Abstract
It was studied in this article how the flexural strength of bare silicon chips is influenced by adopting dual wafer back-lapping process. The experimental results showed that an additional finishing process after the conventional grinding process improves the flexural strength of bare chips by more than 2-fold. In particular, this work showed that the proper removal of the grinding marks$(Ra=0.1\;{\mu}m)$existing on the wafer back-surface resulting from the grinding process significantly contiributes to the enhancement of chip strength.