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Miguel Albert Capote

Toranaga Technologies, Inc.

Creative Electron, Inc.

Aguila Technologies Inc.

M. A. Capote

Zhiming Zhou

Xiaoqi Zhu

Michael G Todd

Ligui Zhou

Yong-Joon Lee

Hugh P Craig

Robert Vinson Burress

Nicholas John Manesis

Edward S Harrison

Catherine A Gallagher

Howard A Lenos

Matthew Wrosch

Alan Grieve

Janet Fox, Legal Representative

Prudeep Gandhi

Wesley W Walters

Hope M Viajar

A thermally conductive adhesive composition includes a powder of a high melting point metal or metal alloy, a powder of a low melting point metal or metal alloy, and a polymerizable fluxing polymer matrix composition having a polyepoxide polymer resin and a low-melting solid or liquid acid-anhydride and a polymer diluent or diluents with carbon carbon double bonds and/or functional hydroxyl groups. The ratio by weight of the low melting point powder to high melting point powder ranges from about 0.50 to about 0.80, and may range from about 0.64 to about 0.75, and may be 0.665. Heretofore unpredicted substantially higher thermal conductivity improvements in performance have been found using these ratios of low melting point powder to high melting point powder.

Thermally conductive adhesive composition and process for device attachment

A simplified process for flip-chip attachment of a chip to a substrate is provided by precoating the chip with an encapsulant underfill material having separate discrete solder columns therein to eliminate the conventional capillary flow underfill process. Such a structure permits incorporation of remeltable layers for rework, test, or repair. It also allows incorporation of electrical redistribution layers. In one aspect, the chip and pre-coated encapsulant are placed at an angle to the substrate and brought into contact with the pre-coated substrate, then the chip and pre-coated encapsulant are pivoted about the first point of contact, expelling any gas therebetween until the solder bumps on the chip are fully in contact with the substrate. There is also provided a flip-chip configuration having a complaint solder/flexible encapsulant understructure that deforms generally laterally with the substrate as the substrate undergoes expansion or contraction. With this configuration, the complaint solder/flexible encapsulant understructure absorbs the strain caused by the difference in the thermal coefficients of expansion between the chip and the substrate without bending the chip and substrate.

Semiconductor flip-chip package and method for the fabrication thereof

Forming viaholes in composition of cyanate, bismaleimide, epoxy resin and unsaturated aromatic glycidyl

A simplified process for flip-chip attachment of a chip to a substrate is provided by pre-coating the chip with an encapsulant underfill material having separate discrete solder columns therein to eliminate the conventional capillary flow underfill process. Such a structure permits incorporation of remeltable layers for rework, test, or repair. It also allows incorporation of electrical redistribution layers. In one aspect, the chip and pre-coated encapsulant are placed at an angle to the substrate and brought into contact with the pre-coated substrate, then the chip and pre-coated encapsulant are pivoted about the first point of contact, expelling any gas therebetween until the solder bumps on the chip are fully in contact with the substrate. There is also provided a flip-chip configuration having a complaint solder/flexible encapsulant understructure that deforms generally laterally with the substrate as the substrate undergoes expansion or contraction. With this configuration, the complaint solder/flexible encapsulant understructure absorbs the strain caused by the difference in the thermal coefficients of expansion between the chip and the substrate without bending the chip and substrate.

A flip-chip device and process for fabricating the device employs a multilayer encapsulant that includes a first portion encapsulant having a coefficient of thermal expansion of at most 30 ppm/&deg; C. and an elastic modulus of 2-20 GPa and a second portion comprising a polymer flux having a coefficient of thermal expansion that may exceed 30 ppm/&deg; C.

A simplified process for flip-chip attachment of a chip to a substrate is provided by pre-coating the chip with an encapsulant underfill material having separate discrete solder columns therein to eliminate the conventional capillary flow underfill process. There is also provided a flip-chip configuration having a flexible tape lamination for underfill encapsulation. With this configuration, the complaint solder/flexible encapsulant understructure absorbs the strain caused by the difference in the thermal coefficients of expansion between the chip and the substrate and provides enhanced ruggedness.

