摘要:
Disclosed is an improved cutting-and-transferring system for cutting and separating a workpiece into pellets. The workpiece is held by a holder member. The system comprises: a holding table for holding a workpiece to be cut; a cutting unit including at least cutting means for cutting the workpiece on the holding table into pellets; a transferring unit including at least transferring means for picking up the pellets from the holder member and for transferring to a selected carrier tray; and a shuttle transfer unit for transferring a selected cut workpiece from the cutting unit to the transferring unit. All these parts work automatically in unison, thus reducing the length of time involved for cutting workpieces into pellets and for loading carrier trays with pellets to possible minimum.
摘要:
A wafer processing method transfers an optical device layer (ODL) in an optical device wafer (ODW) to a transfer substrate. The ODL is formed on the front side of an epitaxy substrate through a buffer layer, and is partitioned by a plurality of crossing streets to define a plurality of regions where optical devices are formed. The transfer substrate is bonded to the front side of the ODL. The transfer substrate and the ODL are cut along the streets. The transfer substrate is attached to a supporting member, and a laser beam is applied to the epitaxy substrate from the back side of the epitaxy substrate to the unit of the ODW and the transfer substrate. The focal point of the laser beam is set in the buffer layer, thereby decomposing the buffer layer. The epitaxy substrate is then peeled off from the ODL.
摘要:
A processing method for a package substrate having a base substrate partitioned by a plurality of crossing division lines to form a plurality of chip forming areas where a plurality of semiconductor chips are respectively formed and molded with resin. The package substrate has a resin surface and an electrode surface opposite to the resin surface. The processing method includes a warp correcting step of cutting the package substrate from the resin surface or the electrode surface along the division lines by using a cutting blade to form a cut groove, thereby correcting a warp of the package substrate, and a grinding step of grinding the resin surface of the package substrate in the condition where the electrode surface of the package substrate is held on a holding table after performing the warp correcting step, thereby reducing the thickness of the package substrate to a predetermined thickness.
摘要:
An optical device wafer processing method for dividing an optical device wafer into individual optical devices along a plurality of crossing streets formed on the front side of the wafer. The wafer is composed of a substrate and an optical device layer formed on the front side of the substrate. The individual optical devices are respectively formed in a plurality of regions partitioned by the streets. The optical device wafer processing method includes the steps of cutting the back side of the substrate along each street by using a cutting blade to thereby form a first cut groove as a first break start point on the back side of the substrate along each street, cutting the front side of the wafer along each street by using a cutting blade after forming the first cut groove to thereby form a second cut groove as a second break start point on the front side of the wafer along each street so that the second cut groove has a depth reaching the front side of the substrate, and applying an external force to the wafer after forming the second cut groove to thereby break the wafer along each street where the first and second cut grooves are formed, thereby dividing the wafer into the individual optical devices.
摘要:
A wafer processing method of processing a wafer having on a front surface a device area where a plurality of devices are formed by being sectioned by predetermined dividing lines, and an outer circumferential redundant area surrounding the device area, includes the steps of: sticking a protection tape to the front surface of the wafer; holding a protection tape side of the wafer by a rotatable chuck table, positioning a cutting blade on a rear surface of the wafer, and rotating the chuck table to cut a boundary portion between the device area and the outer circumferential redundant area to form a separation groove; grinding only the rear surface of the wafer corresponding to the device area to form a circular recessed portion to leave the ring-like outer circumferential redundant area as a ring-like reinforcing portion, the wafer being such that the device area and the ring-like outer circumferential redundant area are united by the protection tape; and conveying the wafer supported by the ring-like reinforcing portion via the protection tape.
摘要:
A method of processing a wafer having a plurality of streets formed on the front surface in a lattice pattern and a plurality of devices formed in a plurality of areas sectioned by the plurality of streets, comprising an adhesive tape amounting step for mounting the front surface of the outer peripheral portion of an adhesive tape having an adhesive layer on the front surface and a plurality of via holes onto an opening of an annular frame to cover it; a frame fixing step for placing the rear surface of the adhesive tape mounted on the annular frame on the chuck table for suction-holding a workpiece of a processing machine and fixing the annular frame; a wafer affixing step for placing the wafer on the front surface of the wafer affixing area of the adhesive tape, suction-holding the adhesive tape on the suction-holding area of the chuck table by exerting suction-force to the suction-holding area, and sucking the wafer to affix it to the front surface of the adhesive tape; and a processing step for processing the wafer along the streets.
摘要:
An exposure method for exposing a resist film disposed on one surface of a wafer includes a first exposure step of locating an exposure mask at a first predetermined position with respect to the wafer, and exposing the resist film. The exposure method further includes a second exposure step of displacing the exposure mask relative to the wafer by a predetermined dimension in a predetermined direction to locate the exposure mask at a second predetermined position, and exposing the resist film.
摘要:
A semiconductor wafer processing method for planarizing an additional layer formed on the front side of a semiconductor wafer. First, the wafer is held on a chuck table included in a cutting device in the condition where the additional layer is exposed, and a table base supporting the chuck table is moved toward a working position. In concert with the movement of the table base, the exposed surface of the additional layer is cut by a bit of a cutting tool rotationally driven by a spindle motor. Thereafter, the exposed surface of the additional layer is polished by a polishing device to planarize the exposed surface of the additional layer.
摘要:
A manufacturing method for devices including a wafer supporting step of mounting an adhesive film to the lower surface of a wafer and attaching the wafer through the adhesive film to the upper surface of a dicing tape mounted on an annular frame, a laser processing step of applying a pulsed laser beam having an absorption wavelength to the wafer along separation lines formed on the upper surface of the wafer after mounting the adhesive film to the dicing tape, thereby separating the wafer into the individual devices and cutting the adhesive film, and a pickup step of expanding the dicing tape after performing the laser processing step to thereby increase the spacing between any adjacent ones of the individual devices, and peeling off to pick up each of the individual devices from the dicing tape in the condition where the adhesive film is mounted on the lower surface of each device.
摘要:
When a plate-shaped material, such as a CSP substrate, that does not require exact precision is divided, a cutting machine is provided with not only first and second chuck tables, but also first and second cutting units. Then, each plate-shaped material, which is placed on a respective chuck table, is aligned immediately before it is cut, so that the Y-axis index control and the X-axis cutting movement control are established for cutting by the cutting units. A cutting portion is cut in the first direction by the first cutting unit according to the Y-axis index control and the X-axis cutting movement control, and subsequently a cutting portion is cut in the second direction by the second cutting unit. Hence, the cutting portions of the plate-shaped materials placed on the first and second chuck tables are cut by the first and second cutting units by sharing a role.