• 마이크로전자및패키징학회지
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• 제25권1호
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• pp.41-45
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• 2018

기술의 발전과 전자기기의 소형화와 함께 반도체의 크기는 점점 작아지고 있다. 이와 동시에 반도체 성능의 고도화가 진행되면서 입출력 단자의 밀도는 높아져 패키징의 어려움이 발생하였다. 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위한 방법으로 산업계에서는 팬아웃 웨이퍼 레벨 패키지(FO-WLP)에 주목하고 있다. 또한 FO-WLP는 다른 패키지 방식과 비교해 얇은 두께, 강한 열 저항 등의 장점을 가지고 있다. 하지만 현재 FO-WLP는 생산하는데 몇 가지 어려움이 있는데, 그 중 한가지가 웨이퍼의 휨(Warpage) 현상의 제어이다. 이러한 휨 변형은 서로 다른 재료의 열팽창계수, 탄성계수 등에 의해 발생하고, 이는 칩과 인터커넥트 간의 정렬 불량 등을 야기해 대량생산에 있어 제품의 신뢰성 문제를 발생시킨다. 이러한 휨 현상을 방지하기 위해서는 패키지 재료의 물성과 칩 사이즈 등의 설계 변수의 영향에 대해 이해하는 것이 매우 중요하다. 이번 논문에서는 패키지의 PMC 과정에서 칩의 두께와 EMC의 두께가 휨 현상에 미치는 영향을 유한요소해석을 통해 알아보았다. 그 결과 특정 칩과 EMC가 특정 비율로 구성되어 있을 때 가장 큰 휨 현상이 발생하는 것을 확인하였다.

• 한국마이크로전자및패키징학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국마이크로전자및패키징학회 2003년도 기술심포지움 논문집
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• pp.53-58
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• 2003

The Wafer Level Packaging is one of the most important technologies in the semiconductor industry today. Its primary advantages are its small form factor and low cost potential for manufacturing including test procedure. The CASIO's WLP samples, application example and the structure are shown in Fig.1, 2&3. There are dielectric layer , under bump metal, re-distribution layer, copper post , encapsulation material and terminal solder .The key technologies are 'Electroplating thick copper process' and 'Unique wafer encapsulation process'. These are very effective in getting electrical and mechanical advantages of package. (Fig. 4). CASIO and CMK are developing a new System Packaging technology called the Embedded Wafer Level Package (EWLP) together. The active components (semiconductor chip) in the WLP structure are embedded into the Printed Wiring Board during their manufacturing process. This new technical approach has many advantages that can respond to requirements for future mobile products. The unique feature of this EWLP technology is that it doesn't contain any solder interconnection inside. In addition to improved electrical performance, EWLP can enable the improvement of module reliability. (Fig.5) The CASIO's WLP Technology will become the effective solution of 'KGD problem in System Packaging'. (Fig. 6) The EWLP sample shown in Fig.7 including three chips in the WLP form has almost same structure wi_th SoC's. Also, this module technology are suitable for RF and Analog system applications. (Fig. 8)

• Transactions on Electrical and Electronic Materials
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• 제15권2호
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• pp.91-95
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• 2014

This paper presents the structure and process technology of simple and low-cost wafer-level packaging (WLP) for thin film radio frequency (RF) devices. Low-cost practical micromachining processes were proposed as an alternative to high-cost processes, such as silicon deep reactive ion etching (DRIE) or electro-plating, in order to reduce the fabrication cost. Gold (Au)/Tin (Sn) alloy was utilized as the solder material for bonding and hermetic sealing. The small size fabricated WLP of $1.04{\times}1.04{\times}0.4mm^3$ had an average shear strength of 10.425 $kg/mm^2$, and the leakage rate of all chips was lower than $1.2{\times}10^{-5}$ atm.cc/sec. These results met Military Standards 883F (MIL-STD-883F). As the newly proposed WLP structure is simple, and its process technology is inexpensive, the fabricated WLP is a good candidate for thin film type RF devices.

