IP Library Granted Patent US 8,372,665
Granted Patent B2
US 8,372,665 · App. 13/533,963 · Granted Feb 12, 2013

Manufacturing method for semiconductor integrated device

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Patent No.
US 8,372,665
App. No.
13/533,963
Granted
Feb 12, 2013
Kind
B2
Abstract

In a chip pick-up process after dicing in an assembly process during manufacture of a semiconductor integrated circuit device it is an important subject to diminish a pick-up defect caused by the reduction in thickness of each chip which is proceeding in quick tempo. Particularly, bending of the chip peripheral portion caused by a peeling operation is very likely to induce cracking and chipping of the chip. In the present invention, to solve these problems, in case of peeling a chip from a dicing tape (adhesive tape) or the like while vacuum-chucking the chip by a chucking collet, the flow rate of a vacuum chucking system in the chucking collet is monitored to check a bent state of the chip before complete separation of the first chip from the adhesive tape.

Claims (12)

1. A method for manufacturing a semiconductor integrated circuit device, comprising the steps of:

(a) supplying a plurality of chips divided in individual chip regions while being arranged substantially in their original two-dimensional layout upon a wafer, to a chip treating apparatus with their back surfaces fixed to an adhesive tape; and

(b) vacuum-chucking a surface of a first chip out of the chips with a chucking collet and peeling the adhesive tape from the back surface of the first chip in a state in which the adhesive tape over the back surface of the first chip is vacuum-chucked to an upper surface of a lower base,

the step (b) comprising the following sub-steps of:

(b1) monitoring a bent state of the first chip before complete separation of the first chip from the adhesive tape by measuring the flow rate of a vacuum chucking system of the chucking collet;

(b2) raising a stick-up block as a principal portion of the lower base together with the chucking collet; and

(b3) determining an optimum rise height of the stick-up block on the basis of the monitor information obtained in the sub-step (b1),

the method further comprising a following step of:

(c) after the step (b), vacuum-chucking a surface of a second chip out of the chips with the chucking collet and raising the stick-up block by only a distance corresponding to the optimum rise height in a state in which the adhesive tape over the back surface of the second chip is vacuum-chucked to the upper surface of the lower base.

2. A method according to claim 1 , wherein the first chip is a product chip.

3. A method according to claim 1 , wherein the second chip is a product chip.

4. A method according to claim 1 , wherein an adhesive layer for die bonding is formed beforehand over each of the back surfaces of the first and second chips.

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jul 10, 2015
From: HITACHI HIGH-TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
To: FASFORD TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 036062/0962 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded May 1, 2015
From: RENESAS ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
To: HITACHI HIGH-TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 035550/0502 →