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Reliability study of interconnect structures in IC packages

  • Yong Liu
  • , Yumin Liu
  • , Scott Irving
  • , Timwah Luk
  • , Don Desbiens
  • , Zhen Zhang
  • , Zhigang Suo
  • Fairchild Semiconductor Corporation
  • Harvard University

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

2 Scopus citations

Abstract

This paper will focus on reliability study of interconnect structure for two areas. The first area is reliability of interconnect structure in thermal cycling test. Major work includes the fundamental study of ratcheting for passivation cracking. By combination with the upper limit of stress intensity factor for a finite crack in the passivation and the ratcheting failure mechanism, the life of passivation in thermal cycling can be obtained in terms of the lower bound of critical number of cycles of the crack initiation. The passivation crack criterion is established to identify the failure modes: no cracking and delayed cracking. Another area is the reliability of bond pand over active (BPOA) with copper bond pads. Major work includes stress analysis of the dielectric layer under probing with different parameters such as the thickness of the copper bond pad, dielectric, metallization and the passivation under different probing loads. The elastic plastic model in copper bond pad and metal lines are introduced. Finally comparison of the results between copper bond pad and aluminum bond pad will be presented.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication7th International Conference on Thermal, Mechanical and Multiphysics Simulation and Experiments in Micro-Electronics and Micro-Systems, EuroSimE 2006
DOIs
StatePublished - 2006
Externally publishedYes
Event7th International Conference on Thermal, Mechanical and Multiphysics Simulation and Experiments in Micro-Electronics and Micro-Systems, EuroSimE 2006 - Como, Italy
Duration: 24 Apr 2006 → 26 Apr 2006

Publication series

Name7th International Conference on Thermal, Mechanical and Multiphysics Simulation and Experiments in Micro-Electronics and Micro-Systems, EuroSimE 2006
Volume2006

Conference

Conference7th International Conference on Thermal, Mechanical and Multiphysics Simulation and Experiments in Micro-Electronics and Micro-Systems, EuroSimE 2006
Country/TerritoryItaly
CityComo
Period24/04/06 → 26/04/06

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