属间化合物生长理论与分析手段相结合,研究了Cu/Al界面IMC的生长行为及其微结构。文中采用SEM测试方法,观察了IMC的形貌特点,测量并得到了IMC厚度平方正比于热处理时间的关系,计算得到了生长速率和活化能数值,并采用TEM,EDS等测试手段,进一步研究了IMC界面的微结构、成分分布及其金相结构。     

硅片直接键合机理及快速热键合工艺

本文的理论与实验结果说明,硅片表面吸附的OH团是室温下硅片相互吸引的主要根源。采用SIMS和红外透射谱定量测量了OH吸附量。开发了表面活化技术。发现键合强度随温度而增大是键合面积增加所致。SiO_2/SiO_2键合之界面中各种物质的扩散及氧化层粘滞流动可以消除界面微观间隙。经表面活化的两硅片经室温贴合,150℃预键合,800℃,2小时退火后经1200℃,2分钟快速热键合可实现完善的键合且原有杂质分布改变很小,为减薄工艺提供了一个技术基础。     

无压力辅助硅/玻璃激光局部键合

提出了一种新的无需外压力作用的硅/玻璃激光局部键合方法,通过对晶圆进行表面活化处理,选择合适的激光参数及加工环境,成功地实现了无压力辅助硅/玻璃激光键合.同时研究了该键合工艺参数如激光功率、激光扫描速度、底板材料等的影响.实验表明,激光功率越大,扫描速度越小,键合线的宽度就越大.实验结果显示,该方法能有效减少键合片的残余应力,控制键合线宽,并能得到较好的键合强度.该工艺可为MEMS器件的封装与制造提供简洁、快速、键合区可选择的新型键合方法.     

无压力辅助硅/玻璃激光局部键合

提出了一种新的无需外压力作用的硅/玻璃激光局部键合方法,通过对晶圆进行表面活化处理,选择合适的激光参数及加工环境,成功地实现了无压力辅助硅/玻璃激光键合.同时研究了该键合工艺参数如激光功率、激光扫描速度、底板材料等的影响.实验表明,激光功率越大,扫描速度越小,键合线的宽度就越大.实验结果显示,该方法能有效减少键合片的残余应力,控制键合线宽,并能得到较好的键合强度.该工艺可为MEMS器件的封装与制造提供简洁、快速、键合区可选择的新型键合方法.     

镀钯铜丝芯片键合工艺控制和可靠性研究

随着金价的不断上升,集成电路封装成本越来越高。为此,集成电路封装厂商纷纷推出铜线键合来取代金丝键合,以缓解封装成本压力。但是纯铜丝非常容易氧化,为了提高键合生产效率及产品可靠性,目前封装厂商主要采用镀钯铜丝作为键合丝。对集成电路镀钯铜丝键合生产技术和工艺控制方法进行了探讨,并和金丝及纯铜丝工艺控制进行了比较分析。对镀钯铜丝键合工艺主要失效模式进行了介绍和说明,并就弹坑检测试验方法进行了比较分析和总结。特别是对特殊产品的弹坑检测试验如何才能确保结果准确,进行了实例分析。     

浅谈镀钯铜线的特性

随着金线价格一路上涨并创下历史新高,大型封装厂正在加大对铜线制程的投入。通过封装厂多年的摸索,发现镀钯铜线是金线很好的替代品。文章分析了镀钯铜线作为键合线材料本身的基本性质,镀钯铜线引线键合的特征和镀钯铜线PCT实验的可靠性。通过分析发现镀钯铜线材料本身有优良的导电和导热特性,同时还有很好的抗氧化性。镀钯铜线在键合过程中需要保护气体的保护,通过硬度实验发现镀钯铜线的硬度较大,因此需要在键合过程中防止弹坑的出现。通过PCT实验证实镀钯铜线具有较好的可靠性。     

Direct gold and copper wires bonding on copper

The key to bonding to copper die is to ensure bond pad cleanliness and minimum oxidation during wire bonding process. This has been achieved by applying a organic coating layer to protect the copper bond pad from oxidation. During the wire bonding process, the organic coating layer is removed and a metal to metal weld is formed. This organic layer is a self-assembled monolayer. Both gold and copper wires have been wire-bonded successfully to the copper die even without prior plasma cleaning. The ball diameter for both wires are 60 μm on a 100 μm fine pitch bond pad. The effectiveness of the protection of the organic coating layer starts from the wafer dicing process up to the wire bonding process and is able to protect the bond pad for an extended period after the first round of wire bond process. In this study, oxidization of copper bond pad at different packaging processing stages, dicing and die attach curing, have been explored. The ball shear strength for both gold and copper ball bonds achieved are 5 and 6 g/mil² respectively. When subjected to high temperature storage test at 150 °C, the ball bonds formed by both gold and copper wire bond on the organic coated copper bondpad are thermally stable in ball shear strength up to a period of 1440 h. The encapsulated daisy chain test vehicle with both gold and copper wires bonding have passed 1000 cycles of thermal cycling test (−65 to 150 °C). It has been demonstrated that orientation imaging microscopy technique is able to detect early levels of oxidation on the copper bond pad. This is extremely important in characterization of the bondability of the copper bond pad surface.     

