KR102022754B1 - Dicing device and dicing method - Google Patents

Abstract

Even workpieces composed of brittle materials are stably and precisely cut in a ductile mode without generating cracks or cracks. In the dicing apparatus 10 which cut | disconnects the workpiece | work W, it is comprised in the disk form by the diamond sintered compact 80 formed by sintering a diamond abrasive grain, and the said diamond sintered compact 80 ) Is a dicing blade 26 having a diamond abrasive grain content of 80% or more, a spindle 28 (rotating mechanism) for rotating the dicing blade 26, and the dicing blade 26. It is provided with a moving mechanism for moving the workpiece (W) relative to the dicing blade 26 while giving the workpiece (W) a constant cutting depth.

Description

Dicing device and dicing method {DICING DEVICE AND DICING METHOD}

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a dicing apparatus and a dicing method for performing a cutting operation such as cutting or grooves on a workpiece such as a semiconductor device or a wafer on which an electronic component is formed.

A dicing device for dividing a work, such as a semiconductor device or a wafer on which an electronic component is formed, into each chip, at least a dicing blade rotated at a high speed by a spindle and a work. ), And the X, Y, Z, and θ moving axes for changing the relative positions of the work table and the blade are provided. do.

Various proposals have been made so far as dicing blades used in such a dicing apparatus (for example, see Patent Documents 1 and 2).

Patent Literature 1 describes an electroforming blade in which diamond abrasive grains are fixed to an end face of a metal base material (aluminum flange) by an electroforming method using an electroplating technique using an alloy of a soft metal such as nickel or copper as a bonding material.

Patent Document 2 describes a diamond blade constituted by a substrate composed of a plurality of diamond layers by sequentially laminating diamond layers having different hardness by chemical vapor deposition (CVD).

However, in recent years, the demand for miniaturization and high integration of semiconductor packages is increasing, and the thinning of semiconductor chips is in progress. Accordingly, for example, ultra-thin workpieces having a thickness of 100 μm or less have been required. Since such ultra-thin workpieces are very brittle, it is necessary to make the groove width of the cutting groove formed by the dicing blade as small as possible when dicing the ultra-thin workpiece. . For example, when cutting the workpiece about 100 micrometers in thickness, it is necessary to make it thinner than the thickness of a workpiece as the blade thickness of a dicing blade, and it is necessary to set it as thickness of at least 100 micrometers or less. On the other hand, when cutting with a dicing blade having a blade thickness thicker than the thickness of the work, the work may be broken before the work is cut. For this reason, for example, when grooving about 30 μm deep to a workpiece having a thickness of about 50 μm, the width of the groove must also be 30 μm or less, so the blade thickness of the dicing blade must be kept to 30 μm or less. There is.

However, the conventional dicing blade has the technical problem shown below and cannot cut | disconnect to a very thin work stably and with high precision.

In addition, it is difficult for the brittle material to avoid cracks that cause cracking. It does not break with respect to materials having ductility, such as copper, aluminum, an organic film, resin, and the like, and it is difficult to avoid the occurrence of burrs because they have a property that burrs tend to come out.

(Problem of the crack by the protrusion adjustment impossibility)

First, as shown in FIG. 19, the electroforming blade described in Patent Document 1 has diamond abrasive grains 92 (92) interspersed in a binder 94 (metal bond), and diamond abrasive grains 92 (갖는) having sharp tips on the surface thereof. I) is in a protruding state. At this time, the protruding position and the protruding amount of the diamond abrasive grains 92 (v) are scattered so that it is difficult to precisely control the abrasive grains in principle. For this reason, the cutting depth in one processing unit cannot be controlled with high precision. In particular, when the cutting process is performed on an ultra-thin workpiece having a thickness of 100 μm or less, cracks occur at a certain predetermined cut or more, and the tip of the diamond abrasive grain may give a deadly cut to the work. As a result, cracks are attached to each other, and there is a problem in that chipping occurs.

The cause of such a problem lies in the surface shape of the electroforming blade. That is, as shown in Fig. 19, in the electroforming blade, the diamond abrasive grains 92 are bonded by the binder 94, but the surface shape is the diamond abrasive grains 92 in the binder 94. It exists in an array form. Therefore, in the electroforming blade, the reference plane 98, which is the overall average height position, exists near the surface of the bonding material 94, and the diamond abrasive grains 92 protrude from the reference plane 98. If the dicing process is advanced in this state, the surface portion of the bonding material 94 joining it is reduced instead of the diamond abrasive grains 92, so that the amount of protrusion of the diamond abrasive grains 92 becomes larger. As described above, it is difficult to precisely control the protruding position and the protruding amount of the diamond abrasive grains 92. In the case where the cut is greatly changed, cracks are generated when the cut is greater than the critical cut depth (Dc value) of the material, and the machining of the ductile mode aimed at by the present invention becomes impossible.

In particular, in the case of electroforming blades, as the term is spontaneously developed, the diamond abrasive grains 92 worn out during the cutting are dropped as they are, and then the new diamond abrasive grains 92 underneath act. It becomes However, if the dropping of the diamond abrasive grains 92 is tolerated, the dropped diamond abrasive grains 92 intervene in the middle of the blade and the workpiece, and consequently promote cracks. In machining with blades on the premise that diamonds fall off, it is impossible in principle to prevent the occurrence of cracks.

(Problem difficult to sharpen)

In addition, in the case of electro-cast blades, even though the blade tip is thinly sharpened by machining, the diamond abrasive grains are sparsely present. There is a limit to sharpening the blade tip because the blade falls out.

That is, in order to produce a thin blade, when plating the electrodeposition, the plated thinly is produced, and it is removed from the base material to form a blade, but the blade is formed by processing from behind and thinly formed. It is difficult to do.

(Problem of heat accumulation coming from poor thermal conductivity)

In addition, the electroforming blade has poor thermal conductivity, and heat is easily accumulated in the blade due to heat generation due to frictional resistance with the groove side during cutting, and there is a fear of inviting the blade to bend.

When the electroforming blade is made of nickel as the bonding material, as shown in Table 1, the thermal conductivity of nickel is about 92 W / m · K at most. Moreover, even when copper is used as a binder, only a thermal conductivity of about 398 W / m · K is obtained. If the thermal conductivity of the blade is poor in this way, the blade is easily turned over to accumulate heat, and the diamond is often graphite due to the heat generated during processing, so it is often processed by cooling with sprinkling of pure water. . On the other hand, diamond has a thermal conductivity of 2100 W / m · K, and has a thermal conductivity that is significantly different from that of nickel and copper.

    importance Coefficient of thermal expansion
[× 10 ^-6 / K] Thermal conductivity
[W / m · k]  Vickers Hardness Hv       Ni     8.9       13        92       638       Cu     8.96       16.7       398       369   Diamond     3.52        3.1      2100  8000-12000

(Problem that can't form slice blade of self back gap)

On the other hand, the diamond blade described in patent document 2 has the problem as shown below.

First, the diamond blade is a blade formed of a very dense film because it is formed by the CVD method, as a result, most of the surface of the diamond blade is planar, so as to remove the recess shape or debris to arbitrarily cut You cannot form a pocket. In addition, even when minute irregularities are formed, the size of the grain boundary cannot be arbitrarily set before the film formation. Therefore, pitch of unevenness | corrugation etc. cannot be designed arbitrarily.

(In case of lamination, the problem of bimetal effect)

Moreover, when laminating | stacking and forming the diamond layer of a different composition, thermal expansion will change easily by the composition. For this reason, if heat is generated during dicing, thermal stress is generated between the diamond layers, and the roundness and flatness of the blade may not be maintained. In this case, warpage may occur in some cases. In particular, the thinner the blade, the more noticeable the effect.

(Problem of Vibration Accuracy in Manufacture of Blade by CVD Film Formation)

In the case of producing a diamond blade by the CVD method, the blade thickness distribution of the blade is determined by the film formation distribution. In particular, when there is a wave in the film distribution, the wave cannot be removed. That is, it is difficult to form a thin blade by rolling up cracks even when trying to remove waves in machining. Therefore, it is difficult in principle to attach the reference planes to a high precision vibration-free spindle flange and to improve the vibration accuracy.

(Securing plan by joining different materials)

In addition, in order to narrow the groove width of the cutting groove by the blade, the outer peripheral portion (tip) of the blade is preferably as fine as possible, but the portion abutting the flange maintains a high precision reference plane. In order to do this, a thickness of the degree that the warpage does not occur is required. However, at the same time of manufacturing the blade as an integral body, if the blade owns another part of such thickness, it is impossible to manufacture it as an integral body and practically impossible by the film forming method. On the other hand, since joining dissimilar materials deforms in relation to thermal stress and disturbs roundness and flatness, it may be difficult to realize the processing of a ductile mode such as the present invention described later. In this case, when the workpiece is processed in a state in which a spiral or streamlined debris comes out during grinding or cutting, it is referred to as soft mode machining.

