• Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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• 2003.11a
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• pp.1027-1032
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• 2003

Thermo-mechanical behavior of flip-chip plastic ball grid array (FC-PBGA) packages are characterized by high sensitive $Moir{\acute{e}}$ interferometry. $Moir{\acute{e}}$ fringe patterns are recorded and analyzed for several temperatures. Deformation analysis of bending displacements of the packages and average strains in the solder balls for a single-sided package assembly and a double-sided package assembly are presented. The bending displacement of the double-sided package assembly is smaller than that of the single-sided one. The largest of effective strain occurred in the solder ball located at the edge of the chip and its magnitude of the double-sided package assembly is greater than that of single-sided one.

• Journal of the Microelectronics and Packaging Society
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• v.6 no.4
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• pp.61-71
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• 1999

The recent trend toward higher frequencies, miniaturization and lower-cost in wireless communication equipment is demanding high density packaging technologies such flip chip interconnection and multichip module(MCM) as a substitute of conventional plastic package. With analyzing the recently reported research results of the RF flip chip, this paper presents the technical issues and advantages of RF flip chip and suggest the flip chip technologies suitable for the development stage. At first, most of RF flip chips are designed in a coplanar waveguide line instead of microstrip in order to achieve better electrical performance and to avoid the interaction with a substrate. Secondly, eliminating wafer back-side grinding, via formation, and back-side metallization enables the manufacturing cost to be reduced. Finally, the electrical performance of flip chip bonding is much better than that of plastic package and the flip chip interconnection is more suitable for Transmit/Receiver modules at higher frequency. However, the characterization of CPW designed RF flip chip must be thoroughly studied and the Au stud bump bonding shall be suggested at the earlier stage of RF flip chip development.

• Journal of the Microelectronics and Packaging Society
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• v.20 no.3
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• pp.63-69
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• 2013

The warpage of a bottom package of Package on Package(PoP) where a chip was mounted to a substrate by flip chip process was compared to that of a bottom package for which a chip was bonded to a substrate using die attach film(DAF). At the solder reflow temperature of $260^{\circ}C$, the packages processed with flip chip bonding and DAF bonding exhibited warpages of $57{\mu}m$ and $-102{\mu}m$, respectively. At the temperature range between room temperature and $260^{\circ}C$, the packages processed with flip chip bonding and DAF bonding exhibited warpage values ranging from $-27{\mu}m$ to $60{\mu}m$ and from $-50{\mu}m$ to $-15{\mu}m$, respectively.

• Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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• 2007.05a
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• pp.1673-1678
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• 2007

The use of flip-chip type electronic package offers numerous advantages such as reduced thickness, improved environmental compatibility, and downed cost. Despite numerous benefits, flip-chip type packages bare several reliability problems. The most critical issue among them is their electrical performance deterioration upon consecutive thermal cycles attributed to gradual delamination growth through chip and adhesive film interface induced by CTE mismatch driven shear and peel stresses. The electronic package in use is heated continuously by itself. When the crack at a weak site of the electronic package occurs, thermal deformationon the chip side is changed. Therefore, we can measure these micro deformations by using Moire interferometry and find out the crack length.

• Korean Journal of Materials Research
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.91-95
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• 2007

Electromigration characteristics of Sn-3.5Ag flip chip solder bump were analyzed using flip chip packages which consisted of Si chip substrate and electroplated Cu under bump metallurgy. Electromigration test temperatures and current densities peformed were $140{\sim}175^{\circ}C\;and\;6{\sim}9{\times}10^4A/cm^2$ respectively. Mean time to failure of solder bump decreased as the temperature and current density increased. The activation energy and current density exponent were found to be 1.63 eV and 4.6, respectively. The activation energy and current density exponent have very high value because of high Joule heating. Evolution of Cu-Sn intermetallic compound was also investigated with respect to current density conditions.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.20 no.10
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• pp.183-190
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• 2003

