Effect of 0.5 wt % Cu in Sn−3.5%Ag Solder Balls on the Solid State Interfacial Reaction with Au/Ni/Cu Bond Pads for Ball Grid Array (BGA) Applications

2005 ◽  
Vol 17 (9) ◽  
pp. 2223-2226 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. O. Alam ◽  
Y. C. Chan ◽  
K. N. Tu ◽  
J. K. Kivilahti
Author(s):  
Luis A. Curiel ◽  
Andrew J. Komrowski ◽  
Daniel J.D. Sullivan

Abstract Acoustic Micro Imaging (AMI) is an established nondestructive technique for evaluation of electronic packages. Non-destructive evaluation of electronic packages is often a critical first step in the Failure Analysis (FA) process of semiconductor devices [1]. The molding compound to die surface interface of the Plastic Ball Grid Array (PBGA) and Plastic Quad Flat Pack (PQFP) packages is an important interface to acquire for the FA process. Occasionally, with these packages, the standard acoustic microscopy technique fails to identify defects at the molding compound to die surface interface. The hard to identify defects are found at the edge of the die next to the bond pads or under the bonds wires. This paper will present a technique, Backside Acoustic Micro Imaging (BAMI) analysis, which can better resolve the molding compound to die surface interface at the die edge by sending the acoustic signal through the backside of the PBGA and PQFP packages.


2018 ◽  
Vol 54 (5) ◽  
pp. 4115-4123 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiang Zhou ◽  
Ying Zhu ◽  
Xiang Ke ◽  
Kaili Zhang

2018 ◽  
Vol 39 (12) ◽  
pp. 1908-1911
Author(s):  
Eung Chang Lee ◽  
Jinsung Rho ◽  
Heeyoub Kang ◽  
Bong Jae Lee

2015 ◽  
Vol 2015 (CICMT) ◽  
pp. 000067-000072
Author(s):  
Bradley A. Thrasher ◽  
William E. McKinzie ◽  
Deepukumar M. Nair ◽  
Michael A. Smith ◽  
Allan Beikmohamadi ◽  
...  

Presented here are the design, fabrication, and measurement results of a low temperature cofired ceramic (LTCC) chip-to-interposer transition utilizing a flip-chip ball grid array (BGA) interconnect that provides excellent electrical performance up to and including 80 GHz. A test board fabricated in LTCC is used as the interposer substrate and another smaller LTCC part is used as a surrogate chip for demonstration purposes. The BGA chip-to-interposer transition is designed as a back-to-back pair of transitions with an assembly consisting of an LTCC interposer, an LTCC test chip, and a BGA interconnect constructed with 260 μm diameter polymer core solder balls. The LTCC material employed is DuPont™ GreenTape™ 9K7. Full-wave simulation results predict excellent electrical performance from 10 MHz to 80 GHz, with the chip-to-interposer BGA transition having less than 0.5 dB insertion loss at 60 GHz and less than 1 dB insertion loss up to 80 GHz. In an assembled package (back-to-back BGA transitions), the insertion loss was measured to be 1 dB per transition at 60 GHz and less than 2 dB per transition for all frequencies up to 80 GHz.


2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 (1) ◽  
pp. 000112-000116
Author(s):  
Joelle Arnold ◽  
Steph Gulbrandsen ◽  
Nathan Blattau

The risk of damage caused by reballing SnPb eutectic solder balls onto a commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) active flip chip with a ball grid array (BGA) of SAC305 was studied. The effects of reballing performed by five different reballers were examined and compared. The active flip chip device selected included manufacturer specified resistance between eight (8) differential port pairs. The path resistance between these pins following reballing, as compared to an unreballed device, was used to assess damage accumulation in the package. 2-dimensional x-ray microscopy, acoustic microscopy, and x-ray computer tomography were also used to characterize the effects of reballing. These studies indicated that no measureable damage was incurred by the reballing process, implying that reballed devices should function as well as non-reballed devices in the same application.


Author(s):  
Jae Chang Kim ◽  
Joo-Ho Choi ◽  
Yeong K. Kim

In this paper, comparisons of the design optimization of ball grid array packaging geometry based on the elastic and viscoelastic material properties are made. Six geometric dimensions of the packaging are chosen as input variables. Molding compound and substrate are modeled as elastic and viscoelastic, respectively. Viscoplastic finite element analyses are performed to calculate the strain energy densities (SED) of the eutectic solder balls. Robust design optimizations to minimize SED are carried out, which accounts for the variance of the parameters via Kriging dimension reduction method. Optimum solutions are compared with those by the Taguchi method. It is found that the effects of the packaging geometry on the solder ball reliability are significant, and the optimization results are different depending on the materials modeling.


2007 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 113-123
Author(s):  
Po-Cheng Shih ◽  
Kwang-Lung Lin

Sn–8Zn–3Bi solder paste and Sn–3.2Ag–0.5Cu solder balls were reflowed simultaneously at 240 °C on Cu/Ni/Au metallized ball grid array substrates. The joints without Sn–Zn–Bi addition (only Sn–Ag–Cu) were studied as a control system. Electrical resistance was measured after multiple reflows and aging. The electrical resistance of the joint (R1) consisted of three parts: the solder bulk (Rsolder bulk, upper solder highly beyond the mask), interfacial solder/intermetallic compound (Rsolder/IMC), and the substrate (Rsubstrate). R1 increased with reflows and aging time. Rsolder/IMC, rather than Rsolder bulk and Rsubstrate, seemed to increase with reflows and aging time. The increase of R1 was ascribed to the Rsolder/IMC rises. Rsubstrate was the major contribution to R1. However Rsolder/IMC dominated the increase of R1 with reflows and aging. R1 of Sn–Zn–Bi/Sn–Ag–Cu samples were higher than that of Sn–Ag–Cu samples in various tests.


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