In addition, the structure in which high hardness diamond chips are embedded in the outer circumference of the blade is difficult to secure the plan view of the entire blade due to the bimetal effect because the thermal expansion and thermal conductivity of the diamond portion and the substrate portion are different. When arranged in the columnar shape, the temperature distribution is not the neat temperature distribution of the axisymmetric, so the floor plan is also deteriorated by thermal stress.

In addition, in order to make crack-free flexible mode dicing, it is necessary to limit grooves or cutting widths to extremely local areas in thin blades of 0.1 mm or less, but such thin blades can be formed in a diamond chip and a base material. There is no. It is difficult to ensure a continuous plan view of the diamond chip portion and other base material portions.

Moreover, the diamond chip part is extremely hard, but the base material part can absorb the impact of the diamond chip due to the elastic effect of the metal part of the base material. When processing in the flexible mode, it is necessary to continuously insert extremely small cuts, but if the base material absorbs such an impact, the flexible mode cannot be processed under the extremely small cuts.

From the above point of view, in view of the point of thermal conduction, the point of continuity of the planar shape or the plane, and the point of providing a locally effective shear force without absorbing the impact of machining, a blade for embedding diamond chips becomes a problem.

(In the film formation method, the stress distribution varies depending on the film deposition direction, resulting in blade warpage)

In the diamond blade described above, since a compressive stress is formed in a film made of a diamond layer formed by the CVD method, the stress enters differently as the film is deposited. Therefore, when the film is finally peeled off to form a blade, there is a difference between the sides of the compressive stress on both the left and right sides, and as a result, the blade is largely inverted. There is no means for correcting the warpage of the blade, and there is a concern that the yield of the product may be deteriorated by the stress of the film.

Moreover, in a blade, it is necessary to provide a carving blade in the outer peripheral part. Some arbitrary arbitrary irregularities are required for the carving knife, and even though the same sharp blade is formed on the outer circumference of the outer peripheral part like a sharp knife, the fine cutting of the brittle material and in some cases, the soft material, etc. In solving the problem of the present invention of advancing the process while removing the debris, it is impossible to perform a substantial cutting process without minute unevenness of the outer peripheral portion.

(Scribing problem)

In addition, although it is not a problem of the blade itself as another problem, for example, even if the blade can be manufactured with high precision, the blade can be manufactured with a sharp edge and at the same time, the ideal blade can be produced with no change in the planar state even in the heat during the cutting process. How to use is also important. In particular, in the case of scribing and the like that the blade itself is pressed in the vertical direction with respect to the workpiece and subjected to cracking, the processing is performed using brittle fracture. It cannot be processed.

In scribing, the relative speed is zero so that the workpiece and the blade do not slip. In the case of scribing, in the case of scribing, the blade needs to rotate freely in order to apply a vertical stress to the material, and the bearing or shaft portion in the blade is pressed downwardly vertically.

The blade holding portion for sliding the blade along the workpiece and the blade portion rotating in contact with the workpiece must not be completely fixed. There is no play at all with the blade, and there is no direct connection with the motor.

For this reason, in the blade configuration of the conventional scribing, the sliding portion between the shaft and the bearing portion becomes important.

Therefore, since this aspect is not scribing, a motor and a blade have a direct structure, and there is no relationship between an axis and a bearing, and they are mutually assembled in a coaxial configuration with high precision.

For this reason, the surface alignment between the blade cross section and the flange cross section of the motor direct connection becomes important. In other words, the dicing blade needs a reference plane for fitting with the flange cross section.

(Cutting while maintaining a constant depth of cut for the workpiece)

In addition, as the cutting volume changes greatly, the volume itself is removed by one piece of blade, and as a result, one piece of blade is removed and at the same time it is not possible to control a predetermined critical cut depth, and consequently during cutting. In some cases, the cutting resistance may change greatly, resulting in cracking in the workpiece material due to unbalance. In such a case, too, brittle fracture is caused, and the machining in the ductile mode cannot be realized. That is, it is necessary to secure a steady state during processing by giving a single cut to the work in order to keep a single cutting edge microscopically with respect to the work.

In addition, when a workpiece | work is not a flat sample, it may be difficult to fix a workpiece | work. For example, when cutting the cylindrical workpiece as it is, the workpiece is moved and the cut is not constant, and the workpiece may vibrate by cutting.

Next, on one side, there are also materials in which soft materials and brittle materials are mixed, such as Cu / Low-k materials (materials in which copper materials and low dielectric constant materials are mixed). In brittle materials like low-k materials, the workpiece must be machined within the deformation zone of the material so as not to cause brittle fracture. On the other hand, Cu is not broken because it is a soft material. However, these materials tend not to break and extend very much to one side. These highly ductile materials will stick to the blades and create large burrs at the blades. Moreover, in the circular blade, the burr like a beard is formed in the upper part in many cases.

In addition, in materials with high ductility, there is a problem of sticking to the blade when the material is attracted to the blade even when cut. If the blade sticks to the blade, the blades of the blade will be clogged quickly, and the blade edge of the blade will be covered with the work material, resulting in a significant reduction in the grinding ability.

The present invention has been invented in consideration of such a situation, and even in a workpiece composed of brittle material, it is stable in a ductile mode without causing cracks or cracks, so that the precision can be improved.

An object of the present invention is to provide a dicing apparatus and a dicing method capable of cutting.

Dicing apparatus which concerns on one aspect of this invention in the dicing apparatus which cut | disconnects a workpiece | work in order to achieve the said objective is made into disk shape by the diamond sintered compact formed by sintering a diamond abrasive grain. The diamond sintered compact includes a dicing blade having a content of the diamond abrasive grains of 80 vol% or more (hereinafter also referred to simply as "%"), a rotating mechanism for rotating the dicing blade, and the dicing. And a moving mechanism for moving the workpiece relative to the dicing blade while giving the workpiece a constant cut depth by the blade.

In one aspect of the present invention, the dicing blade is preferably cut in the work while rotating in the down-cut direction.

On the other hand, the down cut direction refers to a rotation direction in which the cutting blade of the dicing blade is cut into the workpiece surface when the workpiece is moved relative to the dicing blade.

Furthermore, in one aspect of the present invention, a cutting blade (micro-cutting knife) composed of a recess formed on the surface of the diamond sintered body is continuously provided along the main direction on the outer peripheral portion of the dicing blade. It is desirable to have.

Since it consists of a diamond sintered compact, it is completely different from the material by the diamond electrodeposition electrodeposited with the softer binder than the conventional diamond.

In the case of the conventional electrodeposited diamond, the diamond protrudes in order to retreat the binder compared with the diamond, and consequently, the protrusion of the diamond abrasive grains is increased with respect to the average level line. As a result, it is an abrasive grain with a large amount of protrusion, resulting in an excessive cut depth, and the crack extends beyond the critical cut depth inherent in the material.

On the other hand, in the case of the present invention, the dicing blade is mostly made of diamond so that the recessed portion surrounded by the diamond becomes a cutting blade. Therefore, the abrasive grains which protruded and protruded in the periphery do not form. As a result, it does not become excessively deep cut depth, and the recess functions as a carving blade. The reference plane of the plane is a diamond plane, and concave portions exist here and there, basically, the concave portions are processed as engraving blades.

In this way, the cutting edge formed by the presence of the sintering aid which is predominantly present in the whole and the sintering aid left in the diffusion becomes a concave cutting blade formed in the diamond abrasive grains. In addition, although the content rate of the diamond abrasive grain at this time is mentioned later, it possesses content of the diamond abrasive grain of 80% or more, and the hollow part acts as a carving blade for the first time. If the content rate decreases, the concave portion is not formed in the outer edge formed of the diamond abrasive grains, and therefore the uneven portion is mostly the same, but the convex portion becomes dominant. There is a relatively protruding part, and it does not become a cutting blade that gives a stable depth of cut that does not cause fatal cracks in the work.

Moreover, the blade which concerns on this aspect becomes a big characteristic that it is comprised by the sintered diamond. Sintered diamond is prepared by laying a diamond having a particle diameter in advance and adding a small amount of sintering aid to high temperature and pressure. The sintering aid diffuses into the diamond abrasive grains, and as a result, the diamonds are firmly connected to each other.

In electrodeposition blades or electroforming blades, diamonds do not connect each other. It is a method of fixing diamond abrasive grains by fixing the embedded diamond with the surrounding metal.

In the case of sintering, diamond particles are firmly bonded to each other by diffusion of the sintering aid into the diamond. By combining diamond particles, the characteristics of the diamond can be utilized. If the diamond content is high in diamond stiffness, hardness, heat conduction, or the like, it is possible to make use of physical properties almost close to diamond. This is due to joining diamonds together.

Compared with other manufacturing methods, such as an electroforming blade, it is produced by baking by high temperature high pressure, diamond is bonded. Such sintered diamonds correspond to, for example, a compact diamond (trademark) of GE Corporation. The compact diamond combines the microparticles which consist of single crystal with a sintering aid.

Speaking of the content of diamond, natural diamond, artificial diamond and the like naturally exist as a hard diamond with a large amount of diamond. Such a single crystal diamond is likely to break along the interface when dropped. For example, in the case where all the blades are made of single crystal diamond, even if they are formed in a disc shape, if there is an interface in any direction, there is a splitting in two at the interface. Even when diamond wears due to the progress of processing, there is a problem that wear occurs depending on the surface orientation along the interface.

