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Microwave cure of conductive adhesives for flip-chip & microsystems applications

Microwave cure of conductive adhesives for flip-chip & microsystems applications

Glinski, G.P. and Bailey, C. ORCID: 0000-0002-9438-3879 (2002) Microwave cure of conductive adhesives for flip-chip & microsystems applications. In: ITHERM 2002. The Eighth Intersociety Conference on Thermal and Thermomechanical Phenomena in Electronic Systems [Proceedings]. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc., Piscataway, NJ, U.S.A., pp. 848-853. ISBN 0780371526 ISSN 1089-9870 (doi:https://doi.org/10.1109/ITHERM.2002.1012543)

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Abstract

The curing of conductive adhesives and underfills can save considerable time and offer cost benefits for the microsystems and electronics packaging industry. In contrast to conventional ovens, curing by microwave energy generates heat internally within each individual component of an assembly. The rate at which heat is generated is different for each of the components and depends on the material properties as well as the oven power and frequency. This leads to a very complex and transient thermal state, which is extremely difficult to measure experimentally. Conductive adhesives need to be raised to a minimum temperature to initiate the cross-linking of the resin polymers, whilst some advanced packaging materials currently under investigation impose a maximum temperature constraint to avoid damage. Thermal imagery equipment integrated with the microwave oven can offer some information on the thermal state but such data is based on the surface temperatures. This paper describes computational models that can simulate the internal temperatures within each component of an assembly including the critical region between the chip and substrate. The results obtained demonstrate that due to the small mass of adhesive used in the joints, the temperatures reached are highly dependent on the material properties of the adjacent chip and substrate.

Item Type: Conference Proceedings
Title of Proceedings: ITHERM 2002. The Eighth Intersociety Conference on Thermal and Thermomechanical Phenomena in Electronic Systems [Proceedings]
Additional Information: [1] This paper was first presented at the Eighth Intersociety Conference on Thermal and Thermomechanical Phenomena in Electronic Systems, 2002, (ITHERM 2002), held from 30 May to 1 June 2002 in San Diego, California, USA. [2] ISBN: 0780371526 (Softbound Ed.); 0780371534 Microfiche Ed.)
Uncontrolled Keywords: Maxwell equations, adhesives, conducting polymers, filled polymers, finite difference time-domain analysis, flip-chip devices, heat conduction, microwave heating, modelling polymerisation, temperature distribution, thermal expansion, thermal management (packaging), microwave cure, conductive adhesive
Subjects: Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA76 Computer software
T Technology > TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering
Pre-2014 Departments: School of Computing & Mathematical Sciences
School of Computing & Mathematical Sciences > Centre for Numerical Modelling & Process Analysis
School of Computing & Mathematical Sciences > Centre for Numerical Modelling & Process Analysis > Computational Mechanics & Reliability Group
School of Computing & Mathematical Sciences > Department of Computer Systems Technology
School of Computing & Mathematical Sciences > Department of Mathematical Sciences
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Last Modified: 13 Mar 2019 11:31
URI: http://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/784

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