IP Library Granted Patent US 9,773,748
Granted Patent B2
US 9,773,748 · App. 15/116,145 · Granted Sep 26, 2017

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 & SUMIKIN MATERIALS CO., LTD.
H01L24/45H01L24/43H01L2224/45572H01L2224/45847H01L2224/45944H01L2224/45964H01L2224/4801H01L2224/48844H01L2224/48864
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Patent No.
US 9,773,748
App. No.
15/116,145
Granted
Sep 26, 2017
Kind
B2
Abstract

A bonding wire for a semiconductor device including a coating layer having Pd as a main component on the surface of a Cu alloy core material and a 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 a metallic element of Group 10 of the Periodic Table of Elements in a total amount of 0.1 to 3.0% by mass, thereby achieving improvement in 2nd bondability and excellent ball bondability in a high-humidity heating condition. Furthermore, a maximum concentration of Au in the skin alloy layer is preferably 15 at % to 75 at %.

Claims (17)

1. A bonding wire for a semiconductor device comprising:

a core material having Cu as a main component and containing a metallic element of Group 10 of the Periodic Table of Elements in a total amount of 0.1% by mass or more and 3.0% by mass or less;

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 at % or more and 10 at % or less, and the metallic element of Group 10 of the Periodic Table of Elements comprises Ni.

2. The bonding wire for a semiconductor device according to claim 1 , wherein the metallic element of Group 10 of the Periodic Table of Elements further comprises either or both of Pd and Pt.

3. 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 nm or more and 90 nm or less, and

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

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

the core material further contains Au, and

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

5. 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% by mass or more and 0.01% by mass or less.

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

7. The bonding wire for a semiconductor device according to claim 1 , 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 axis direction has a proportion of 30% or more among crystal orientations in the wire axis direction.

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 Aug 4, 2016
From: YAMADA, TAKASHI; ODA, DAIZO; OISHI, RYO; UNO, TOMOHIRO
To: NIPPON MICROMETAL CORPORATION; NIPPON STEEL & SUMIKIN MATERIALS CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 039347/0430 →
Priority Claims (1)
WO PCT/JP2015/071002 · Jul 23, 2015 · international
Continuity (1)
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