• Journal of the Semiconductor & Display Technology
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• v.3 no.3
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• pp.31-35
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• 2004

A blue light emitting diode with 8 periods InGaN/GaN multi-quantum well structure grown by metal-organic chemical vapor deposition was fabricated with the inclusion of the metal-interconnection process in order to integrate the chips for light lamp. The quantum well structure provides the blue light photoluminescence peaked at 479.2 nm at room temperature. As decreasing the temperature to 20 K, the main peak was shifted to 469.7 nm and a minor peak at 441.9 nm appeared indicating the quantum dot formation in quantum wells. The current-voltage measurement for the fabricated LED chips shows that the metal-interconnection provides good current path with ohmic resistance of 41 $\Omega$.

• Journal of the Semiconductor & Display Technology
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• v.4 no.3 s.12
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• pp.17-22
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• 2005

LED lamp was designed by the serial-parallel integration of LED chips in metal-interconnection. The 7 $4.5{\times}4.5\;in^{2}$ masks were designed with the contact type of chrome-no mirror?dark. The white epitaxial thin film was grown by metal-organic chemical vapor deposition. The active layers were consisted with the serial order of multi-quantum wells for blue, green and red lights. The fabricated LED chip showed the electroluminescence peaked at 450, 560 and 600 nm. For the current injection of 20 mA, the operating voltage was measured to 4.25 V and the optical emission power was obtained to 0.7 $\mu$W.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.793-796
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• 2005

In this paper, we propose a method which can improve uniformity of a miniaturized electron beam array for inspection of very small pattern with high speed using vertical interconnection. This method enables the individual control of columns so that it can reduce the deviation of beam current, beam size, scan range and so on. The test device that used vertical interconnection method was fabricated by multiple wafer bonding and metal reflow. Two silicon and one glass wafers were bonded and metal interconnection by melting of electroplated AuSn was performed. The contact resistance was under $10{\Omega}$.

• Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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• v.52 no.1
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• pp.26-39
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• 2014

Cu interconnection in electronic devices is fabricated via damascene process including Cu electrodeposition. In this review, Cu electrodeposition and superfilling for fabricating Cu interconnection are introduced. Superfilling results from the influences of organic additives in the electrolyte for Cu electrodeposition, and this is enabled by the local enhancement of Cu electrodeposition at the bottom of filling feature formed on the wafer through manipulating the surface coverage of organic additives. The dimension of metal interconnection has been constantly reduced to increase the integrity of electronic devices, and the width of interconnection reaches the range of few tens of nanometer. This size reduction raises the issues, which are the deterioration of electrical property and the reliability of Cu interconnection, and the difficulty of Cu superfilling. The various researches on the development of organic additives for the modification of Cu microstructure, the application of pulse and pulse-reverse electrodeposition, Cu-based alloy superfilling for improvement of reliability, and the enhancement of superfilling phenomenon to overcome the current problems are addressed in this review.

• Journal of the Microelectronics and Packaging Society
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• v.29 no.2
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• pp.33-41
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• 2022

Recent necessities of research have emerged about soft interconnection technologies for stable electric connections in flexible electronics. Mechanical failure in conventional metal solder interconnection can be solved as soft interconnections based on a small elastic modulus and a thin thickness. To enable stable electric connection while improving mechanical properties, highly conductive materials be thinned or mixed with a material that has a small elastic modulus. Representative soft interconnection technologies such as thin-film metallization, flexible conductive adhesives, and liquid metal interconnections are presented in this paper, and be focused on mechanical/electric properties improving strategies and their applications.