• 반도체디스플레이기술학회지
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• 제18권1호
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• pp.65-69
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• 2019

The cure properties of ethoxysilyl diglycidyl isocyanurate(Ethoxysilyl-DGIC) and ethylsilyl diglycidyl isocyanurate (Ethylsilyl-DGIC) epoxy resin systems with a phenol novolac hardener were investigated for anticipating fan out-wafer level package(FO-WLP) applications, comparing with ethoxysilyl diglycidyl ether of bisphenol-A(Ethoxysilyl-DGEBA) epoxy resin systems. The cure kinetics of these systems were analyzed by differential scanning calorimetry with an isothermal approach, and the kinetic parameters of all systems were reported in generalized kinetic equations with diffusion effects. The isocyanurate type epoxy resin systems represented the higher cure conversion rates comparing with bisphenol-A type epoxy resin systems. The Ethoxysilyl-DGIC epoxy resin system showed the highest cure conversion rates than Ethylsilyl-DGIC and Ethoxysilyl-DGEBA epoxy resin systems. It can be figured out by kinetic parameter analysis that the highest conversion rates of Ethoxysilyl-DGIC epoxy resin system are caused by higher collision frequency factor. However, the cure conversion rate increases of the Ethylsilyl-DGEBA comparing with Ethoxysilyl-DGEBA are due to the lower activation energy of Ethylsilyl-DGIC. These higher cure conversion rates in the isocyanurate type epoxy resin systems could be explained by the improvements of reaction molecule movements according to the compact structure of isocyanurate epoxy resin.

• 마이크로전자및패키징학회지
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• 제26권1호
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• pp.29-33
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• 2019

전자패키지 크기의 소형화와 전자기기의 성능 향상이 함께 이루어지면서 높은 입출력 밀도 구현이 중요한 요소로서 평가받고 있다. 이를 구현하기 위해 팬아웃 웨이퍼 레벨 패키지(FO-WLP)가 큰 주목을 받고 있다. 하지만 FO-WLP는 휨(Warpage) 현상에 취약하다는 약점이 있다. 휨 현상은 생산 수율 감소와 더불어 패키지 신뢰성 하락에 큰 원인이므로 이를 최소화하는 것이 필수적이다. 유한요소해석을 이용한 재질의 물성 등 FO-WLP의 휨 현상과 연관된 요소에 대한 많은 연구가 진행되어 왔지만, 대부분의 연구는 이러한 요소들의 불확실성을 고려하지 않았다. 재질의 물성, 칩의 위치 등 패키지의 휨 현상과 연관된 요소들은 제조 측면에서 보았을 때 불확실성을 가지고 있기 때문에, 실제 결과와 더 가깝게 모사하기 위해서는 이러한 요소들의 불확실성이 고려되어야 한다. 이번 연구에서는 FO-WLP 과정 중 칩의 탄성 계수가 정규 분포를 따르는 불확실성을 가졌을 때 휨 현상에 미치는 영향을 유한요소해석을 통해 알아보았다. 그 결과 칩의 탄성 계수의 불확실성이 최대 von Mises 응력에 영향을 미치는 것을 확인하였다. Von Mises 응력은 전체 패키지 신뢰성과 관련된 인자이기 때문에 칩의 물성에 대한 불확실성 제어가 필요하다.

• 반도체디스플레이기술학회지
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• 제3권3호
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• pp.5-9
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• 2004

A new wafer level packaging scheme is presented as an alternative to MEMS package. The proof-of-concept structure is fabricated and evaluated to confirm the feasibility of the idea for MEMS wafer level packaging. The scheme of this work is developed using an electroplated tin (Sn) solder. The critical difference over conventional ones is that wafers are laterally bonded by solder reflow after LEGO-like assembly. This lateral bonding scheme has merits basically in morphological insensitivity and its better bonding strength over conventional ones and also enables not only the hermetic sealing but also its electrical interconnection solving an open-circuit problem by notching through via-hole. The bonding strength of the lateral bonding is over 30 Mpa as evaluated under shear and the hermeticity of the encapsulation is 2.0$\times10^{-9}$mbar.$l$/sec as examined by pressurized Helium leak rate. Results show that the new scheme is feasible and could be an alternative method for high yield wafer level packaging.

