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EDFA Technical Articles (2016) 18 (1): 22–28.
Published: 01 February 2016
...Lee Levine This article discusses the latest trends in wire bonding and examines common failure mechanisms. This article discusses the latest trends in wire bonding and examines common failure mechanisms. Copyright © ASM International® 2016 2016 ASM International ball bonding...
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EDFA Technical Articles (2024) 26 (3): 28–34.
Published: 01 August 2024
...Norelislam El Hami; Aicha Koulou; Abdelkhalak El Hami A numerical investigation of the probabilistic approach in estimating the reliability of wire bonding is presented along with a reliability based design optimization methodology for microelectronic devices structures. A numerical...
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EDFA Technical Articles (2017) 19 (1): 14–20.
Published: 01 February 2017
...Kirk A. Martin; Nancy Weavers Silver bond wires can be protected from damage during acid decapsulation by injecting a corrosion inhibitor into the acid stream. Recent experiments show that the injection of an iodic acid solution is effective over a wide range of process parameters, including etch...
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EDFA Technical Articles (2016) 18 (3): 54–55.
Published: 01 August 2016
... the development of advanced packaging solutions, such as fan-in wafer-level chip-scale packaging, fan-out wafer-level packaging, wire-bonded stacked dice, and package-on-package. These technologies are used in mass production and provide significant benefits in form factor but may not give the desired improvement...
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EDFA Technical Articles (2018) 20 (4): 4–12.
Published: 01 November 2018
... showing how it is used to detect stress induced voids, inspect wire bond interfaces, and examine through-silicon vias (TSVs) in the time-resolved mode. Engineers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Microstructure of Materials and Systems built and are testing a scanning acoustic microscope (SAM...
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EDFA Technical Articles (1999) 1 (4): 15–17.
Published: 01 November 1999
... examples showing how SEM/EDS measurements helped failure analysts identify human contaminants on a die sample, determine the source of a particle embedded in the film stack on a wafer, and conclude that lead spatter from a solder die-attach preform caused wire bond lift. Copyright © ASM International®...
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EDFA Technical Articles (2000) 2 (3): 20–25.
Published: 01 August 2000
...Wai Mun Yee; Mario Paniccia; Travis Eiles; Valluri Rao Laser voltage probing (LVP), an IR-based technique, facilitates through-silicon signal waveform acquisition and high frequency timing measurements from active p-n junctions on CMOS ICs. The ICs can be in flip-chip as well as wire-bond packages...
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EDFA Technical Articles (2021) 23 (4): 28–37.
Published: 01 November 2021
... in either the rendering or use of packaged trap chips are presented, including electrode shorts and opens, detached bond wires, and RF breakdown damage. Trapped ion systems are one of the leading technology platforms for quantum computing. This article describes the construction and operation of ion...
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EDFA Technical Articles (2003) 5 (1): 11–14.
Published: 01 February 2003
... etching, polishing, and milling techniques. Copyright © ASM International® 2003 2003 ASM International chip-scale packages decapsulation etching FBGA packages wire bonds httpsdoi.org/10.31399/asm.edfa.2003-1.p011 EDFAAO (2003) 1:11-14 Operations ©ASM International Chip-Scale Packages...
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EDFA Technical Articles (2013) 15 (2): 14–21.
Published: 01 May 2013
...-scale packages decapsulation etching FBGA package laser marking wire bonds httpsdoi.org/10.31399/asm.edfa.2013-2.p014 EDFAAO (2013) 2:14-21 Chip-Scale Package FA 1537-0755/$19.00 ©ASM International® Failure Analysis Challenges for Chip-Scale Packages Susan Li, Spansion, Inc. susan.li...
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EDFA Technical Articles (2018) 20 (4): 30–36.
Published: 01 November 2018
... Saturation with copper[4] Polarization of acid[5] LOW TEMPERATURE In 2011, it was demonstrated that temperature significantly changed the nondegradation of Cu bondings when this temperature was lower than ambient. When using a mix of 3:1 HNO3 H2SO4 20%SO3, the degradation of Cu wires was insignificant below...
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EDFA Technical Articles (2021) 23 (1): 4–10.
Published: 01 February 2021
... to the die. It is therefore essential that the decapsulation process does not affect the original state of the die, bond wires, and bond pads, and that consequently, original failure sites are preserved. It is the aim of this article to discuss a recently developed decapsulation method using the effluent...
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EDFA Technical Articles (2005) 7 (1): 10–14.
Published: 01 February 2005
... techniques that involve nitric or sulfuric acid to remove the molding compound above the die often introduces unwanted artifacts, such as pad corrosion and die or wire bond lifts, when done improperly. Additional problems arise from the decapsulation of GaAs radio frequency devices, which typically have...
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EDFA Technical Articles (2016) 18 (2): 48–49.
Published: 01 May 2016
... above the location of the die and The company performs this decapsulation for a places the component in a tin tray on top of a 140 °C hot number of purposes, including wire bond inspection, plate. The operator adds nitric acid in a dropwise fashion operational testing, and counterfeit investigation...
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EDFA Technical Articles (2014) 16 (4): 4–12.
Published: 01 November 2014
... massive damage merging the source metal and substrate drain. The small wire at left is a gate. Courtesy of M. Gores, Hi-Rel Laboratories 6 Electronic Device Failure Analysis Fig. 2 Cross section of a gate bond to frame. The aluminum wire is fractured away from the copper frame. Courtesy of M. Gores, Hi...
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EDFA Technical Articles (2013) 15 (4): 14–21.
Published: 01 November 2013
... in the electron microscope. One bond wire connects to p-GaN and one to n-GaN. The thin surface layer is GaN, and the rest is sapphire. (b) Cross section of lit device. (c) SEM section. The bond wire is on the p-GaN. The sapphire substrate is patterned in this device, but not in the lit device. (b) Fig. 3...
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EDFA Technical Articles (2006) 8 (4): 26–30.
Published: 01 November 2006
... access to the die and no restrictions for approaching the wire bonds. (b) Current density image obtained with the optimized GMR sensor and (c) overlaid on an optical image of the die Volume 8, No. 4 Electronic Device Failure Analysis 27 Advances in Magnetic Current Imaging (continued) sensors and 2...
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EDFA Technical Articles (2010) 12 (4): 44–46.
Published: 01 November 2010
... through metrics within each company. Examples of PIFAC Shared Learning topics from the past year include the applicaion and current limitations of acoustic microscopy, ball bond and solder bump lifting/fracturing/cratering, and a review of decapsulation techniques, including for copper wire-bond...
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EDFA Technical Articles (2009) 11 (4): 14–21.
Published: 01 November 2009
..., approaching wire bonds as close as 10 m, and scanning in cavities. Figure 5 shows the MR tip scanning in a 500 × 500 × 200 m cavity. Sensitivity of the MR sensor, on the other hand, is lower than that of the SQUID. Noise levels of approximately 6 nT Hz result in field sensitivity of approximately 0.1 T...
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EDFA Technical Articles (2014) 16 (4): 26–34.
Published: 01 November 2014
... layers arranged so the stack resistance perpendicular to the surface varies linearly with magnetization. Operating in ambient conditions, the active portion is at the end of a sharply tapered tip and scans extremely close to features such as wire bonds or probes or inside small cavities. Without the need...