摘要:
A simplified process for flip-chip attachment of a chip to a substrate is provided by pre-coating the chip with an encapsulant underfill material having separate discrete solder columns therein to eliminate the conventional capillary flow underfill process. Such a structure permits incorporation of remeltable layers for rework, test, or repair. It also allows incorporation of electrical redistribution layers. In one aspect, the chip and pre-coated encapsulant are placed at an angle to the substrate and brought into contact with the pre-coated substrate, then the chip and precoated encapsulant are pivoted about the first point of contact, expelling any gas therebetween until the solder bumps on the chip are fully in contact with the substrate. There is also provided a flip-chip configuration having a complaint solder/flexible encapsulant understructure that deforms generally laterally with the substrate as the substrate undergoes expansion or contraction. With this configuration, the complaint solder/flexible encapsulant understructure absorbs the strain caused by the difference in the thermal coefficients of expansion between the chip and the substrate without bending the chip and substrate.
摘要:
Thermally conductive, sinterable, adhesive compositions, free of fugitive solvents, that include a powder of a relatively high melting point metal or metal alloy, a powder of a relatively low melting point metal or metal alloy powder and a thermally curable adhesive flux composition that comprises (i) a polymerizable fluxing agent; (ii) an inerting agent to react with the fluxing agent at elevated temperature, rendering it inert. The fluxing agent preferably comprises a compound with formula RCOOH, wherein R comprises a moiety having one or more polymerizable carbon-carbon double bonds. Optionally, the inventive compositions also include (a) a diluent that is capable of polymerizing with the fluxing agent's polymerizable carbon-carbon double bonds; (b) free radical initiators; (c) a curable resin; and (d) crosslinking agents and accelerators. The compositions can be applied directly onto the surfaces of devices to be joined mechanically and/or electrically and are ideally suited for semiconductor die attachment. During heating, the fluxing agent promotes wetting of the high melting point powder by the molten low melting point powder, causing liquid phase sintering of the powders. The fluxing agent also promotes wetting of the metallizations on the die and substrate by the molten low melting point alloy, providing improved thermal conductivity. Simultaneously, the fluxing agent itself crosslinks to further mechanically bond the adherent surfaces. The absence of fugitive solvents creates a void-free bond.