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3D Process Integration – Wafer-to-Wafer and Chip-to-Wafer Bonding

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2011

Thorsten Matthias,
Markus Wimplinger,
Stefan Pargfrieder and
Paul Lindner
Thorsten Matthias
Affiliation:
t.matthias@evgroup.com, EV Group, Technology, 7700 S River Parkway, Tempe, AZ, 85284, United States
Markus Wimplinger
Affiliation:
m.wimplinger@evgroup.com, EV Group, DI Erich Thallner Strasse 1, St. Florian/Inn, 4782, Austria
Stefan Pargfrieder
Affiliation:
s.pargfrieder@evgroup.com, EV Group, DI Erich Thallner Strasse 1, St. Florian/Inn, 4782, Austria
Paul Lindner
Affiliation:
p.lindner@evgroup.com, EV Group, DI Erich Thallner Strasse 1, St. Florian/Inn, 4782, Austria
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Abstract

Many feasibility and design studies during the last years have shown that devices based on 3D chip stacking and integration can significantly outperform traditional planar (2D) devices. Furthermore, as packaging of the devices is a major cost factor, the possibility to integrate multiple functional entities in one package offers a huge potential for cost reduction. On research level the technical feasibility has been proven for a variety of processes. Today's focus lies on innovative manufacturing technologies and process integration schemes, which meet both, the economic and the technical demands.

Stacking of individual chips (both chip-to-wafer and wafer-to-wafer) has the inherent advantage that different functional subsystems like logic and memory can be processed on separate wafers thereby reducing the complexity and the number of process steps greatly. The individual chips can be processed on heterogeneous materials, in different fabs and by different producers.

Wafer-level integration has the advantage of higher throughput, enhanced cleanliness and the flexibility that standard fab equipment can be used for further processing. 3D integration applying chip-to-wafer bonding focuses on the yield (“good known die”) and enables to stack dies of different size e.g. several small dies on one big base die. This allows e.g. the integration of a logic device from a 300mm Si wafer with RF devices from a 150mm GaAs wafer.

In this paper a higher emphasis lies on the key enabling manufacturing technologies and supported processes.

Keywords

semiconductingbondingmicroelectro-mechanical (MEMS)

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 970: Symposium Y – Enabling Technologies for 3-D Integration , 2006, 0970-Y04-08
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2007

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