Major device failures such as die cracking, interfacial delamination and warpage in flip chip packages are due to excessive heat and thermal gradients- There have been significant researches toward understanding the thermal performance of electronic packages, but the majority of these studies do not take into account the combined effects of thermo-mechanical interactions of the different package constituents. This paper investigates the thermo-mechanical performance of flip chip package constituents based on the finite element method with thermo-mechanically coupled elements. Delaminations with different lengths between the silicon die and underfill resin interfaces were introduced to simulate the defects induced during the assembly processes. The temperature gradient fields and the corresponding stress distributions were analyzed and the results were compared with isothermal case. Parametric studies have been conducted with varying thermal conductivities of the package components, substrate board configurations. Compared with the uniform temperature distribution model, the model considering the temperature gradients provided more accurate stress profiles in the solder interconnections and underfill fillet. The packages with prescribed delaminations resulted in significant changes in stress in the solder. From the parametric study, the coefficients of thermal expansion and the package configurations played significant roles in determining the stress level over the entire package, although they showed little influence on stresses profile within the individual components. These observations have been implemented to the multi-board layer chip scale packages (CSP), and its results are discussed.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.28 no.9
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• pp.1408-1414
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• 2004

The use of flip-chip technology has many advantages over other approaches for high-density electronic packaging. ACF (anisotropic conductive film) is one of the major flip-chip technologies, which has short chip-to-chip interconnection length, high productivity, and miniaturization of package. In this study, thermal fatigue lift of ACF bonding flip-chip package has been predicted. Elastic and thermal properties of ACF were measured by using DMA and TMA. Temperature dependent nonlinear hi-thermal analysis was conducted and the result was compared with Moire interferometer experiment. Calculated displacement field was well matched with experimental result. Thermal fatigue analysis was also conducted. The maximum shear strain occurs at the outmost located bump. Shear stress-strain curve was obtained to calculate fatigue life. Fatigue model for electronic adhesives was used to predict thermal fatigue life of ACF bonding flip-chip packaging. DOE (Design of Experiment) technique was used to find important design factors. The results show that PCB CTE (Coefficient of Thermal Expansion) and elastic modulus of ACF material are important material parameters. And as important design parameters, chip width, bump pitch and bump width were chose. 2$^{nd}$ DOE was conducted to obtain RSM equation far the choose 3 design parameter. The coefficient of determination ($R^2$) for the calculated RSM equation is 0.99934. Optimum design is conducted using the RSM equation. MMFD (Modified Method for feasible Direction) algorithm is used to optimum design. The optimum value for chip width, bump pitch and bump width were 7.87mm, 430$\mu$m, and 78$\mu$m, respectively. Approximately, 1400 cycles have been expected under optimum conditions. Reliability analysis was conducted to find out guideline for control range of design parameter. Sigma value was calculated with changing standard deviation of design variable. To acquire 6 sigma level thermal fatigue reliability, the Std. Deviation of design parameter should be controlled within 3% of average value.

• Journal of the Microelectronics and Packaging Society
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• v.14 no.4
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• pp.9-14
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• 2007

In this study, the thermal reliability on flip chip package with non-conductive pastes (NCPs) was evaluated under accelerated conditions. As the number of thermal shock cycle and the dwell time of temperature and humidity condition increased, the electrical resistance of the flip chip package with NCPs increased. These phenomenon was occurred by the crack between Au bump and Au bump and the delamination between chip or substrate and NCPs during the thermal shock and temperature and humidity tests. And the variation of electrical resistance during temperature and humidity test was larger than that during thermal shock test. Therefore it was identified that the flip chip package with NCPs was sensitive to environment with moisture.

• Proceedings of the International Microelectronics And Packaging Society Conference
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• 2003.09a
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• pp.253-257
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• 2003

The low temperature flip chip technique is applied to the package of the temperature-sensitive devices for LCD systems and image sensors since the high temperature process degrades the polymer materials in their devices. We will introduce the various low temperature flip chip bonding techniques; a conventional flip chip technique using eutectic Bi-Sn (mp: $138^{\circ}C$) or eutectic In-Ag (mp: $141^{\circ}C$) solders, a direct bump-to-bump bonding technique using solder bumps, and a low temperature bonding technique using low temperature solder pads.

• Journal of Surface Science and Engineering
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• v.36 no.2
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• pp.214-225
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• 2003

Trends in microelectronics packages such as low cost, miniaturization, high performance, and high reliability made area array interconnecting technologies including flip chip, CSP (Chip Scale Package) and BGA (Ball Grid Array) mainstream technologies. Underfill technology is used for the reliability of the area array technologies, thus electronics packaging industry regards it as very important technology In this paper, the underfill technology is reviewed and the recent advances in the underfill technology including new processes and materials are introduced. These includes reworkable underfills, no-flow underfills, molded underfills and wafer - level - applied underfills.