• Proceedings of the International Microelectronics And Packaging Society Conference
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• 2001.11a
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• pp.146-150
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• 2001

Microwave model and high-frequency measurement of the ACF flip-chip interconnection was investigated using a microwave network analysis. S-parameters of on-chip and substrate were separately measured in the frequency range of 200 MHz to 20 GHz using a microwave network analyzer HP8510 and cascade probe. And the cascade transmission matrix conversion was performed. The same measurements and conversion techniques were conducted on the assembled test chip and substrate at the same frequency range. Then impedance values in ACF flip-chip interconnection were extracted from cascade transmission matrix. ACF flip chip interconnection has only below 0.1nH, and very stable up to 13 GHz. Over the 13 GHz, there was significant loss because of epoxy capacitance of ACF. However, the addition of SiO$_2$filler to the ACF lowered the dielectric constant of the ACF materials resulting in an increase of resonance frequency up to 15 GHz. High frequency behavior of metal Au stud bumps was investigated. The resonance frequency of the metal stud bump interconnects is higher than that of ACF flip-chip interconnects and is not observed at the microwave frequency band. The extracted model parameters of adhesive flip chip interconnects were analyzed with the considerations of the characteristics of material and the design guideline of ACA flip chip for high frequency applications was provided.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Surface Engineering Conference
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• 2015.05a
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• pp.81-81
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• 2015

inkjet printing system으로 flexible 기판위에 metal interconnection 혹은 metal mesh를 제작 할 때 metal과 flexible substrate 의 접착력을 향상 시키고 선폭을 조절하기 위하여 surface roughness를 생성 시키고 표면을 hydrophobic 하게 개질 하였다. 그 결과 metal line의 선폭과 접착력이 향상됨을 알 수 있었다.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics
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• v.25 no.3
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• pp.302-307
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• 1988

A noble interconnection line capacitance measurement method to be able to remove the measurement errors from the probe pad to substrate stray capacitance has been proposed and verified. The measurement errors in the capacitance measurement, which usually be involved from the probe pad to substrate stray capacitance, can easily be removed by isolating the metal probe pad from the substrate with a grounded shield plate between the probe pad the substrate. The measurement results by using this improved capacitance measurement method were compared with the calculations by two-dimensional computer simulations.

• Transactions on Electrical and Electronic Materials
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• v.14 no.6
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• pp.304-307
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• 2013

Reverse engineering of semiconductor devices utilizes delayering processes, in order to identify how the interconnection lines are stacked over transistor gates. Cu metal has been used in recent fabrication technologies, and de-processes becomes more difficult with the shrinking device dimensions. In this article, reverse engineering technologies to reveal the Cu interconnection lines and Cu via-plugs embedded in dielectric layers are investigated. Stacked dielectric layers are removed by $CF_4$ plasma etching, then the exposed planar Cu metal lines and via-plugs are selectively delineated by wet chemical solution, instead of the commonly used plasma-based dry etch. As a result, we have been successful in extracting the layouts of multiple layers within a system IC, and this technique can be applicable to other logic IC, analog IC, and CMOS IC, etc.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 2008.11a
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• pp.171-171
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• 2008

본 연구는 초음파 알루미늄 웨지 및 금 볼 본딩을 동시에 적용 가능한 본딩 Pad의 금속학적 안정성을 고려한 표층전극 형성 방법에 관한 것이다. 특히, 이동통신 및 전장용 모듈의 복합 및 융합화로 LTCC기판 패키징에 있어서 다양한 본딩 기술이 요구되고 있다. 전통적인 interconnection 기술인 Au ball 본딩 및 초음파 에너지를 이용한 Al wedge 본딩 기술이 동시에 사용되어야 하는 패키지 구조의 경우 본딩 패드의 표층전극 설계는 서로 상충되는 조건이 요구된다. 따라서, 본 연구에서는 LTCC기판의 표층전극의 Metal finish 방법으로 이용되는 ENEPIG(무전해 Ni/Pd/Au도금)공법으로 Au ball 본딩 및 초음파 Al wedge 본딩을 동시에 가능하게 하는 solution을 제시하여 패키징 자유도뿐만 아니라 Interconnection 신뢰성을 확보할 수 있었다.