IP Library Granted Patent US 7,591,293
Granted Patent B2
US 7,591,293 · App. 10/528,690 · Granted Sep 22, 2009

Device for bonding a metal on a surface of a substrate

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Patent No.
US 7,591,293
App. No.
10/528,690
Granted
Sep 22, 2009
Kind
B2
Abstract

A device and method for bonding objects to be bonded each having a metal bonding portion on a substrate, comprising cleaning means for exposing the metal bonding portions to a plasma having an energy enough to etch the surfaces of the metal bonding portions at a depth of 1.6 nm or more over the entire surfaces of the metal bonding portions under a reduced pressure and bonding means for bonding the metal bonding portions of the objects taken out of the cleaning means in an atmospheric air. By using a specific scheme, metal bonding portions after the plasma cleaning can be bonded in the atmospheric air, thereby significantly simplifying the bonding process and the whole device and lowering the cost.

Claims (12)

1. A device for bonding objects to be bonded each having a metal bonding portion on a surface of a substrate, comprising:

cleaning means for exposing the surfaces of the metal bonding portions to a plasma having an energy enough to etch the surfaces of the metal bonding portions at a depth of 1.6 nm or more over the entire surfaces of the metal bonding portions under a reduced pressure,

wherein said cleaning means includes an argon plasma irradiating means; and

bonding means for bonding the metal bonding portions of the objects taken out of said cleaning means to each other in an atmospheric air,

wherein said bonding means includes a heating mechanism capable of heating the bonding portions to a temperature of 180° C. or lower,

wherein said bonding means includes a dispersion means for making a dispersion of a gap between the metal bonding portions at the time of bonding to be 4 μm or less at a maximum,

wherein said bonding means includes a roughness means for making a surface roughness of at least one metal bonding portion after bonding to be 10 nm or less,

wherein said bonding means includes an adjusting means for bonding the metal bonding portions to each other at a bonding load of 300 MPa or less,

wherein said bonding means includes means capable of adjusting a parallelism in a bonding area between substrates at the time of bonding the metal bonding portions to each other at 4 μm or less, and

wherein the surfaces of the metal bonding portions to be bonded to each other are both formed from gold,

a surface roughness of at least one metal bonding portion before bonding is made to be 100 nm or less, and

the metal bonding portions have 100 or less in Vickers hardness and are in a form of a plurality of bumps, wherein the bumps of each of the metal bonding portions have a dispersion of bump height of 4 μm or less.

Assignments (7)
CHANGE OF ADDRESS Recorded Nov 29, 2017
From: RENESAS ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
To: RENESAS ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 044928/0001 →
MERGER AND CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Sep 9, 2014
From: RENESAS TECHNOLOGY CORP.; NEC ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
To: RENESAS ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 033698/0648 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Mar 21, 2014
From: OKI SEMICONDUCTOR CO., LTD
To: LAPIS SEMICONDUCTOR CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 032495/0483 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Jul 7, 2012
From: FUJITSU MICROELECTRONICS LIMITED
To: FUJITSU SEMICONDUCTOR LIMITED
Reel/Frame 028509/0795 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 13, 2009
From: FUJITSU LIMITED
To: FUJITSU MICROELECTRONICS LIMITED
Reel/Frame 022248/0521 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Nov 14, 2008
From: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
To: PANASONIC CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 021839/0934 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 22, 2005
From: SUGA, TADATOMO; ITO, TOSHIHIRO; YAMAUCHI, AKIRA
To: SUGA, TADATOMO; TORAY ENGINEERING CO., LTD.; OKI ELECTRIC INDUSTRY CO., LTD.; SANYO ELECTRIC CO., LTD.; SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA; SONY CORPORATION; KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA; FUJITSU LIMITED; MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.; ROHM CO., LTD.; RENESAS TECHNOLOGY CORP.
Reel/Frame 016993/0702 →