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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 19, 2002
Filed:
Nov. 01, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Seungbae Park, Johnson City, NY (US);
Sanjeev Sathe, Johnson City, NY (US);
Aleksander Zubelewicz, Vestal, NY (US);
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 2/160 ; B23K 3/514 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 2/160 ; B23K 3/514 ;
Abstract
A method and article of fabrication is described featuring a solder layer having a serpentine, interrupted, or interdigitated boundary. The non-planar design of the boundary layer increases the fatigue life of the solder joint by limiting the damage caused by micro-cracking. This irregularity of the solder boundary constrains the propagation of cracks by creating obstacles along the crack path, redirecting the crack away from the intermetallic layer, or by increasing the path along which the crack propagates.