Abstract:
The invention relates to a process for preparing interconnection substrates of hybrid circuits, comprising effecting on a support the deposition of a thick layer of ink or paste based on a non-noble metal, such as copper or other material having a "copper compatible" formulation, by carrying out in succession a preliminary drying for eliminating solvents at a temperature on the order of 100.degree. C. to 150.degree. C., a firing comprising:a) a temperature rise incorporating a stage for eliminating polymer resins,b) a sintering step at a temperature on the order of 600.degree. C. to 1000.degree. C., andc) a timed cooling,the firing being carried out under a substantially inert gas atmosphere (nitrogen and/or argon and/or helium), the atmosphere of the stage for eliminating the polymer resins having a content of water vapor lower than 15,000 ppm, preferably between 1,000 and 10,000 ppm, while the atmosphere for sintering at high temperature has a content of water vapor in any case lower than 1,000 ppm.
Abstract:
The invention concerns glass-metal sealing comprising effecting on a metallic piece, in particular an alloy based on iron and nickel or iron, nickel and cobalt, first of all a decarburization under an atmosphere, at a temperature of between 950.degree. C. and 1,150.degree. C., formed by hydrogen (10 to 99%), water vapor (1 to 8%), with a ratio hydrogen/water vapor higher than five, the possible remainder being nitrogen, then an oxidation under an atmosphere formed by an inert vector gas such as nitrogen, either at a temperature of 600.degree. C. to 800.degree. C. and with a water vapor content of 8% to 2%; or at a temperature of 900.degree. C. to 1,100.degree. C. and with a water vapor content of 4% to 0.5%; then establishing the connection. The gas mixture for a treatment atmosphere is obtained by mixing nitrogen and hydrogen conducted through pipes (13, 14), to which oxygen is added through a pipe (15) upstream of a catalytic chamber (11) permitting the elimination of the oxygen and the production of a content of water vapor.
Abstract:
A circuit board is wave soldered as it is carried by a conveyor through a solder wave established in a solder reservoir. Disposed on both sides of the solder wave are gas plenums which discharge shield gas. Each gas plenum includes a top wall, a side wall, and a bottom wall. The side wall is spaced horizontally from the wave, and the bottom wall is submerged within the solder. The side and (optionally) top walls include orifices for directing shield gas (i) at high velocity toward the solder wave to protect the solder wave with an atmosphere of shield gas, and (ii) upwardly toward an underside of the circuit board to strip entrained air therefrom. Instead of being submerged within the solder, the bottom wall could be spaced above the solder and provided with orifices to emit shield gas downwardly between the plenum and solder reservoir to create an inert atmosphere above the solder. Dividers disposed within the plenum form sub-chambers communicating with orifices in respective walls of the plenum so that different gas velocities can be entitled from the orifices. The gas plenums can be rotatably adjustable and further adjustable either vertically or horizontally.
Abstract:
The present invention provides a method of forming a free standing shape made of a material containing refractory metal, which entails providing a mandrel in a CVD enclosure, injecting a refractory halide gas and a reducing gas in the enclosure, reacting the gases in the enclosure to generate a material containing refractory metal, growing a layer of the material containing refractory metal on the mandrel and removing the mandrel to obtain the free standing shape, wherein the reducing gases is a silicon hydride gas or a mixture thereof.
Abstract:
The invention concerns the production of ceramic-metal multilayer components comrising effecting, after making up in the crude state, in particular by metallization and stacking of pre-cut raw ceramic bands, a simultaneous firing operation, termed cofiring, on the components under an atmosphere based on hydrogen or nitrogen or a mixture of hydrogen and nitrogen, having a regulated water vapor content at a temperature of first of all between 800.degree. C. and 1800.degree. C., and more precisely either at a moderately high temperature plateau between 800.degree. C. and 1300.degree. C. for certain ceramic materials such as codierite and metallic materials such as copper and nickel, or at a temperature plateau between about 1400.degree. C. and 1800.degree. C. for refractory materials such as tungsten, molybdenum, alumina, according to which the atmosphere having a water vapor content is obtained by addition to a vector gas at (13) and (14) of a quantity of additional oxygen (15), and a quantity of additional hydrogen at (14) sufficient to obtain by hydrogen-oxidation reaction the predetermined water vapor content, and determining these quantities of addition of oxygen and the contingent addition of hydrogen so that said water vapor content is, in the course of the cofiring, that which is the most appropriate for the different stages of said cofiring.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a wave soldering process wherein an inert gas atmosphere is injected inside the wave soldering machine, the inert gas atmosphere having a temperature which might be controlled. Particularly, the atmosphere can be heated at the same or different temperatures before injection, for example in the preheating zones, in the machine. The atmosphere can also be cooled (or injected at ambient temperature) e.g. in the cooling zone. Various atmospheres can be used (similar or different from one zone to another). Also, maintaining the atmosphere under forced laminer flow conditions improves the quality of the solder joints. The thermal efficiency of the heat transfer between the atmosphere and the printed circuit boards is thus greatly enhanced, which means less solder defects, higher components density and decrease of energy consumption and inert gas flow rate.
Abstract:
Metallization of ceramics of the type comprising depositing a metallic paste based on molybdenum and/or tungsten and manganese on a ceramic substrate and effecting the sintering of the paste in an atmosphere having a predetermiend oxido-reduction potential, with a rise in and a maintenance of a temperature between 1300.degree. C. and 1600.degree. C., then cooling to ambient temperature, with production of an atmosphere by the addition to a pure neutral gas of a quantity of additional oxygen and a quantity of hydrogen at least sufficient to subsequently obtain by catalytic reaction the desired content of water vapour and contingently the excess content of hydrogen.
Abstract:
The process comprises, after deposition of a layer of raw ink on a support having a high thermal dissipation, of the aluminium nitride type, effecting a preliminary drying of this ink at a temperature on the order of 100.degree. C. to 150.degree. C., then a firing comprising:(a) a temperature rise including a polymer resin eliminating stage,(b) a sintering plateau at a temperature on the order of 600.degree. C. to 1000.degree. C., and(c) a timed cooling,wherein the atmosphere of the polymer resin eliminating stage has an oxygen content of between 100 ppm and 5000 ppm, while the oxygen contents of the high temperature sintering atmosphere and of the cooling atmosphere must be lower than about 10 ppm.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a process of making a high purity silicide target comprising the steps of providing a substrate in a CVD enclosure, evacuating said enclosure up to a pressure P1 which is at least equal to or smaller than 5.times.10.sup.-5 Torr, heating the substrate at a temperature T1, which is at least equal to or greater than 20.degree. C., injecting in said enclosure a refractory metal halide MXm having a purity, as far as metallic impurities are concerned, greater than 5N (99,999%) and a silicon hydride having a purity, as far as metallic impurities are concerned, greater than 6N (99,9999%) setting the pressure in the enclosure between about 0.01 Torr and the atmospheric pressure while maintaining the temperature in the CVD enclosure between about 20.degree. C., growing a refractory metal silicide layer on the substrate to make a target having a purity, as far as metallic impurities are concerned, greater than 5N (99,99%), maintaining the temperature in the enclosure during said growing step at a value T2 which is not greater than T1, then withdrawing the target from said CVD enclosure.