In the case of single crystal diamond, it is not possible to strictly control the wear process in the material and in what unit the diamond wears in the process of the diamond wear.

On the other hand, like the DLC (Diamond Like Carbon), the members produced by vapor phase growth in CVD also become polycrystals, but the grain size cannot be precisely controlled. Therefore, even when the crystal wears out from the grain boundary, it is not possible to set how uniformly it wears, and it is not possible to strictly control the unit of grain or grain that wears off due to processing and falls off. As a result, sometimes large defects or excessive stresses in some of the defects may occur, causing major breakage.

On the other hand, in the PCD (Polycry stalline Diamond) in which diamond fine particles are fired at high temperature and pressure, they are made of polycrystalline diamond like DLC and the like, but the crystal structure is completely different. In the PCD calcined with the fine particles, the diamond fine particles themselves are single crystals, and are very crystallized perfect crystals. PCD connects single crystals by mixing a sintering aid in order to combine the single crystals. At that time, since the bonding portion is not perfectly aligned, the entirety of the bonding portion is not a single crystal but a form of bonding as a polycrystal. Therefore, the crystal orientation dependency does not exist even in the abrasion process, and it has a constant large strength in any direction.

As mentioned above, in the case of PCD, all the structures are polycrystalline because they are not perfect monocrystals, but they are polycrystals in a state where small single crystals having a large size are densely aggregated.

With such a configuration, it is possible to maintain the initial state with high precision in terms of the state of the cutting edge of the outer circumferential cutting edge and the pitch unit of the outer circumferential cutting edge in the wear process in processing. In the process of abrasion by dicing, since the single crystal and the portion connecting the single crystal are relatively weak in hardness and strength, rather than being split, the bond is broken and dropped at the grain boundary.

In PCD, the engraving blades are formed to wear along the grain boundaries between the single crystals, so that evenly spaced engraving blades are set. In this way, all the unevenness | corrugation (凹凸) becomes a carving blade. In addition, among the natural uneven cutting edges present at equal intervals, the uneven uneven cutting edge due to grain boundary of the particles also exists, and since they are all composed of diamond, they exist as a cutting edge.

In this manner, the blade according to the present invention is particularly effective in meshing with the PCD configuration and the disk shape. A cutting blade exists in the outer periphery of a disk shape, and it reaches a processing point in the form which acts on a processing point sequentially. Engraving blades are not constantly at the processing point during machining, and the cutting and cooling are repeated to contribute to the machining with only the arc of the arc while rotating, so that the tip does not overheat, resulting in diamond thermochemical It does not react with and contributes to processing stably.

Next, the formation of evenly spaced engraving blades becomes an indispensable element for soft mode dicing which is a subject of the present invention described later. That is, in the soft mode dicing, as described later, the depth of cut that one piece of blade gives to the material becomes important, and the depth of cut that one piece of blade gives to the work is necessary for the `` blade edge of the blade outer periphery ''. Is related to. Although the relationship between the critical cutting depth and the cutting edge spacing which a single blade gives to a workpiece | work is mentioned later, setting of the stable cutting edge spacing becomes essential in order to define the critical cutting depth of one cutting edge. In order to set this spacing | interval of a cutting edge precisely, PCD which sintered and combined single crystal abrasive grains with a suitable particle diameter becomes a suitable family.

On the other hand, in the "formation of equally spaced cutting blades" of the present invention, a blade in which diamond abrasive grains are arranged in a PCD material in the present invention, and diamond abrasive grains in another general case The difference of the conventional blade which arranged iii) is demonstrated.

In the electroforming blade, the content of abrasive grains is small. In Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 2010-005778, the content of diamond abrasive grains in the abrasive grain layer is about 10%. Therefore, the setting such that the abrasive grain content exceeds 70% is rare. Therefore, each abrasive grain exists sparsely. Although uniformly arrange | positioned to some extent, in order to ensure sufficient protrusion of one abrasive grain, an abrasive grain spacing is also large.

Japanese Patent No. 3308246 describes a dicing blade for cutting rare earth magnets and is formed by a composite sintered body of diamond and / or CBN. The content of diamond or CBN is 1 to 70 VOL%, more preferably 5 to 50%. If the diamond content exceeds 70%, there is no problem in terms of flipping and bending, but it is said to be weak against impact and easily to be broken.

Japanese Patent No. 4714453 also discloses a tool for cutting and grooving a composite material such as ceramics, metal and glass. In the tool which fires and produces a diamond, it is described that an abrasive grain contains 3.5-60 VOL% in a baking body. The technical problem here is that even if the bond material has a high modulus of elasticity and high hardness, it has a high holding force of abrasive grains, and if the described structure is used, it is possible to always maintain sufficient protrusion of abrasive grains. By sufficiently maintaining the protrusion of the "), it is described that the autogenous growth can be effectively maintained to enable high-speed processing.

Thus, in consideration of the conventional case, even in the electroforming blade and the blade of the diamond sintered body, the diamond is not covered by the gap between the abrasive grains. Also, there is no way of thinking that diamonds are carved into the gaps between the abrasive grains that have been laid. In the present invention, in order to process in the soft mode, the following formula will be described later, but the critical cutting depth given by one engraving blade becomes important, and the interval between the cutting blades becomes important in order to keep the cutting depth below a certain level. In addition, the cutting blades also do not make abrasive grains that protrude largely and protrude. Instead, diamond carvings are used to form the cutting blades at equal intervals using the recessed portions.

22A and 22B schematically show the shape of the abrasive grain gap according to the diamond abrasive grain content. In order to form a cutting blade that does not give excessive cuts at regular abrasive intervals, it is necessary to closely cover the diamond, and then some abrasive grains are continuously removed and swept away. In order to do this, at least 70% or more of the diamond abrasive grain content is required. Then some diamonds must be removed. When sintered with a content of diamond abrasive grains of 80% or more, a state in which diamonds can be laid at least spatially as shown in FIG. 22A can be formed, and it is swept away while removing the abrasive grains itself. Naturally, it is possible to form blades with evenly spaced blades. Moreover, all the unevenness | corrugation which could be done so acts as a carving blade.

In view of the above, in order to form evenly spaced cutting blades, it is necessary to construct a material that is fired by high temperature and high pressure after being abrasively dense with high density.

On the other hand, when the content rate of diamond abrasive grains is 70% or less like FIG. 22B, it becomes difficult to arbitrarily form the cutting blade of equal intervals. This is due to the presence of the abrasive grains isolated in the sparsely part of the diamond abrasive grains where the rich content of the diamond abrasive grains and the other portions are rarely formed at the content of 70% or less. This is because the interval between may increase. When the spacing of the cutting blades is large, or when there are sparse parts, for example, when only one diamond abrasive grain protrudes greatly, the exact amount of protrusion cannot be set, giving a depth of cut that causes fatal cracks to the work.

In the above-mentioned Japanese Patent No. 4714453, in order to solve the problem of high-speed processing under sufficient protrusion of the abrasive grains, the content of the diamond abrasive grains is preferably 70% or less. However, in this invention, it is a subject to crack-free dicing in a flexible mode. Therefore, in order to act as a concave blade between the abrasive grains and maintain the gap between the blades at a constant interval, the diamond content is preferably at least 70% or more, ideally 80% or more. Do.

In addition, the blade in this case does not only cut with a sharp blade like a cutter. In other words, the tip is made with a sharp blade and not cut on the same principle as tongs. It is necessary to remove the workpiece and insert the groove while cutting. It is necessary to cut it continuously in the material with the next blade while discharging the debris cut out continuously. Therefore, only the tip is not good sharp, it requires a fine piece of blade.

In the case of such a dense diamond-blocked configuration, not only the grain boundary portion, but also the peripheral portion of the outer edge portion is formed by a constant roughness, the constant blade spacing is formed. Although such a cutting edge spacing shows the case with a specific space | interval later, a diamond particle diameter and a cutting blade spacing may become a totally different size.

In the case of having a cutting edge spacing different from the diamond particle diameter, the way of thinking of the cutting blade is different from that of a conventional electroforming blade. That is, in the conventional blade, since the diamond is embedded in the binder material, each diamond exists independently, so that the size of the cutting blade is the same as the diamond particle diameter. In other words, one diamond forms one piece blade. In such a configuration, the self-developed unit is one diamond, that is, it corresponds to one piece of blade. The unit of engraving blades and the self-proclaimed blade unit does not change. For example, if you need a relation to the work to some extent, it is necessary to enlarge the carving blade that requires a groove, but the share of the spontaneous cause is that the abrasive grains are eliminated. The self-promoting unit also grows, and its share life becomes extremely short.

As described above, in the conventional electroforming blade or the like, the size of the abrasive grain and the size of the engraving blade become the same as constraints for maintaining the state of the blade.

