Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an interposer substrate assembly such that an integrated circuit chip can be reworked, and to provide an electronic device assembly and a method of manufacturing them. SOLUTION: A substrate 310 is fabricated of a material having a first thermal expansivity; and an interposer 330 is fabricated of a material having a second thermal expansivity different from the first expansivity. There is a coefficient of thermal expansion mismatch between the substrate 310 and the interposer 330 or chip 320. The interposer 330 is coupled to the substrate 310 via a first plurality of electrical contacts 315 and an underfill adhesive 316 at least partially surrounding the electrical contacts 315 to bond the interposer 330 to the substrate 310, thereby reducing strain applied on the first electrical contacts 315. The integrated circuit chip 320 is coupled to the interposer 330 via a second plurality of electrical contacts 325 without use of an adhesive surrounding the second plurality of electrical contacts 325. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT
Abstract:
Certain organic polymeric materials are capable of reversibly accepting or donating electrons from a reducing entity. The redox sites in the polymer accept electrons and, as a result, a change in the properties of the polymer occurs. This change is useful in modifying or etching the polymeric material. The material can be modified by incorporation of metallic seeds into the material at a controlled depth. The seeds are incorporated by interaction of cations of the metals with the redox sites in the polymer, which cause the reduction of the cations to form the neutral metallic seeds. Subsequent exposure of the polymeric material containing the seeds to an electroless bath causes further deposition of metal having the desirable characteristic of good adhesion to the polymeric material. Etching of the polymeric material can be carried out as a result of an increase in solubility of the polymer in aprotic solvents when its redox sites have accepted electrons. The increased solubility allows openings to be etched in certain areas of the polymeric material that have been reduced, leaving other areas unchanged.
Abstract:
An electrochemical color change cell incorporating as a color changing agent intramolecular charge transfer salt or an intermolecular charge transfer salt. The intermolecular charge transfer salts and the intramolecular charge transfer salts have a plurality of oxidation states and a wide variation in color change. The intermolecular and intramolecular charge transfer salts preferably contain a violene moiety and a moiety having a carbonyl group conjugated to an aromatic moiety. The intramolecular charge transfer salts have a stable covalent radical-anion/radical-cation configuration. The intermolecular charge transfer salts have a stable ionic radical-anion/radical-cation configuration.
Abstract:
Chips mounted into substrates are often encapsulated with a cured epoxy which is insoluble. The invention herein is the discovery that diepoxides with ketal linkages are soluble. This permits encapsulating chips, testing them for goodness and removing the chips for rework by dissolving the epoxy without destroying the chip or substrate.