Abstract:
A method of providing thermal vias in a printed circuit board that includes one or more layers of board material is disclosed. The vias provide for conducting heat from components mounted on the board. One or more holes (4) are provided in a printed circuit board that may include several metal layers. A metal ball (6) is inserted into each hole and subjected to pressure such as to deform said ball, and tightly fixating the resultant slug against the wall (5) of said hole. The deformed ball or slug fixed in the hole, which may have a metallised inner surface, functions to conduct heat and/or electricity between a metallised topside (2) and bottom side (3) of the printed circuit board and also between intermediate metallised layers in the case of a multi-layer board.
Abstract:
Surface mount packages having a plurality of polymer and metallic contacts (e.g., balls) applied thereon and methods of fabricating and utilizing such packages are provided. The polymer balls are employed to improve mechanical compliance of the package; and the metallic (e.g., copper) balls are employed to improve thermal conduction between the package and a substrate to which the package is attached. The polymer balls can be located on a periphery portion of a package where mechanical and thermal stresses are the highest; and the metallic balls can be located on a middle portion of the package. Thus the present invention improves both mechanical stresses and thermal conductivity of a second level packaging interconnection, which in turn improves reliability of an electronic device.
Abstract:
An anisotropically conductive structure for providing electrical interconnection between electronic components, and the process for making such anisotropically conductive structure. The anisotropically conductive structure includes a dielectric matrix having a substantially uniform thickness; an array of vias extending into or through the matrix; a plurality of conductive elements, wherein individual via contains at least one conductive element; a first adhesive layer adhered to the first major surface of the matrix; and optionally, a second adhesive layer adhered to the second major surface of the matrix.
Abstract:
A method of forming metal posts. A fixture having an array of wire guide heads is provided. A conductive wire is threaded through a hole in each wire guide heads. The wire guide heads have a transient electric arcing mechanism for heating the conductive wire so that a teardrop shaped blob of material is formed at the tip of the conductive wire. The wire guide heads on the fixture are pulled towards a substrate, thereby forming a plurality of metal posts over the substrate. The technique of forming metal posts finds applications in the manufacturing of printed circuit board, package substrate (carrier) and silicon wafer.
Abstract:
A solder ball achieves a desired quantity of solder material for a solder joint easily without increasing the thickness of a solder layer formed to cover a core. The solder ball comprises a conductive core having depressions on its outer surface, and a solder layer formed to cover the outer surface of the core in such a way as to fill the depressions of the core. Thus, the quantity of the solder material included in the ball is supplemented by the solder material filled into the depressions. Preferably, the core has a higher melting point than the solder layer and wettability to the solder layer. The core may have a cavity in its inside, thereby forming a shell-shaped core. The core may be made of a porous metal body having pores, in which part of the pores reaches the outer surface of the core, thereby forming the depressions.
Abstract:
A printed wiring board has a circuit substrate 6 having a conductor circuit 5 and a through hole 60, and also has a joining pin 1 inserted into the through hole. The joining pin is manufactured by using a material unmelted at a heating temperature in joining the joining pin to an opposite party pad 81. The joining pin is constructed by a joining head portion 11 greater than an opening diameter of the through hole and forming a joining portion to the opposite party pad, and a leg portion 12 having a size capable of inserting this leg portion into the through hole. The leg portion is inserted into the through hole and is joined to the through hole by a conductive material such as a soldering material 20, etc. A joining ball approximately having a spherical shape instead of the joining pin can be also joined to the through hole by the conductive material.
Abstract:
A ball grid array for a flip-chip assembly. The ball grid array includes a plurality of bumps bonded between an active surface of a semiconductor die and a top surface of a printed circuit board or any type of substrate carrier. The plurality of balls include at least one bump having a core material and an outer layer. The rigidity of the core material is greater than that of the material of the outer layer. Additionally, the melting temperature of the core material is higher than the material of the outer layer. By this arrangement, the core material with an outer layer provides bumps that are substantially uniform in height. In addition, the balls only procure marks or deformation to the core material during burn-in testing and reflow.
Abstract:
A semiconductor device in chip format having a chip which has at least one first insulating layer and electrical connection pads free of the insulating layer is described. On the first insulating layer, interconnects run from the electrical connection pads to base regions of external connection elements. A further applied insulating layer is provided with openings leading from the outside to the base regions of the external connection elements. In the openings there is a conductive adhesive, onto which small balls which are metallic at least on the outside are placed. The semiconductor element can also contain a solder paste instead of a conductive adhesive in the openings, and metallized small plastic balls are placed onto the solder paste. The invention furthermore relates to methods for producing the semiconductor device described.
Abstract:
An integrated circuit assembly has pads of a chip electrically connected to pads of a substrate with rolling metal balls. A pliable material bonds the balls in movable contact with pads of the chip and substrate. Because the balls are relatively free to move, thermal expansion differences that would ordinarily cause enormous stresses in the attached joints of the prior art, simply cause rolling of the balls of the present invention, avoiding thermal stress altogether. Reliability of the connections is substantially improved as compared with C4 solder bumps, and chips can be safely directly mounted to such substrates as PC boards, despite substantial thermal mismatch.
Abstract:
In a circuit board with a conductor circuit formed on an insulating layer, a covering is formed on the conductor circuit and a terminal is connected to the conductor circuit penetrating through the covering to obtain high reliability for the connection between the terminal of the electronic component mounted on the circuit board and that of the circuit board. There is provided a level difference of 3 &mgr;m or less between the surface of the covering and that of the terminal.