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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 31, 2017
Filed:
Jul. 24, 2015
Tessera, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Cyprian Uzoh, San Jose, CA (US);
Vage Oganesian, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Ilyas Mohammed, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Belgacem Haba, Saratoga, CA (US);
Piyush Savalia, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Craig Mitchell, San Jose, CA (US);
Tessera, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
An electrical connection structure includes a variable-composition nickel alloy layer with a minor constituent selected from a group consisting of boron, carbon, phosphorus, and tungsten, wherein at least over a portion of a conductive substrate, the concentration of the minor constituent decreases throughout the variable-composition nickel alloy layer in a direction from the bottom surface of the variable-composition nickel alloy layer to the top surface of the variable-composition nickel alloy layer.