Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for producing fine pitch electric conduction pads for flip chip bonding (also referred to as bumps). SOLUTION: Solder bumps which connect an electron device with a substrate or another structure are formed, by plating copper pins of high aspect ratio on a supporting structure, enclosing the pins into barrier materials, plating over the barrier materials with solders, and then, reflowing the solders. This electric structure includes electrical connection members fitted so as to connect with another electric structure. The structure comprises a set of contacts in the electric structure, at least one interface layer attaching to the set of contacts, a set of pads which are disposed on the set of contacts and include the interface layer, a set of electric conduction pins directly attaching to the pads, barrier layers attaching to all exposure surfaces of the set of the pins, and solder layers which enclose the barrier layers. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method of forming a wire bond in an I/C chip. SOLUTION: This method comprises steps of: providing an I/C chip having a conductive pad for wire bonding and at least one dielectric material layer on the pad; forming an opening penetrating the dielectric material layer to expose a part of said pad; forming at least a first conductive layer on the exposed surface of the pad and on the surface of the opening; forming a seed layer on the first conductive layer, applying photoresist onto the seed layer; exposing the photoresist to light and developing the light-exposed photoresist; exposing the surface of the seed layer surrounding the opening; removing the exposed seed layer; removing the photoresist material inside the opening to expose the seed layer; coating at least one second conductive material layer on the seed layer inside the opening; and removing the first conductive layer on the dielectric layer around the opening. The present invention includes the structure obtained by the above method. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
Abstract:
A contact metallurgy structure comprising a patterned dielectric layer having cavities on a substrate; a suicide or germanide layer such as of cobalt and/or nickel located at the bottom of cavities; a contact layer comprising Ti or Ti/TiN located on top of the dielectric layer and inside the cavities and making contact to the suicide or germanide layer on the bottom; a diffusion barrier layer located on top of the contact layer and inside the cavities; optionally a seed layer for plating located on top of the barrier layer; a metal fill layer in vias is provided along with a method of fabrication. The metal fill layer is electrodeposited with at least one member selected from the group consisting of copper, rhodium, ruthenium, iridium, molybdenum, gold, silver, nickel, cobalt, silver, gold, cadmium and zinc and alloys thereof. When the metal fill layer is rhodium, ruthenium, or iridium, an effective diffusion barrier layer is not required between the fill metal and the dielectric. When the barrier layer is platable, such as ruthenium, rhodium, platinum, or iridium, the seed layer is not required.