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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 11, 2004
Filed:
Jan. 18, 2002
Bruce Kenneth Furman, Fishkill, NY (US);
Maheswaran Surendra, Croton-On-Hudson, NY (US);
Sherif A. Goma, Hawthorne, NY (US);
Simon M. Karecki, late of Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
John Harold Magerlein, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
Kevin Shawn Petrarca, Newburgh, NY (US);
Sampath Purushothaman, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
Carlos Juan Sambucetti, Croton-On-Hudson, NY (US);
Richard Paul Volant, New Fairfield, CT (US);
George Frederick Walker, New York, NY (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A microjoint interconnect structure comprising a dense array of metallic studs of precisely controllable height tipped with a joining metallurgy. The array is produced on a device chip that is to be attached to a carrier, or to a carrier along with other devices, some of which may be selected to have similar interconnect structures so as to form all together an assembled carrier that functions as a complete computing, communications or networking system.