Semiconductor flip-chip assembly with pre-applied encapsulating layers

A thermally curable adhesive composition that includes a fluxing agent that also acts as an adhesive is provided. The composition includes: (a) a fluxing agent represented by the formula RCOOH, wherein R comprises a moiety having two or more carbon--carbon double bonds; (b) optionally, an effective amount of a crosslinkable diluent; (c) optionally, an effective amount of a source of free radical initiators; and (d) optionally, an effective amount of a resin to react with remnant carboxylic acid moieties. The composition can be applied directly onto the surface(s) of devices that are to be joined electrically and mechanically. These devices include, printed circuit substrates, connectors, components, cables, and other electrical devices having metallization patterns to be soldered together by means of a solder-bumped pattern on one or both surfaces. Alternatively, a solder paste, comprising solder powder mixed with the fluxing agent of the present invention can be used. During the reflow step, the fluxing agent promotes wetting of the solder to the metallization patterns and, simultaneously, the fluxing agent itself crosslinks to mechanically bond and encapsulate the surfaces and their metallizations. The compositions can also be used to formulate sinterable conductive inks.

Polmerizable fluxing agents and fluxing adhesive compositions therefrom

A thermally curable adhesive composition that includes a fluxing agent that also acts as an adhesive is provided. The composition includes: (a) a fluxing agent represented by the formula RCOOH, wherein R comprises a moiety having two or more carbon-carbon double bonds wherein in one embodiment, at least one is within an acrylate or methacrylate group, and which may further contain at least one aromatic moiety; (b) optionally, an effective amount of a crosslinkable diluent; (c) optionally, an effective amount of a source of free radical initiators; and (d) optionally, an effective amount of a resin to react with remnant carboxylic acid moieties. By employing an acrylate, methacrylate, or phenol in the structure of the adhesive flux, the cure temperature and moisture absorption characteristics can be significantly improved. The composition can be applied directly onto the surface(s) of devices that are to be joined electrically and mechanically. These devices include, printed circuit substrates, connectors, components, cables, and other electrical devices having metallization patterns to be soldered together by means of a solder-bumped pattern on one or both surfaces. Alternatively, a solder paste, comprising solder powder mixed with the fluxing agent of the present invention can be used. During the reflow step, the fluxing agent promotes wetting of the solder to the metallization patterns and, simultaneously, the fluxing agent itself crosslinks to mechanically bond and encapsulate the surfaces and their metallizations. The compositions can also be used to formulate sinterable conductive inks.

Carboxyl-containing polyunsaturated fluxing adhesive for attaching

Polymerizable fluxing agents and fluxing adhesive compositions therefrom

Electrically conductive adhesive compositions and methods for the preparation and use thereof, in which a solder powder, a chemically protected cross-linking agent with fluxing properties and a reactive monomer or polymer are the principal components. Depending upon the intended end use, the compositions comprise three or more of the following: a relatively high melting metal powder; solder powder; the active cross-linking agent which also serves as a fluxing agent; a resin; and a reactive monomer or polymer. The compositions are useful as improved conductive adhesives, such as for attaching electrical components to electrical circuits; the compositions comprising metal powder are ideally suited for creating the conductive paths on printed circuits. The compositions for forming conductive paths may first be applied to a substrate in the desired pattern of an electrical circuit, and then heated to cure it. During heating, the action of the cross-linking agent and optional reactive monomer or polymer within the mixture fluxes the metals, enabling sintering to occur between the metal powder and the solder powder.

Electrically conductive compositions and methods for the preparation and

Methods for fabricating single and multilayer printed boards which employ electronically conductive adhesive compositions are provided. The composition comprises a solder powder, a chemically protected cross-linking agent with fluxing properties and a reactive monomer or polymer as the principal components. The compositions may also comprise three or more of the following: a relatively high melting metal powder; solder powder; the active cross-linking agent which also serves as a fluxing agent; a resin; a reactive monomer or polymer; and a metal additive. Compositions comprising metal powder are ideally suited for creating the conductive paths and vias on printed circuits.

Multilayer printed circuit

Substrates for printed circuit boards and the like, in the form of a substrate base layer and at least one adherent layer fixedly attached thereto. The adherent layer preferably comprises a thermoplastic material having a glass transition temperature in the range of about 180.degree. and about 245.degree. C., or a thermosetting material capable of B-stage curing. The preparation of the novel substrates and printed circuits using the substrates and conductive traces formed with electrically-conductive ink compositions is also described.

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Miguel Albert Capote