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The connective task has two main areas of work, TSV and flip-chip bonding development.
Flip-chip bonding at STFC-RAL |
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There is some worry that the Indium bumps require more pressure to form a bump than should be the case. One suggestion for this high pressure is that the gold used in the UBM is moving into the Indium and forming an Indium/Gold alloy which requires more force to deform. A SEM/FIB/EDX study of an Indium bump formed on a silicon substrate was performed in Glasgow to try and test the hypothesis that the gold had moved into the Indium. The report is found here: |
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The report's conclusion is that the gold does indeed appear to have migrated into the Indium bump. |
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The first indium assembly wafer ID : VMB6NJH die 3
Sensor : CPII Live FE-I4 MPI Guard IBL
Indium_BumpYield_28032014.pptx: Bump Yield Studies March 2013 |
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Indium Flip-Chipped Modules September 2014
Indium bumps require pressure only to make connections so no high temperatures are required to melt alloy, which reduces bowing effects.
Modules under test:
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Bond Force |
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| 14-07-24-S2 |
20kg |
biased to 40V |
| 14-07-25-S2 |
10kg |
short on VDDA line |
| 14-07-25-S4 |
5kg |
biased to 40V (operated at 20V) |
IV Scans
IV Scans on wafer and after processing
Characterisation
USBPix
Bump yield studies performed in August 2014 by Dan Smaranda and Richard Bates
21082014_Indium-DanSmaranda.pdf
RCE System
Bump yield studies performed in September 2014 by Kate Sexton
All modules tuned to and operated at 3000e threshold, 10ToT @ 16ke reference charge.
Bump Yield assessed by performing Threshold Scans with and without sensor bias and performing source scans with Strontium-90 beta source and Americium-241 60keV gamma ray source.
Indium-Characterisation_0914.pptx
Bump yield results
Comments
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Details of the TSV activity are given on the next page. |
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