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US 9,640,500 · App. 13/960,173 · Granted May 2, 2017

Terminal structure and semiconductor device

Inventors: Kenichi Yoshida (Tokyo, JP); Makoto Orikasa (Tokyo, JP); Hideyuki Seike (Tokyo, JP); Yuhei Horikawa (Tokyo, JP); Hisayuki Abe (Tokyo, JP)
Assignee: TDK CORPORATION
H01L24/13H01L24/03H01L24/05H01L24/11H01L2224/0345H01L2224/0347H01L2224/03462H01L2224/03464H01L2224/0401H01L2224/05022H01L2224/05572H01L2224/05655H01L2224/1147H01L2224/11464H01L2224/11849H01L2224/13005H01L2224/13006H01L2224/13023H01L2224/13111H01L2924/00014
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Patent No.
US 9,640,500
App. No.
13/960,173
Granted
May 2, 2017
Kind
B2
Abstract

The present invention relates to a terminal structure comprising; a base material 10 ; an external electrode 20 formed on the base material; an insulating coating layer 30 formed on the base material and on the electrode and having an opening exposing at least part of the electrode; an under-bump metal layer 70 filling the opening and covering part of the insulating coating layer; and a dome-shaped bump 85 covering the under-bump metal layer, wherein in a cross section along a lamination direction, the under-bump metal layer has a convex shape toward the bump, and the thickness T u0 of the under-bump metal layer at a center of the opening is equal to or greater than the thickness T u1 of the under-bump metal layer at an end portion of the opening.

Claims (18)

1. A terminal structure comprising:

a base material;

an electrode formed on the base material;

an insulating coating layer formed on the base material and on the electrode and having an opening exposing at least part of the electrode;

an under-bump metal layer filling the opening and covering part of the insulating coating layer; and

a dome-shaped bump (i) covering the under-bump metal layer, (ii) being in direct contact with and covering part of the insulating coating layer, and (iii) continuously tapering inward from the insulating coating layer to a top of the dome-shaped bump, wherein:

in a cross section along a lamination direction, the under-bump metal layer has a convex shape toward the dome-shaped bump, and a thickness of the under-bump metal layer at a center of the opening is equal to or greater than the thickness of the under-bump metal layer at an end portion of the opening; and

a ratio R between distance AB from point A to point B and distance BC from point B to point C satisfies the following expression:

R= 0.50≧ BC/AB≧ 0.05.

(i) on an upper surface of the insulating coating layer, point A being a position of an end on the opening side of the insulating coating layer, (ii) point B being a position of an end of the under-bump metal layer, and (iii) on a basis of the upper surface of the insulating coating layer, point C being a position where the thickness of the under-bump metal layer is half the thickness of the under-bump metal layer at point A.

2. The terminal structure according to claim 1 , wherein the dome-shaped bump contains tin as a main component.

3. The terminal structure according to claim 1 , wherein the under-bump metal layer contains nickel as a main component.

4. The terminal structure according to claim 1 , wherein the dome-shaped bump contains titanium.

5. A semiconductor device comprising the terminal structure according to claim 1 .

6. The terminal structure according to claim 1 , wherein the cross-sectional diameter of the dome-shaped bump is the greatest at the insulating coating layer.

7. The terminal structure according to claim 1 , wherein in the cross section along the lamination direction, an upper surface of the under-bump metal layer includes curved portions and a substantially flat portion therebetween.

8. The terminal structure according to claim 3 , wherein the under-bump metal layer contains phosphorous.

9. The terminal structure according to claim 8 , wherein the under-bump metal layer contains 5 to 15 mass % of phosphorous.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 6, 2013
From: YOSHIDA, KENICHI; ORIKASA, MAKOTO; SEIKE, HIDEYUKI; HORIKAWA, YUHEI; ABE, HISAYUKI
To: TDK CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 031058/0142 →
Priority Claims (2)
JP 2012-185043 · Aug 24, 2012 · national
JP 2013-090419 · Apr 23, 2013 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20140054767A1 · Feb 27, 2014