Room temperature wedge-wedge ultrasonic bonding using aluminum coated copper wire

The purpose of this work is to evaluate the feasibility of room temperature wedge-wedge bonding using commercially available copper wires, coated with aluminum. Bonding quality, reliability and aging resistance of the wire bonds have been investigated using standard wire pull tests immediately after bonding and after accelerated life tests, including temperature storage at 125 °C, 150 °C, and 200 °C for up to 2000 h. Using focused ion beam (FIB-) preparation and high resolution electron microscopy (SEM, TEM combined with EDX X-ray analysis), results of microstructure investigations of the Al-coating/Cu wire interface as well as of the bonding interconnect formed between the coated wire and the metallization on ceramic substrate will be presented. These investigations provide background information regarding the binding mechanisms and material interactions, and contribute to assess and to avoid potential reliability risks. Due to the found advantageous bond processing behavior and increased reliability properties, our results indicate that room temperature wedge-wedge bonding of coated copper wires has a remarkable application potential, for instance in medical and other high reliability as well as high power applications. It combines all known advantages of usual copper bonding like excellent contacting behavior, high reliability and favorable material price with the possibility of processing temperature damageable components and considerable improved storage capability. Therefore, room temperature bonding using coated copper wire can also reduce cycle time, manufacturing and material costs.     

Challenges and developments of copper wire bonding technology

Copper wire bonding has been studied for more than two decades. While copper wire bonding has many advantages over gold wire bonding, many challenges have to be solved to meet its application requirements. This paper presents the measures to overcome Cu oxidation, the optimization of bonding parameters and the improvement in capillary design. The reliability mechanism of copper wire bonding is described from the standpoints of IMC growth, pad Al squeeze and the ability of wire looping. The challenges of copper wire bonding on low-k wafers and some solutions are also briefly introduced.     

The development of Cu bonding wire with oxidation-resistant metal coating

Although Cu bonding wire excels over Au bonding wire in some respects such as production costs, it has not been widely used because of its poor bondability at second bonds due to surface oxidation. We conceived an idea of electroplating oxidation-resistant metal on the Cu bonding wire to prevent the surface oxidation. The electroplating of Au, Ag, Pd, and Ni over Cu bonding wire all increased bond strengths as expected, but it caused problematic ball shapes except Pd-plated Cu bonding wire. The wire could produce the same ball shape as that of Au bonding wire. It was also proved to have excellent bondability sufficient to replace Au bonding wire. That is, it excelled in bond strengths, defective bonding ratio, and wideness of "Parameter Windows". It also showed the same stability as Au bonding wire in reliability tests, while bonds of Cu bonding wire were deteriorated in a few of the tests. In short, the Pd-plated Cu bonding wire can realize excellent bonding similar to Au bonding wire, while having much lower production costs.     

铜线键合技术的发展与挑战

铜线键合技术近年来发展迅速,超细间距引线键合是目前铜线键合的主要发展趋势.介绍了铜线键合的防氧化措施以及键合参数的优化,并从IMC生长及焊盘铝挤出方面阐述了铜线键合的可靠性机理.针对铜线在超细间距引线键合中面临的问题,介绍了可解决这些问题的镀钯铜线的性能,并阐述了铜线的成弧能力及面临的挑战.     

Overview of wire bonding using copper wire or insulated wire

Wire bonding using copper or insulated wire leads to many advantages and new challenges. Research is intensively performed worldwide, leading to many new findings and solutions. This article reviews recent advances in wire bonding using copper wire or insulated wire for advanced microelectronics packaging. Journal articles, conference articles and patents published or issued recently are reviewed. The benefits and problems/challenges related to wire bonding using copper wire or insulated wire such as wire open and short tail defects, poor bondability for stitch/wedge bonds, oxidation of Cu wire, and stiff wire on weak support structures, are briefly analyzed. A number of solutions to the problems and recent findings/developments related to wire bonding using copper wire or insulated wire are discussed. With the references provided, readers may explore more deeply by reading the original articles and patent documents.     

铜丝球键合工艺及可靠性机理

文章针对铜丝键合工艺在高密度及大电流集成电路封装应用中出现的一系列可靠性问题,对该领域目前相关的理论和研究成果进行了综述,介绍了铜丝球键合工艺、键合点组织结构及力学性能、IMC生长情况、可靠性机理及失效模式。针对铜丝球键合工艺中易氧化、硬度高等难点,对特定工艺进行了阐述,同时也从金属间化合物形成机理的角度重点阐述了铜丝球键合点可靠性优于金丝球键合点的原因。并对铜丝球键合及铜丝楔键合工艺前景进行了展望。     

Comparison of the copper and gold wire bonding processes for LED packaging

Wire bonding is one of the main processes of the LED packaging which provides electrical interconnection between the LED chip and lead frame. The gold wire bonding process has been widely used in LED packaging industry currently. However, due to the high cost of gold wire, copper wire bonding is a good substitute for the gold wire bonding which can lead to significant cost saving. In this paper, the copper and gold wire bonding processes on the high power LED chip are compared and analyzed with finite element simulation. This modeling work may provide guidelines for the parameter optimization of copper wire bonding process on the high power LED packaging.     

Study of free air ball formation in Ag–8Au–3Pd alloy wire bonding

An innovative Ag–8Au–3Pd alloy wire has been developed as an alternative to the traditional gold wire bonding. This paper focused on the free air ball (FAB) formation of 0.7 mil Ag–8Au–3Pd alloy wire, which was vital for the yield of the subsequent bonding process. During electric flame-off (EFO) process, the wire tail was melted by a high voltage spark, and then the FAB was shaped by the effects of surface tension and gravity. The EFO current was the key factor to influence the Ag–8Au–3Pd alloy FAB size and morphology due to the energy input via arc discharging. The defects including off-center and ripple appeared on the Ag–8Au–3Pd alloy FABs were discussed by cooling and solidification. It is suggested that low EFO current will effectively avoid FAB defects. The contaminants on the Ag–8Au–3Pd alloy FAB surface were analyzed by Auger electron spectroscopy (AES). Under the protection of the shielding gas, oxidation and sulfuration have been effectively prevented.