In contrast, in the case of the blade using the sintered diamond of the present invention, small diamonds are bonded to each other. The blade edge larger than diamond grains is formed in the blade outer peripheral part of the sintered diamond comprised by combining diamonds. The particle diameter of the diamond, which is one abrasive grain constituting the sintered body, is very small (about 1 micron) as compared with the unit of the cutting blade.

In the case of using the blade according to the present invention, one diamond falls out depending on the processing, but the entire carving blade does not fall out. In addition, when falling off, the abrasive grains constituting the one-piece blade like the electroforming blades are not omitted, and some diamonds are dropped and fall in the portion where the diamonds are bonded to each other.

As a result, in the case of the present invention in the process of self-imprinting, the diamond is peeled off by abrasion in a region smaller than the size of the engraving blade, and the size of the engraving blade itself does not change significantly. Dicing proceeds as a very small part is peeled off in one piece of blade. As a result, the size of the cutting blade itself does not change, while the whole cutting blade wears out and the knife does not deteriorate. While small and partially indigenous, the maximum groove depth of one engraving blade remains within a certain range. As a result, ductile mode processing can be continued and it becomes possible to attain a stable degree of knife.

In other words, in the case of a dresser which is electrodeposited with a conventional binder, for example nickel, and hardens the abrasive grains, when one abrasive grain is dropped, the dropped portion becomes a hole. Because of this, the carving knife disappears and the workability corresponding to that part is lost. Therefore, in order to maintain workability, the binder must be designed to wear out quickly so that the next abrasive grains protrude so that it is easy to protrude the next piece of blade.

On the other hand, in the structure of this invention, the part in which a diamond was missing is a small recess, and the recess is also existed as a micro engraving blade which exists in a large engraving blade as an area | region enclosed by another diamond abrasive grain. We construct micro roughness to become an opportunity to dig into work. In other words, the way in which the diamond is missing becomes the next piece of blade as it is, is completely different from the conventional structure.

The way of thinking, spacing, and critical cutting depth produced by one cutting blade is a setting condition for dicing, which is to set the cutting blade of a certain blade on the blade necessary for the outer cutting of the cutting blade, and the work suited to the setting of the cutting blade. Need to send at feedrate for. Therefore, the device to operate the blade by sending a certain cut according to the surface shape is a premise. In the case where the workpiece is a flat surface, it is necessary to set a constant cutting mark parallel to the workpiece surface to be machined and send the blade relatively.

Next, by rotating the disk-shaped blade, the engraving blades at the respective outer peripheral ends (edge portions) are subjected to the removal processing of the workpiece at the machining point, whereby the blades are cut into the air as it is, and the blade is naturally cooled. In particular, since the part in contact with the work is only a part of the blade, most of the blades are cut into the air and cooled.

In the case of cutting and the like, the cutting blade is constantly in contact with the workpiece, and the cutting blade portion is heated by friction, and even though it is diamond, it is thermochemically worn out. By sharpening the blade of the blade and cutting the workpiece, the diamond wear due to the thermal effect can be largely avoided.

Moreover, in 1 aspect of this invention, it is preferable that the said diamond sintered compact sintered the said diamond abrasive grains using the sintering aid of a soft metal.

The blade becomes conductive by sintering the soft metal. If the blade is not conductive, it is difficult to accurately estimate the outer diameter of the blade outer circumferential end, and it is difficult to accurately estimate the blade tip position with respect to the work in consideration of the installation error caused by mounting on the spindle.

Therefore, the blade uses a conductive blade and is installed so that the conductive blade and the chuck plate holding the planar substrate as a reference are connected to each other so that the conductive blade is brought into contact with the chuck plate. And the relative height of the chuck.

Moreover, in one aspect of this invention, it is preferable that the said recessed part is comprised by the recessed part formed by wearing or dressing-processing the said diamond sintered compact.

Moreover, in 1 aspect of this invention, it is preferable that the average particle diameter of the said diamond abrasive grain is 25 micrometers or less.

Here, Japanese Patent No. 3308246 described above describes a rare-earth magnet cutting diamond blade, but the diamond content is 1 to 70 vol%, and the average particle diameter of diamond is preferably 1 to 100 m. In addition, in Example 1, the average particle diameter of diamond is 150 micrometers. This aims to improve the abrasion resistance of the center metal due to less bending and bending.

Similarly, in the blade of Japanese Patent No. 3892204, the particle diameter of diamond is effective at an average particle diameter of 10 to 100 µm, but more preferably at an average particle diameter of 40 to 100 µm.

JP 2003-326466 A is a blade for dicing ceramics, glass, resins, and metals, but the average particle diameter is preferably 0.1 μm to 300 μm.

As described above, in the conventional blade, a relatively large diamond particle diameter is said to be suitable.

In this invention, it is preferable that the average particle diameter of a diamond abrasive grain is 25 micrometers or less with diamond content.

When it is 25 micrometers or more, the area ratio which diamonds contact | connects is especially reduced and a part of the share is connected by sintering, but most parts become a space because there is no sintering aid.

Even if the thickness direction of the blade is at least, if there is no width in which two to three particles exist in the thickness direction, it is not possible to form a firm blade itself in which the abrasive grains are bonded to each other. When comprised with 25 micrometers or more microparticles | fine-particles, 50 micrometers or more are required even if the thickness direction is minimum. However, in blades thicker than 50 μm in thickness direction, the maximum depth of cuts produced by one blade is greater than 0.1 μm in Dc value, for example, in SiC. Therefore, there is a possibility that the soft mode processing will not be made minutely, so that the ideal soft mode processing becomes difficult, and in principle, the probability of causing brittle fracture is greatly increased. This will be explained in detail later.

Therefore, the particle diameter of the diamond is preferably 25 μm or less. However, although the minimum particle diameter is tried about the fine diamond up to about 0.3-0.5 micrometer of development, it is unclear about the ultrafine diamond below that.

Moreover, in one aspect of this invention, it is preferable that the outer peripheral part of the said dicing blade is comprised thinner than the inner part of the said outer peripheral part, and it is more preferable that the thickness of the outer peripheral part of the dicing blade is 50 micrometers or less.

Here, the outer circumferential portion of the dicing blade refers to the width of the portion that enters into the workpiece. In the case of soft dicing, the part that enters the work may divide the work if the blade width is larger than the work thickness. This will be described later.

In addition, in one aspect of the present invention, the rotating mechanism is provided with a flange surface made of a metal perpendicular to a rotation axis for rotating the dicing blade, and the dicing blade has a reference plane on one side thereof. It is preferable that the reference plane is fixed to the rotating shaft while abutting the flange surface. In this aspect, it is more preferable that the reference plane portion of the dicing blade is configured in an annular shape around the rotation axis.

The dicing apparatus which concerns on another aspect of this invention is comprised in the disk shape by the diamond sintered compact formed by sintering a diamond abrasive grain in the dicing apparatus which cut | disconnects a workpiece | work, The said diamond sintered compact Is a dicing blade having a content of the diamond abrasive grains of 80 vol% or more, a rotating mechanism for rotating the dicing blade, and the dicing blade to give a constant cutting depth to the work, and to the dicing blade. It is provided with a moving mechanism for moving the work relative to the dicing blade while giving fine particles.

The dicing method which concerns on another aspect of this invention is comprised in the disk shape by the diamond sintered compact formed by sintering a diamond abrasive grain in the dicing method which cut | disconnects a workpiece | work, The said diamond sintered compact Is a process of giving a constant cutting depth to the work while rotating a dicing blade having a content of the diamond abrasive grains of 80 vol% or more, and the workpiece being given a constant cutting depth to the work by the dicing blade. Moving relative to the dicing blade.

In still another aspect of the present invention, it is preferable that the dicing blade is cut in the work while rotating in the down cut direction.

Moreover, in another aspect of this invention, it is preferable that the recessed part (micro-cutting knife) formed in the surface of the said diamond sintered compact is provided continuously in the circumferential direction in the outer peripheral part of the said dicing blade.

Moreover, in another aspect of this invention, it is preferable that the said diamond sintered compact sintered the said diamond abrasive grains using the sintering aid of a soft metal.

Moreover, in another aspect of this invention, it is preferable that the average particle diameter of the said diamond abrasive grain is 25 micrometers or less.

Moreover, in another aspect of this invention, it is preferable that the outer peripheral part of the said dicing blade is comprised thinner than the inner part of the said outer peripheral part, and it is more preferable that the thickness of the outer peripheral part of the dicing blade is 50 micrometers or less.

In still another aspect of the present invention, a flange surface made of a metal perpendicular to a rotation axis for rotating the dicing blade is provided so that the dicing blade has a reference plane portion on one side thereof, and the reference plane portion is provided. It is preferable to be fixed to the rotating shaft in a state in contact with the flange (flange) surface. In this aspect, it is more preferable that the reference plane portion of the dicing blade is configured in an annular shape around the rotation axis.

According to this invention, the diamond sintered compact which content of a diamond abrasive grain is 80% or more is comprised integrally in disk shape. Therefore, compared with the conventional electroforming blade, it becomes possible to control the cutting depth of the dicing blade with respect to a workpiece with high precision. Thereby, excessive cutting is not given, and the workpiece can be moved relative to the dicing blade while giving the workpiece a constant cutting depth. As a result, it is possible to make a cut even when the cut depth of the dicing blade is set below the critical cut depth of the workpiece even for a workpiece made of brittle material, and it is stable in a ductile mode without generating cracks or cracks. Cutting can be performed with high precision.

