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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 07, 2003
Filed:
Jul. 30, 2001
Michael Dueweke, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Cypress Semiconductor Corporation, San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Energy is applied to a portion of a conducting body. In preferred embodiments, relative motion between the conducting body and the energy source is created such that the energy source moves along a thermal diffusion front, thereby enhancing the thermal diffusion front in the direction of the relative movement. The energy is preferably applied in a portion of the conducting body with higher thermal mass and the enhanced thermal diffusion front is directed toward a portion with lower thermal mass. The lower thermal mass portion expands, thereby creating fissures in surrounding material, then melts, flows through the fissures and contacts another conductor, thereby forming a conductive link.