• 반도체디스플레이기술학회지
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• 제19권1호
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• pp.29-35
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• 2020

The cure characteristics of three kinds of naphthalene type epoxy resins(NET-OH, NET-MA, NET-Epoxy) with a 2-methyl imidazole(2MI) catalyst were investigated for preparing sheet epoxy molding compound(SEMC) for wafer level package(WLP) applications, comparing with diglycidyl ether of bisphenol-A(DGEBA) and 1,6-naphthalenediol diglycidyl ether(NE-16) epoxy resin. The cure kinetics of these systems were analyzed by differential scanning calorimetry with an isothermal approach, and the kinetic parameters of all systems were reported in generalized kinetic equations with diffusion effects. The NET-OH epoxy resin represented an n-th order cure mechanism as like NE-16 and DGEBA epoxy resins, however, the NET-MA and NET-Epoxy resins showed an autocatalytic cure mechanism. The NET-OH and NET-Epoxy resins showed higher cure conversion rates than DGEBA and NE-16 epoxy resins, however, the lowest cure conversion rates can be seen in the NET-MA epoxy resin. Although the NETEpoxy and NET-MA epoxy resins represented higher cure reaction conversions comparing with DGEBA and NE-16 resins, the NET-OH showed the lowest cure reaction conversions. It can be figured out by kinetic parameter analysis that the lowest cure conversion rates of the NET-MA epoxy resin are caused by lower collision frequency factor, and the lowest cure reaction conversions of the NET-OH are due to the earlier network structures formation according to lowest critical cure conversion.

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제56권12호
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• pp.2217-2220
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• 2007

In this paper, we propose a new wafer level package (WLP) for the RF MEMS applications. The Film Bulk Acoustic Resonator (FBAR) are fabricated and hermetically packaged in a new wafer level packaging process. With the use of Au-Sn eutectic bonding method, we bonded glass cap and FBAR device wafer which has groove-shaped via formed in the backside. The device wafer includes a electrical bonding pad and groove-shaped via for connecting to the external bonding pad on the device wafer backside and a peripheral pad placed around the perimeter of the device for bonding the glass wafer and device wafer. The glass cap prevents the device from being exposed and ensures excellent mechanical and environmental protection. The frequency characteristics show that the change of bandwidth and frequency shift before and after bonding is less than 0.5 MHz. Two packaged devices, Tx and Rx filters, are attached to a printed circuit board, wire bonded, and encapsulated in plastic to form the duplexer. We have designed and built a low-cost, high performance, duplexer based on the FBARs and presented the results of performance and reliability test.

• 한국재료학회지
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• 제17권7호
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• pp.347-351
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• 2007

Vertical interconnect technology called 3D stacking has been a major focus of the next generation of IC industries. 3D stacked devices in the vertical dimension give several important advantages over conventional two-dimensional scaling. The most eminent advantage is its performance improvement. Vertical device stacking enhances a performance such as inter-die bandwidth improvements, RC delay mitigation and geometrical routing and placement advantages. At present memory stacking options are of great interest to many industries and research institutes. However, these options are more focused on a form factor reduction rather than the high performance improvements. In order to improve a stacked device performance significantly vertical interconnect technology with wafer level stacking needs to be much more progressed with reduction in inter-wafer pitch and increases in the number of stacked layers. Even though 3D wafer level stacking technology offers many opportunities both in the short term and long term, the full performance benefits of 3D wafer level stacking require technological developments beyond simply the wafer stacking technology itself.

• 한국마이크로전자및패키징학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국마이크로전자및패키징학회 2001년도 추계 기술심포지움
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• pp.119-123
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• 2001

In this paper, a new structure and fabrication method for the wafer level package(WLP) is presented. A packaged VLSI chip is encapsulated by a parylene(which is a low k material) layer as a dielectric layer and is molded by SUB photo-epoxy with dielectric constant of 3.0 at 100 MHz. The electrical parameters (R, L, C) of package traces are extracted by using the Maxwell 3-D simulator. Based on HSPICE simulation results, the proposed wafer level package can operate for frequencies up to 20GHz.