1 is a perspective view showing the appearance of a dicing apparatus;
2 is a front view of a dicing blade,
3 is a side cross-sectional view showing an AA section of FIG.
4A is an enlarged cross-sectional view illustrating an example of a configuration of a cutting knife;
4B is an enlarged cross-sectional view showing another example of the configuration of a cutting portion;
4C is an enlarged cross-sectional view showing another example of the configuration of a cutting knife;
5 is a schematic diagram schematically showing a shape near the surface of a diamond sintered body;
Fig. 6 is a view showing the shape of the workpiece surface when the groove is processed by a blade having an average particle diameter of diamond abrasive grains of 50 μm, showing a case where cracks are generated;
7 is a cross-sectional view showing a dicing blade installed on the spindle,
8A is a diagram showing the result of Comparative Experiment 1 (silicon groove machining) (this embodiment),
8B is a view showing the results of Comparative Experiment 1 (silicon groove machining) (prior art),
9A is a diagram showing the result of Comparative Experiment 2 (sapphire groove working) (this embodiment),
9B is a view showing the result of Comparative Experiment 2 (sapphire groove processing) (prior art),
10A is a view showing the results of Comparative Experiment 3 (in case of blade thickness of 20 μm),
10B is a view showing the results of Comparative Experiment 3 (in case of blade thickness of 50 μm),
10C is a view showing the results of Comparative Experiment 3 (in case of blade thickness of 70 μm),
11A is a view showing the result of comparative experiment 4 (work surface),
11B is a view showing the results of comparative experiment 4 (work cross section),
12A is a view showing the results of comparative experiment 5 (work surface),
12B is a view showing the results of comparative experiment 5 (work cross section),
13A is a view showing the result of comparative experiment 6 (this embodiment),
13B is a view showing a result of comparative experiment 6 (prior art),
14 is an explanatory diagram schematically showing a shape when dicing is performed using a blade having a double tapered type cutting portion;
15 is a view showing the appearance of burrs or chipping,
16 is an explanatory diagram in the case of geometrically calculating the maximum cut depth when the blade is moved in parallel for processing;
17A is a view showing the result of measuring the outer circumferential end of a blade with a roughness gauge;
17B is a view showing the result of measuring the outer circumferential end of the blade with a roughness gauge;
18A is a view showing the surface state of the outer circumferential end of the blade (blade tip side surface);
18B is a view showing the surface state of the outer circumferential end of the blade (blade tip),
Fig. 19 is a schematic diagram in which the blade tip shows a cut shape with respect to the work material;
20A is an explanatory diagram used for explaining the thickness of a blade;
20B is an explanatory diagram used for explaining the thickness of the blade (when the thickness of the blade is larger than the thickness of the workpiece),
20C is an explanatory diagram used for explaining the thickness of the blade (when the thickness of the blade is smaller than the thickness of the workpiece),
21 is a schematic view showing the shape of the surface of the electroforming blade,
22A is a schematic diagram showing the shape of the abrasive grain gap according to the diamond abrasive grain content (when the abrasive grain content is 80% or more),
22B is a schematic diagram showing the shape of the abrasive grain gap according to the diamond abrasive grain content (when the abrasive grain content is 70% or less),
Fig. 23 is a sectional view of a blade outer circumferential end (50 μm holes at 100 μm intervals) when a cutting blade is formed by a fiber laser;
24 is a front view of the fine particle supply mechanism,
25 is a side view of the fine particle supply mechanism.

EMBODIMENT OF THE INVENTION Hereinafter, preferred embodiment of the dicing apparatus and dicing method which concern on this invention is described according to an accompanying drawing.

1 is a perspective view showing the appearance of a dicing apparatus. As shown in FIG. 1, the dicing apparatus 10 has a load port 12 and an adsorption portion 14 which exchange a cassette containing a plurality of workpieces W with an external device, and has a workpiece W. FIG. ) And a spinner for washing and drying the conveying means 16 for conveying the surface of the work, the imaging means 18 for imaging the surface of the workpiece W, the processing portion 20, and the workpiece W after processing. And a controller 24 for controlling the operation of each part of the apparatus.

The machining section 20 is provided with two oppositely arranged air bearing spindles 28 of a high frequency motor-embedded type in which blades 26 are installed at the front end thereof. Index sending in the Y direction and cutting marks in the Z direction are performed. Moreover, the work table 30 which adsorbs and mounts the workpiece | work W is comprised so that rotation is possible about the axis center of a Z direction, and it grinds in the X direction of drawing by the movement of the X table 32. As shown in FIG. It is configured to be transported.

The work table 30 is equipped with the porous chuck (porous body) which vacuum-suctions the workpiece | work W using negative pressure. The workpiece W placed on the workpiece table 30 is held and fixed in a vacuum suction state to a porous chuck (not shown). Thereby, the workpiece | work W which is a flat plate sample is uniformly adsorb | sucked on the whole surface in the plane-calibrated state to the porous chuck. For this reason, even if shear stress acts on the workpiece | work W at the time of dicing, a position difference does not arise in the workpiece | work W.

The workpiece retention method of vacuum adsorption of the entire workpiece leads to the blade constantly giving a constant cut depth to the workpiece.

For example, in the case where the workpiece is a sample that is not corrected on a flat plate, it is difficult to define a reference surface of the workpiece surface, which makes it difficult to set the blade depth of the blade to what extent from the reference surface. If it is not possible to set the blade depth of a constant blade for the work, it is difficult to set the critical depth of the cut, where one piece of blade constantly produces a stable cut, so that a stable soft mode dicing is difficult.

If the workpiece is calibrated on a flat surface, the reference surface of the workpiece surface can be defined and the blade cut depth from the reference surface can be set, so that the critical cut depth can be set per one cutting edge, allowing stable ductile mode dicing. .

On the other hand, even if it is not vacuum adsorption, it may be a type which adhere | attaches whole surface on a hard board | substrate. Stable flexible mode dicing becomes possible if the surface can be defined even with a thin substrate on the basis of the surface firmly adhered to the entire surface.

2 is a front view of a dicing blade. 3 is a side cross-sectional view illustrating the A-A cross section of FIG. 2.

As shown in Fig. 2 and Fig. 3, the dicing blade 26 (hereinafter, simply referred to as "blade") of the present embodiment is a ring-shaped blade, and the spindle 28 of the dicing apparatus 10 is located at the center thereof. The mounting hole 38 for attaching to the protrusion is provided.

On the other hand, the blade 26 is composed of sintered diamond and has a disk shape or a ring shape. If the blade 26 has a concentric configuration, the temperature distribution becomes axially symmetric. If the temperature distribution is symmetric with the same material, the shear stress according to the Poisson's ratio does not work in the radial direction. Therefore, since the outer peripheral end maintains an ideal circular shape and the outer peripheral end maintains the same plane, it acts in a straight line on the work by rotation.

The blade 26 is integrally formed in a disk shape by a diamond sintered compact (PCD) formed by sintering diamond abrasive grains. The diamond sintered body has a diamond abrasive grain content (diamond content) of 80% or more, and the diamond abrasive grains are bonded to each other by a sintering aid (for example, cobalt).

The outer peripheral part of the blade 26 is a part which cut out with respect to the workpiece | work W, and is provided with the cutting part 40 formed in the blade shape thinner than the inner part. In this cutting portion 40, a fine cutting blade (micro-cutting knife) formed of a fine concave formed on the surface of the diamond sintered body has a small pitch (e.g., in accordance with the main direction of the blade outer peripheral end portion 26a (edge portion)). 10 μm) continuously.

In this embodiment, the thickness (blade thickness) of the cutting part 40 is comprised at least thinner than the thickness of the workpiece | work W. As shown in FIG. For example, when performing a cutting process with respect to the workpiece | work W of 100 micrometers, the thickness of the cutting part 40 is 50 micrometers or less, More preferably, it is 30 micrometers or less, More preferably, it consists of 10 micrometers or less.

As a cross-sectional shape of the cutting part 40, it may be formed in the taper shape which becomes thin gradually toward the outer side (tip side), and may be formed in the straight shape which has uniform thickness.

4A to 4C are enlarged cross-sectional views showing an example of the configuration of the cutting portion 40. 4A to 4C correspond to an enlarged portion B of FIG. 3.

The cutting part 40A shown in FIG. 4A is a one-side taper type (one piece V type) in which only one side part was obliquely processed in taper shape. The cutting portion 40A has, for example, a taper angle θ ₁ of a portion where the thickness T ₁ of the outermost end portion, which is the thinnest, is 10 μm, and one side portion is tapered. It is 20 degrees. On the other hand, the inner portion of the blade 26 (except for the contact region 36 described later) has a thickness of 1 mm (also in FIGS. 4B and 4C).

