IP Library Granted Patent US 10,468,370
Granted Patent B2
US 10,468,370 · App. 15/107,427 · Granted Nov 5, 2019

Bonding wire for semiconductor device

Inventors: Takashi Yamada (Saitama, JP); Daizo Oda (Saitama, JP); Ryo Oishi (Saitama, JP); Tomohiro Uno (Tokyo, JP)
Assignees: NIPPON MICROMETAL CORPORATION; NIPPON STEEL CHEMICAL & MATERIAL CO., LTD.
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Patent No.
US 10,468,370
App. No.
15/107,427
Granted
Nov 5, 2019
Kind
B2
Abstract

There is provided a bonding wire for a semiconductor device including a coating layer having Pd as a main component on a surface of a Cu alloy core material and a skin alloy layer containing Au and Pd on a surface of the coating layer, the bonding wire further improving 2nd bondability on a Pd-plated lead frame and achieving excellent ball bondability even in a high-humidity heating condition. The bonding wire for a semiconductor device including the coating layer having Pd as a main component on the surface of the Cu alloy core material and the skin alloy layer containing Au and Pd on the surface of the coating layer has a Cu concentration of 1 to 10 at % at an outermost surface thereof and has the core material containing either or both of Pd and Pt in a total amount of 0.1 to 3.0% by mass, thereby achieving improvement in the 2nd bondability and excellent ball bondability in the high-humidity heating condition. Furthermore, a maximum concentration of Au in the skin alloy layer is preferably 15 at % to 75 at %.

Claims (19)

1. A bonding wire for a semiconductor device comprising:

a core material having Cu as a main component and containing either or both of Pd and Pt in a total amount of 0.1 to 3.0% by mass;

a coating layer having Pd as a main component provided on a surface of the core material; and

a skin alloy layer containing Au and Pd provided on a surface of the coating layer,

wherein a concentration of Cu at an outermost surface of the wire is 1 to 10 at %, and

wherein, when measuring crystal orientations on a cross-section of the core material in a direction perpendicular to a wire axis of the bonding wire, a crystal orientation <100> angled at 15 degrees or less to a wire longitudinal direction has a proportion of 30% or more among crystal orientations in the wire longitudinal direction.

2. The bonding wire for a semiconductor device according to claim 1 , wherein

the coating layer having Pd as a main component has a thickness of 20 to 90 nm, and

the skin alloy layer containing Au and Pd has a thickness of 0.5 to 40 nm and has a maximum concentration of Au of 15 to 75 at %.

3. The bonding wire for a semiconductor device according to claim 1 , wherein

the core material further contains either or both of Au and Ni, and

the total amount of Pd, Pt, Au and Ni in the core material is more than 0.1% by mass and 3.0% by mass or less.

4. The bonding wire for a semiconductor device according to claim 1 , wherein

the bonding wire further contains one or more of P, B, Be, Fe, Mg, Ti, Zn, Ag and Si, and

the total concentration of these elements in the entire wire is in a range of 0.0001 to 0.01% by mass.

5. The bonding wire for a semiconductor device according to claim 1 , wherein an element constituting the core material and an element constituting the skin alloy layer are diffused to the coating layer.

6. The bonding wire for a semiconductor device according to claim 1 , wherein the proportion of the crystal orientation <100> angled at 15 degrees or less to a wire longitudinal direction is 35% or more.

7. The bonding wire for a semiconductor device according to claim 1 , wherein,

a ball to be formed when ball bonding is performed comprises an alloy containing Au, Pd and Cu, or, Au, Pd, Pt and Cu.

Assignments (3)
CHANGE OF ADDRESS FOR NIPPON STEEL CHEMICAL & MATERIAL CO., LTD. Recorded Oct 21, 2020
From: NIPPON STEEL CHEMICAL & MATERIAL CO., LTD.
To: NIPPON STEEL CHEMICAL & MATERIAL CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 054174/0502 →
MERGER AND CHANGE OF NAME Recorded May 15, 2019
From: NIPPON STEEL & SUMIKIN MATERIALS CO., LTD.; NIPPON STEEL CHEMICAL & MATERIAL CO., LTD.
To: NIPPON STEEL CHEMICAL & MATERIAL CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 049837/0872 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jun 23, 2016
From: YAMADA, TAKASHI; ODA, DAIZO; OISHI, RYO; UNO, TOMOHIRO
To: NIPPON MICROMETAL CORPORATION; NIPPON STEEL & SUMIKIN MATERIALS CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 038991/0007 →
Continuity (1)
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