International Business Machines Corporation

Gobina Das

Charles Hampton Perry

Suryanarayan G Hegde

Dale Curtis McHerron

Paul M Gaschke

Mark R LaForce

Frederick L Taber, Jr

A multiple-chip probe assembly suitable for wafer testing over a wide temperature range includes a plurality of individual buckling beam probe elements. A support structure supports the plurality of buckling beam probe elements in an arrangement in accordance with an electrical contact footprint for use in electrically contacting multiple chips of a wafer under test and enables buckling movement in a contacting direction of the plurality of buckling beams. The support structure includes a principal support material having a thermal coefficient of expansion (TCE) matched with the wafer under test and a second material other than the principal support material, wherein a contact positioning of the plurality of buckling beam probe elements upon the wafer under test during a testing operation is maintained. The second material prevents an individual probe element from electrically contacting the principal support material.

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