The cutting part 40B shown in FIG. 4B is a both-side taper type (both V-type) in which the side part of both sides was processed obliquely in taper shape. For example, the cutting portion 40B has a thickness T ₂ of the outermost end portion, which is the thinnest, is 10 μm, and the tapered corner angle θ ₂ of the side portion at which both side surfaces are tapered is formed. It is 15 degrees.

The cutting portion 40C shown in Fig. 4C is a straight type (parallel type) in which side surfaces on both sides are processed in parallel in a straight line. This section kalbu (40C), for example, the thickness (T ₃₎ of the machined front end onto the straight thin is to 50μm. On the other hand, as for the inner side part (center side part) of a straight tip part, one side part part is processed to taper shape, and the taper angle (theta) ₃ is 20 degrees.

5 is a schematic diagram schematically showing a shape near the surface of a diamond sintered body. As shown in FIG. 5, the diamond sintered body 80 is in a state where the diamond abrasive grains 82 (diamond particles) are bonded to each other with high density by the sintering aid 86. On the surface of this diamond sintered body 80, the cutting blade 84 (micro-cutting knife) which consists of a micro concave (concave part) is formed. This recess is formed by mechanically processing the diamond sintered body 80 to selectively wear the sintering aid 86 such as cobalt. Since the diamond sintered body 80 has a high abrasive density, the recesses formed at the place where the sintering aid 86 is worn become minute pockets, and the sharp protrusions of the diamond abrasive grains, such as electroforming blades, None (see FIG. 21). For this reason, the concave formed on the surface of the diamond sintered compact 80 functions as a pocket which conveys the debris which arises when cutting the workpiece | work W, and also functions as the carving blade 84 which gives a cutting mark to the workpiece | work W. do. Thereby, it becomes possible to control the cutting depth of the blade 26 with respect to the workpiece | work W with high debris discharge | emission property.

Here, the blade 26 of this embodiment is demonstrated in more detail.

As shown in FIG. 5, the blade 26 of this embodiment is comprised integrally by the diamond sintered compact 80 formed by sintering the diamond abrasive grains 82 (b) using the sintering aid 86. As shown in FIG. For this reason, although the sintering aid 86 exists very little in the clearance gap of the diamond sintered compact 80, the sintering aid also spreads in the diamond abrasive grain itself, and in fact, it becomes the form which diamonds bond firmly. The sintering aid 86 is made of cobalt, nickel or the like and is low in hardness compared to diamond. Therefore, even if the diamonds are bonded to each other, the portion rich in the sintering aid is slightly weaker than the single crystal diamond. . This part wears and decreases when processing the workpiece | work W, and becomes moderate recessed with respect to the surface (reference plane) of the diamond sintered compact 80. FIG. In addition, by abrasion-processing the diamond sintered compact 80, the recess in which the sintering aid was removed is formed in the surface of the diamond sintered compact 80. FIG. In addition, some diamonds other than the sintering aid are eliminated by cutting the cemented carbide for GC (green carborundum) blade or, in some cases, by cutting the cemented carbide which is a hard brittle material. An appropriate roughness is formed in the outer peripheral portion of the. By making the outer peripheral part rougher than the diameter of the diamond grains, fine diamond abrasive grains fall within one piece of the blade, making it difficult to wear the blade.

The recesses formed on the surface of the diamond sintered body 80 advantageously work in the machining in the flexible mode. That is, as mentioned above, this recess functions as a pocket for discharging the debris which arises when cutting the workpiece | work W, and also functions as the carving blade 84 which gives a cut to the workpiece | work W. As shown in FIG. For this reason, the amount of the cut to the workpiece | work W is automatically limited to a predetermined range, and it does not give a deadly cut.

Moreover, according to the blade 26 of this embodiment, since it is comprised integrally with the diamond sintered compact 80, it is possible to arbitrarily adjust also the number, pitch, and the width | variety of the concave formed in the surface of the diamond sintered compact 80. do.

That is, in the diamond sintered body 80 constituting the blade 26 of the present embodiment, the diamond abrasive grains 82 are bonded to each other using the sintering aid 86. For this reason, there exists a sintering aid 86 between the diamond abrasive grains 82 (砥 粒) couple | bonded with each other, and a grain boundary exists. In order to make this grain boundary part correspond to concave, the concave pitch and number are decided by itself by setting the particle diameter (average particle diameter) of the diamond abrasive grains 82 (砥 粒). In addition, by using the sintering aid 86 made of soft metal, selective concave processing can be performed, and the sintering aid 86 can be selectively worn. In addition, the roughness can be adjusted by setting the wear treatment and the dressing treatment while rotating the blade 26. That is, the pitch, width, and depth of the engraving blade 84 in which the concave formed on the surface of the diamond sintered body 80 is formed by the grain boundary pitch formed according to the particle diameter selection of the diamond abrasive grains 82 (;). , The number can be adjusted. The pitch, width, depth and number of these engraving blades 84 play an important role in the machining of the flexible mode.

Thus, according to this embodiment, the particle size selection of the diamond abrasive grains 82 (a), the controllability parameters, such as abrasion process and a dressing process, are adjusted suitably, according to the grain boundary of a crystal | crystallization with high precision. The spacing of the engraving blades 84 can be achieved. In addition, on the outer circumferential portion of the blade 26, it becomes possible to line up a straight line along the main direction in the engraving blade 84 made of concave formed on the surface of the diamond sintered body (80).

Here, as a comparison, there is a wheel used for scribing as a similar thing with respect to a wheel sintered diamond abrasive grains, but the difference is mentioned to avoid confusion with the scribing wheel.

Wheels used for scribing are shown in, for example, Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 2012-030992. The document discloses a wheel which is formed of sintered diamond and has an annular blade having a knife tip at its outer circumference. Although scribing and dicing of the present invention are both likely to be in the same class in the art of dividing the material, the specific construction is completely different depending on the processing principle.

First, as a critical difference between the document and the present invention, the scribing of the document and the device for placing a scribing line (vertical crack) on the surface of the substrate formed of brittle material as described in the paragraph [0020] And vertical cracks growing in the vertical direction by scribing occur (see paragraph [0022] above). Cut it using this crack.

In contrast, the present invention is completely different in principle as a processing method for shearing material without causing cracking or chipping. Specifically, since the blade itself rotates at a high speed and mostly works in the horizontal direction with respect to the workpiece surface to remove the workpiece, no stress is applied in the vertical direction of the workpiece. In addition, the cutting depth is only within the deformation region of the material, and in order to be processed to the cutting depth where cracks do not occur, as a result, a surface without cracks can be obtained after processing. From the above, the processing principle is completely different.

In light of the differences in the above processing principles, specific differences in the specifications of the blades are listed below.

ㆍ (point of the knife tip vertex)

Since scribing only generates cracks inside the material, it is mostly not forced into the material. In order to act only on the ridge line (稜線) of the knife tip, the knife tip angle is usually an obtuse angle (see paragraph above). In addition, the angle of 20 ° or less cannot be considered in consideration of deficiencies due to torsion.

On the other hand, in dicing, the edge of the blade is straight or the edge of the blade is V-shaped enough to consider the buckling caused by the dicing resistance in the blade advancing direction. . At maximum, the vertex angle is less than 20 °.

In addition, when the vertex angle is 20 degrees or more, the cross section after cutting becomes oblique and the cross sectional area is increased, and the volume of grinding on the side of the blade is increased more than the element which cuts the blade tip and advances also in the mechanism of processing. As a result, the efficiency of machining decreases, and sometimes machining does not proceed. In the case of dicing, a blade is formed on the outer periphery of the blade, and the blade side is required to be mirror-finished while reducing the amount of polishing by improving the lubricity with the work while efficiently cutting the blade with the cutting blade of the tip. When the amount of polishing on the side of the blade increases, the amount of grinding on the side inevitably increases, and the cross section after the cutting cannot be mirrored. Therefore, in dicing, the straight shape is most preferable, but it is preferable that the V shape is extremely small so that the blade does not buckle at the minimum, and the angle of the tip is at most 20 °.

ㆍ (point of material composition)

In scribing, if the direction of travel changes in a state where the wheel is brought into contact with the workpiece (ingested state), the tip of the knife may be missing due to the stress of the twist. Therefore, even if the wheel is a sintered compact of the same diamond, the weight% of diamond is 65% to 75%. As a result, not only wear resistance and impact resistance but also torsional strength characteristics are improved. When the weight% of diamond is 75% or more, the hardness of the wheel itself increases, but the torsional strength of the diamond decreases. Therefore, relatively small diamond content is set.

On the other hand, dicing proceeds linearly while the blade rotates at a high speed to remove a certain amount of material. Therefore, the stress of twisting is not applied. Instead, when the diamond content is small, the apparent hardness decreases when a cut is made, so the reaction force from the work or the work recovers elastically within the time when the engraving blade of the blade is capped, so that the predetermined cut depth cannot be maintained. There is. Therefore, in the case of dicing, compared with the hardness of a workpiece, the hardness of a blade is large enough so that it may cut and advance to a predetermined cutting mark without protruding. Surface hardness equivalent to single crystal diamond (about 10000 knoop hardness) is required to proceed the machining without allowing elastic recovery within the working time of engraving blades in the deformation region of the material in the ductile mode. In addition, about 8000 is necessary for the knoop hardness. As a result, 80% or more of diamond content is required. However, when the diamond content is 98% or more, the ratio of the sintering aid is extremely reduced, so that the bonding strength between the diamonds is weakened, the toughness of the blade bar is lowered, and it is easy to retreat and lack. Therefore, the diamond content is required to be 80% or more, and to be practical, it is preferable to be 98% or less.

