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Electroless nickel bumping of aluminium bondpads. Part 2 - electroless nickel plating
journal contribution
posted on 2008-10-22, 13:36 authored by David HuttDavid Hutt, Changqing Liu, Paul ConwayPaul Conway, David Whalley, Samjid H. MannanElectroless nickel has been used for many decades to
provide a hard, corrosion resistant surface finish to engineering
components. In recent years its application has been extended to
the electronics industry for the production of solderable surfaces
on printed circuit boards, which utilize a further thin gold coating
to prevent oxidation of the nickel surface. The recent interest in
the use of flip-chip technology in electronics manufacture has required
the development of low cost methods for solder bumping
of semiconductor wafers. The electroless nickel process has been
considered as a suitable candidate for the deposition of a solderable
under bump metallization (UBM) layer onto the Al bondpads.
However, the extension of existing electroless nickel plating processes
to this new application requires greater understanding of
the technique. In particular, the coating of the small isolated bondpads
on the wafer surface introduces difficulties that make the use
of many commercially available solutions impossible. This paper
reports the results of a number of experiments carried out to investigate
the electroless nickel bumping of Al bondpads and highlights
the issues that need to be considered when selecting materials and
techniques.
History
School
- Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering
Citation
HUTT, D. A. ...et al, 2002. Electroless nickel bumping of aluminium bondpads. Part 2 - electroless nickel plating. IEEE transactions on components and packaging technologies, 25 (1), pp. 98-105Publication date
2002Notes
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1521-3331Language
- en