Abstract:
A method for circuit fabrication includes inspecting an array of solder bumps on a circuit substrate so as to identify a solder bump having a height above the substrate that is greater than a predefined maximum. A first laser beam is directed toward the identified solder bump so as to ablate a selected amount of a solder material from the identified solder bump. Alternatively or additionally, a further solder bump having a height above the substrate that is less than a predefined minimum is identified, and one or more molten droplets of the solder material are deposited on the further solder bump. After ablating or depositing the solder material, a second laser beam is directed toward the identified solder bump with sufficient energy to cause the solder material in the identified solder bump to melt and reflow.
Abstract:
A method for fabrication includes providing a donor sheet, including a donor substrate, which is transparent in a specified spectral range, a sacrificial layer, which absorbs optical radiation within the specified spectral range and is disposed over the donor substrate, and a donor film, which includes a paste and is disposed over the sacrificial layer. The donor sheet is positioned so that the donor film is in proximity to a target location on an acceptor substrate. A pulsed laser beam impinges on the sacrificial layer with a pulse energy and spot size selected so as to ablate the sacrificial layer, thus causing a viscoelastic jet of the paste to be ejected from the donor film and to deposit, at the target location on the acceptor substrate, a dot having a diameter less than the spot size of the laser beam.
Abstract:
A method for material deposition includes providing a transparent donor substrate (56, 60) having opposing first and second surfaces and multiple donor films (62, 64) including different, respective materials on the second surface. The donor substrate is positioned in proximity to an acceptor substrate (41), with the second surface facing toward the acceptor substrate. Pulses of laser radiation are directed to pass through the first surface of the donor substrate and impinge on the donor films so as to induce ejection of molten droplets containing a bulk mixture of the different materials from the donor films onto the acceptor substrate.
Abstract:
A method of producing a conductive path on a substrate including depositing on the substrate a layer of material having a thickness in the range of 0.1 to 5 microns, including metal particles having a diameter in the range of 10 to 100 nanometers, employing a patterning laser beam to selectably sinter regions of the layer of material, thereby causing the metal particles to together define a conductor at sintered regions and employing an ablating laser beam, below a threshold at which the sintered regions would be ablated, to ablate portions of the layer of material other than at the sintered regions.
Abstract:
A method of producing a conductive path on a substrate including depositing on the substrate a layer of material having a thickness in the range of 0.1 to 5 microns, including metal particles having a diameter in the range of 10 to 100 nanometers, employing a patterning laser beam to selectably sinter regions of the layer of material, thereby causing the metal particles to together define a conductor at sintered regions and employing an ablating laser beam, below a threshold at which the sintered regions would be ablated, to ablate portions of the layer of material other than at the sintered regions.
Abstract:
Optical apparatus includes an acousto-optic medium and an array of multiple piezoelectric transducers attached to the acousto-optic medium. A drive circuit is coupled to apply to the piezoelectric transducers respective drive signals including at least first and second frequency components at different, respective first and second frequencies and with different, respective phase offsets for the first and second frequency components at each of the multiple piezoelectric transducers.