From the above, the PCD used for the scribing wheel and the PCD used for the dicing blade of the present invention have different processing principles even if they are the same as the material, so the required composition of the PCD, specifically the diamond content, is completely different. .

ㆍ (point of wheel structure and reference plane)

* The wheel structure is different. The scribing wheel is equipped with a holder, which is an element that freely holds the scribing wheel. The holder mainly owns the pin and the support frame, so that the part of the pin (part of the shaft) does not rotate. The inner diameter of the wheel becomes a bearing and rotates by rubbing relative to the portion of the pin that is the shaft, thereby forming a scribing line in the vertical direction (broken vertically) on the material surface.

On the other hand, the blade which concerns on this invention is provided in the same axis with the rotating spindle. The spindle and the blade rotate at high speed integrally. The blade needs to be installed perpendicularly to the spindle axis, so that it is necessary to avoid vibration due to rotation.

Therefore, the reference plane exists in the blade. The reference plane present on the blade is fixed by contacting the reference plane of a flange that is previously installed perpendicular to the spindle. This ensures perpendicularity to the spindle axis of rotation of the blade. This perpendicularity is ensured, and the blade is formed in the outer peripheral portion for the first time the blade rotates to act in a straight line with respect to the work.

In addition, the reference surface at the time of scribing is prescribed | regulated on the assumption that the blade is pressed vertically in the cylindrical surface parallel to the axis of a disk blade. However, as mentioned earlier, the reference plane of the blade in the blade according to the present invention is the side end surface (a disc surface) of the blade opposite the flange of the spindle. By making the reference surface of the blade the side of the blade (the disk surface), the blade rotates with high precision in a balanced state with respect to the blade center. Therefore, even when the blade is rotated at a high speed, the engraving blade formed at the tip of the blade can be precisely operated at a predetermined height position defined at a predetermined radial position with respect to the blade center, and a stress perpendicular to the workpiece having a predetermined height is also applied. The carving knife acts horizontally with respect to the workpiece surface and removes it without giving. For this reason, even if the work is a brittle material, cracking is not caused by normal stress with respect to the work surface at all.

ㆍ (Point of Kakokuri)

Whether or not cracking is applied in this vertical direction or otherwise processing without generating any cracks is a critically different principle between scribing and dicing according to the present invention.

ㆍ (The role of the outer knife groove)

In addition, the scribing is pressed by the vertical stress of the scriber as much as the surface to install the scribing line. The role of the circumferential blade in the case of scribing is to generate a crack perpendicular to the material while the knife tip protrusion of the wheel abuts (eats into) the brittle material substrate (see paragraph [0114] above). That is, it is a groove | channel where a scribing line can be provided in such a way that a part other than a groove | channel eats into a material, and has a vertical crack. Therefore, it is more important to know how the acid portion between the groove and the groove is eaten into the material than the groove.

On the other hand, in the case of dicing, the recessed part provided in the outer periphery end performs the role of a carving blade. The portion between the recess and the recess forms an outline of the outer circumference and is set so as to have a critical cut depth such that the cutting blades provided therebetween do not crack the workpiece surface. Therefore, in the case of dicing, it is necessary to form a carving blade.

In addition, in the case of scribing, the depth of the groove forms the depth of the groove to give an encroachment amount to form the scribing line, but in the case of dicing, the workpiece must be forced into the workpiece to grind and remove the workpiece with one piece of blade. do. Therefore, the blade tip is forced into the work completely, and vibration of the blade is not allowed, and the cutting blade must be operated perpendicularly to the work surface to the depth of the material.

In the case of the blade which concerns on this invention, it has the cutting blade of a recess of constant space | interval at the outer peripheral edge part. The cutting edge spacing should be as long as the critical cutting depth given by one cutting blade does not crack. For that, it is necessary to keep the cutting edge spacing properly.

In addition, the scribing wheel changes the direction of the knife tip of the scribing wheel by 90 ° while the scribing wheel is in contact with the brittle material, which is called a caster effect.

In dicing blades, the blade is forced into the material, so the direction of the blade tip cannot be changed by 90 °. For example, if the tip is changed while a straight shape or a vertex angle abuts on a dicing blade of 20 degrees or less, the blade is bent.

On the other hand, in the case of the diamond sintered body 80 sintered using the sintering aid 86 made of soft metal, abrasion treatment, dressing treatment, or the like is most suitable as a method of forming a concave on the surface, but is not limited thereto. For example, when a sintering aid such as cobalt or nickel can be used, it is also possible to form a concave on the surface of the diamond sintered body 80 by chemically dissolving by acid-based etching.

On the other hand, in the conventional electroforming blade, the diamond abrasive grain itself plays the role of a carving blade, but in order to adjust the pitch, the width, etc. of the blade, the dispersion degree in which the diamond abrasive grains are initially dispersed. It is technically difficult because it has no choice but to rely on it. That is, it contains a lot of ambiguity, such as dispersion of diamond abrasive grains, and cannot control it substantially. It is also difficult to arbitrarily adjust even if there are insufficiently dispersed diamond abrasive grains and aggregated portions or excessively dispersed and sparse portions. As such, in the conventional electroforming blade, it is impossible to control the arrangement of the cutting blades.

In addition, in the conventional electroforming blade, artificially arranging the diamond abrasive grains of micron order one by one is not in the state of the art, and it is almost impossible to arrange the cutting blades in a straight line. Do. In addition, in the conventional electroforming blades in which the dense and coarse portions of the cutting blades are mixed to substantially control the arrangement of the cutting blades, it is difficult to control the amount of cutting for the workpiece W. It cannot be processed.

In the blade 26 of this embodiment, it is preferable that the average particle diameter of the diamond abrasive grains contained in a diamond sintered compact is 25 micrometers or less (more preferably 10 micrometers or less, still more preferably 5 micrometers or less).

According to the experimental results performed by the present inventors, in the case where the average particle diameter of the diamond abrasive grains was 50 µm, cracks occurred when the wafer material was diced with a cut amount of 0.1 mm in SiC. Perhaps the cause of the dropout is diamonds. When sintered to a diamond average particle diameter of 50 µm or more, the area where the diamond particles adhere to each other becomes small, thereby joining large particles in a local area. Therefore, it has the drawback that it is easy to become weak in impact resistance very much from the compositional point of a material. When a diamond falls out in a unit of 50 μm or more due to a local impact, a very large blade is formed by the dropout. In that case, it is possible to give a cut depth more than a predetermined critical cut depth as an isolated cutting blade, and as a result, chipping or cracking is likely to be extremely high. In addition, when a diamond of about 50 µm is dropped, not only does the blade of the remaining portion get larger, but also the dropped diamond abrasive grains may be entangled between the work and the blade to further crack. If the particles are 25 μm or smaller, such cracks cannot be normally produced.

FIG. 6: shows the shape of the workpiece | work surface at the time of grooving with the blade of the average particle diameter of 50 micrometers of a diamond abrasive grain, and shows the case where a crack has generate | occur | produced.

In addition, as a result of evaluating the incidence of cracking or chipping in the case of grooving with a blade having an average particle diameter of diamond abrasive grains of 50 μm, 25 μm, 10 μm, 5 μm, 1 μm and 0.5 μm, respectively Is shown in Table 2. The evaluation results indicate that the incidence of cracks or chipping increases in the order of A, B, C, and D. Other conditions are as follows.

ㆍ Standard evaluation condition: SiC substrate (4H) [Hexagonal crystal]

ㆍ Spindle rotation speed: 20000rpm

ㆍ feed speed: 1mm / s

ㆍ cut depth: 100μm

Evaluation guideline: Evaluates whether there is chipping above 10μm (ideally no chipping).

Diamond
Average particle diameter 50 25 10 5 One 0.5 Crack or
Occurrence of chipping D
Chipping comes out
easy. C
Sometimes but
Almost none B A A B

Moreover, in sapphire, the crack generate | occur | produced in the 0.2 micrometer. Cracks occurred in the same cut in quartz and silicon.

In addition, when the average particle diameter of diamond abrasive grains is 50 micrometers, it is difficult to make the blade thickness (blade outer peripheral end thickness) of a blade into 50 micrometers or less, and when making the blade 26, There are many blade defects. Moreover, even when trying to produce blades with a blade thickness of 100 μm (0.1 mm), there are parts with large gaps, and they may be broken by a slight impact, making it difficult to manufacture the blades in a stable manner.

