Abstract:
The invention provides a method of testing semiconductor devices (702, 704), prior to their being singulated from a semiconductor wafer. Said method comprises the following steps: permanently mounting a plurality of resilient contact structures (708) directly to a plurality of first terminals on at least one semiconductor device (702, 704) which is resident on a semiconductor wafer, each of said resilient contact structures having a tip and extending from a surface of the semiconductor device; urging a substrate (710) having a plurality of second terminals (712) towards the surface of the semiconductor device to effect a plurality of electrical connections between respective ones of the second terminals and tips of the resilient contact structures; and providing signals to the second terminals of the substrate to exercise the semiconductor device.
Abstract:
A microcontact according to the invention is less than 10 mm in length and composed of a conductive basis material, a base surface treatment layer formed thereon, and an upper surface treatment layer, and includes a contact portion, a terminal portion, and an intermediate portion formed over its entire circumference with exposed oxide surfaces of the base surface treatment layer. The exposed oxide surfaces are formed by irradiating the front and rear surfaces of the contact with laser beams at respective predetermined inclined angles to remove the upper surface treatment layer and simultaneously to oxidize the narrow base surface treatment layer exposed by the removal of the upper surface treatment layer. In this manner, the exposed oxide surfaces can be formed with a high accuracy in a simple manner for stopping solder rise at a predetermined position when the terminal portion of the microcontact is jointed to a substrate by soldering.
Abstract:
A probe card (321) is provided for contacting an electronic component with raised contact elements. In particular, the present invention is useful for contacting a semiconductor wafer (310) with resilient contact elements (301), such as springs. A probe card (321) is designed to have terminals to mate with the contact elements on the wafer (310). In a preferred embodiment, the terminals are posts. In a preferred embodiment the terminals include a contact material suitable for repeated contacts. In one particularly preferred embodiment, a space transformer (324) is prepared with contact posts on one side and terminals on the opposing side. An interposer (325) with spring contacts (333, 334) connects a contact (335) on the opposing side of the space transformer (324) to a corresponding terminal (332) on a probe card (321), which terminal (332) is in turn connected to a terminal (331) which is connectable to a test device such as a conventional tester.
Abstract:
A method of making a temporary connection between a first electronic component and a second electronic component, and subsequently making a permanent connection between the first electronic component and a third electronic component, comprising permanently mounting a plurality of resilient contact structures to a surface of the first electronic component; urging the first electronic component against the second electronic component to effect a temporary connection between the first electronic component and the second electronic component; removing the second electronic component; and mounting the first electronic component to the third electronic component.
Abstract:
A probe card (321) is provided for contacting an electronic component with raised contact elements. In particular, the present invention is useful for contacting a semiconductor wafer (310) with resilient contact elements (301), such as springs. A probe card (321) is designed to have terminals to mate with the contact elements on the wafer (310). In a preferred embodiment, the terminals are posts. In a preferred embodiment the terminals include a contact material suitable for repeated contacts. In one particularly preferred embodiment, a space transformer (324) is prepared with contact posts on one side and terminals on the opposing side. An interposer (325) with spring contacts (333, 334) connects a contact (335) on the opposing side of the space transformer (324) to a corresponding terminal (332) on a probe card (321), which terminal (332) is in turn connected to a terminal (331) which is connectable to a test device such as a conventional tester.
Abstract:
A composite heat sink device (1) includes a heat sink body (2, 3) formed of aluminum, the body (2, 3) having a pair of coplanar surfaces (4), and a thermally conductive solderable element (5), for example of copper, mechanically fixed to each of the coplanar surfaces (4). Each of the solderable elements has a first surface which is contiguous with one of the coplanar surfaces, and a second surface which is soldered to a printed circuit board.
Abstract:
A probe card (321) is provided for contacting an electronic component with raised contact elements. In particular, the present invention is useful for contacting a semiconductor wafer (310) with resilient contact elements (301), such as springs. A probe card (321) is designed to have terminals to mate with the contact elements on the wafer (310). In a preferred embodiment, the terminals are posts. In a preferred embodiment the terminals include a contact material suitable for repeated contacts. In one particularly preferred embodiment, a space transformer (324) is prepared with contact posts on one side and terminals on the opposing side. An interposer (325) with spring contacts (333, 334) connects a contact (335) on the opposing side of the space transformer (324) to a corresponding terminal (332) on a probe card (321), which terminal (332) is in turn connected to a terminal (331) which is connectable to a test device such as a conventional tester.
Abstract:
In a dielectric filter to be mounted on a printed circuit board, a conductive layer (x) formed on the surface of a dielectric substrate (1) includes an electroless copper-plated layer (m) formed on the surface of the substrate, and a conductive covering layer (n) having good dielectric conductivity and good solder wettability and formed on the surface of the electroless copper-plated layer (m). In place of the conductive covering layer (n) or in addition to the conductive covering layer (n), there is provided a protective synthetic resin layer (p) which covers the electroless copper-plated layer (m) or the conductive covering layer (n) and which vanishes upon exposure to heat of molten solder (25). Even when the conductive layer (x) is formed by electroless copper-plating, the conductive layer (x) is free from stain. Moreover, a terminal portion of the conductive layer (x) formed on the surface of the dielectric filter (1) can be soldered to a conductive path formed on a printed circuit board to thereby establish electric connection therebetween.