On the other hand, when the average particle diameter of diamond abrasive grains is 25 micrometers, 5 micrometers, 1 micrometer, and 0.5 micrometer, it is cracked even if each brittle material of SiC, sapphire, quartz, and silicon performs the same cut as the case where an average particle diameter is 50 micrometers. Did not occur. That is, in these brittle materials, when the average particle diameter of diamond abrasive grains is 50 micrometers, a crack generate | occur | produces in the cut of a server micron order, and when diamond abrasive grains of more average particle diameters are used. Inevitably, the knife will grow larger, causing a fatal crack. On the other hand, when diamond abrasive grains having an average particle diameter of 25 μm or less (more preferably 10 μm or less, and more preferably 5 μm or less) are used, the cutting can be suppressed small, and the control of the high precision cutting depth It becomes possible.

On the other hand, the general processing conditions of this experiment are a blade outer diameter of 50.8 mm, a wafer size of 2 inches, a cut 10 μm groove, a spindle rotational speed of 20,000 rpm, and a table feed speed of 5 mm / s.

As a manufacturing method of the blade 26 comprised in this way, a fine diamond powder is placed on the base made from tungsten carbide as a main component, and it puts into a mold. Next, a solvent metal (sintering aid) such as cobalt is added to the mold as a sintering aid. Next, it is calcined and sintered under a high pressure of 5 GPa or more and a high temperature atmosphere of 1300 ° C or more. As a result, diamond abrasive grains are directly bonded to each other to form an ingot of a very hard diamond. In this way, for example, a circumferential ingot having a diameter of 60 mm and a sintered diamond layer (diamond sintered body) of 0.5 mm and a tungsten carbide layer of 3 mm can be obtained. As a diamond sintered compact formed on tungsten carbide, DA200 by Sumitomo Electric Co., Ltd. hard metal company, etc. are mentioned. The blade 26 of the present embodiment can be obtained by removing only the diamond sintered body and subjecting the blade base material to outer wear or dressing treatment in a predetermined shape. In addition, the diamond surface of the circumferential ingot (except for the cutout portion 40) is a surface roughness (arithmetic mean) by performing a scaif polishing (a polishing disc) as a reference surface for removing vibration during rotation. Roughness Ra) It is preferable to process into the mirror surface of about 0.1 micrometer.

Here, the abrasion treatment and the dressing treatment in the above production method can be performed under the following conditions.

The wear treatment includes the following conditions.

ㆍ Blade Rotation Speed: 10000rpm

ㆍ Feeding Speed: 5mm / s

ㆍ Work processing target: Quartz glass (glass material)

ㆍ Processing time: 30 minutes

• By the above treatment, a small amount of cobalt sintering aid of about 1 to 2 µm was removed to form a concave, and a very thin etching solution (weak acid system) was thinly applied to dry environment without supplying pure water. The concave was further deepened by treatment at.

The following conditions may be sufficient as a dressing process (abrasion process).

ㆍ Blade Rotation Speed: 10000rpm

ㆍ Feeding Speed: 5mm / s

ㆍ Work processing target: GC600 dressing grindstone (70mm □)

               [GC600 means the 600th (# 600) particle size of silicon carbide grinding material. Particle size is based on Japan Industrial Standards (JIS) R6001]

ㆍ Processing time: 15 minutes

This process also slightly removed the cobalt sintering aid to form a recess.

On the other hand, it is preferable to change the roughness of the blade outer peripheral end portion and the blade side portion of the blade outer peripheral portion. Specifically, the blade outer peripheral end portion corresponds to the engraving blade, and the blade edge interval is adjusted according to the grain boundaries by the abrasion treatment. In particular, the blade outer periphery is slightly roughened by inserting a cut into the work material to a certain extent and removing it.

On the other hand, the blade side portion is not aggressively removed and may be rough enough to shave the groove side portion at the time of contact with the groove side portion of the workpiece material. In addition, if there is a projection on the blade side surface portion, the groove side surface portion will be cracked, so it is necessary to process without forming a projection portion, while reducing the contact area with the groove side surface portion to reduce the generation of heat due to friction at all. Therefore, it is preferable that the side part is made into fine roughness.

In conventional electroforming blades or the like, in order to harden the abrasive grains by plating, the entire surface has the same abrasive grain distribution. As a result, the edges of the blade outer edge and the abrasive grains on the side of the blade are formed. The form could not be divided largely. That is, the roughness situation could not be changed clearly as the blade outer peripheral end for cutting and advancing a workpiece | work, and the side part which cuts finely while rubbing with a workpiece | work.

In the case of the blade according to the present invention, most of them are made of diamond and can be formed and processed from the state. For example, in the case of the blade according to the present invention, diamond lapping or the like may be used to crush the side surface portion. By subtracting the surface with a fine diamond (particle diameter of 1 μm to 150 μm), for example, Ra can form a roughness of about 0.1 μm to 20 μm.

On the other hand, since the blade outer peripheral part is different from the blade side part, and it is necessary to advance a sheath while processing a workpiece, it is better to stick roughly as a carving blade unlike a side part. Such roughness can be formed in the outer circumferential portion by, for example, a pulse laser or the like.

When forming a engraving blade with a pulse laser, the conditions shown below are preferably used.

Laser Oscillator: IPG, USA

Fiber Laser: YLR-150-1500-QCW

Feed table: JK702

Wavelength: 1060nm

Output: 250W

Pulse Width: 0.2msec

Focus position: 0.1mm

Blade Rotation: 2.8rpm

Gas: High Purity Nitrogen Gas 0.1L / min

Hole diameter: 50μm

Blade material: DA150 (diamond particle diameter of 5μm) made by Sumitomo Electric

Outer Diameter: 50.8mm

With such a pulsed fiber laser, as shown in Fig. 23, a semicircular sharp cutting edge can be formed continuously at regular intervals of 0.05 mm in diameter on a blade outer peripheral end at a pitch of 0.1 mm. have. In the formation of such a cutting blade, the diamond particle diameter is 5 µm in size, but one cutting blade itself can be a 50 µm cutting blade. In addition, if they are formed at equal intervals, the apparent speed is reduced to enable high speed dicing to enable dicing in the flexible mode (for example, when the spindle speed is 10000 rpm or more).

In fiber lasers, the size of a single cutting blade can range from 5 μm in size to 1 mm in large ones, but it is usually possible to empty the cutting edge from 5 μm to 200 μm in the laser beam diameter. It is possible.

It does not form the end loss with the material which hardened the diamond by plating, such as an electroforming method, but consists of the material of the sintered diamond and continuously forms the minute cutting defect in the outer peripheral part which made the disk, and cuts one by one The defect acts as a carving blade.

Japanese Laid-Open Patent Publication No. 2005-129741 discloses a method for forming a cutting defect in the outer peripheral part of a blade manufactured by an electroforming method, but the cutting defect in this case is a cutting function as a function of preventing the cutting of chips and clogging. The defect is installed and not installed as a carving blade. When produced by the electroforming method, diamond is not necessarily present at the edge portion of the cutting defect, but is present together with the binder, and thus the binder does not act as a cutting blade as a material by wear with processing.

In contrast, when the blade is composed of a diamond sintered body, the tip of the carving blade left in the outer peripheral portion acts as a carving blade as it is. Moreover, since the diamond abrasive grain diameter is small as 5 micrometers compared with the size of 50 micrometers of a cutting blade, one diamond abrasive grain of one cutting blade breaks and falls, and it becomes possible to grow small in a engraving blade. The grindstone in the conventional electroforming method has the same size as the engraving blade and the autogenous unit because the diamond abrasive grains act as the cutting blade as it is, but in the present invention, the carving blade is formed by forming an arbitrary engraving blade. You can change the size of the blade and the unit in which the diamond grows, and as a result, you can secure the knife for a long time.

In addition, by increasing the roughness of the outer peripheral end of the blade with respect to the roughness of the side surface of the blade, the blade side can be mirror-finished while grinding the workpiece to a fine rough surface while cutting forward from the blade outer peripheral end. In the blade by the conventional electroforming method, it is difficult to independently change the roughness of the outer circumferential end and the roughness of the side part, and although it is not practical, by using sintered diamond as in the present invention, it is possible to arbitrarily form equally spaced cutting blades on the outer circumferential end. The blade side can be finely broken surface. As a result, it is possible to ensure the degree of cutting of the outer periphery, and to efficiently cut and advance the mirror surface finishing process independently from the work side.

On the other hand, a configuration in which high hardness diamond chips are filled one by one only on the outer periphery of blades (for example, JP-A-7-276137, etc.) may be formed at equal intervals. Because it is not formed of a disk-shaped PCD, a locally effective shear force is applied to the workpiece without absorbing the points of heat conduction, the shape of the planar or continuity of the plane, and the impact of machining. It is obvious that the blade is completely different from the blade according to the present invention in terms of giving, in addition, processing in a ductile mode.

The spacing of the cutting edges and the roughness of the surface of the side portion are appropriately adjusted according to the material to be processed.

7 is a cross-sectional view showing a state in which the blade 26 is installed on the spindle 28. As shown in Fig. 7, the spindle 28 is axially rotatable with the spindle main body 44 incorporating a motor (high frequency motor) (not shown) and the spindle main body 44 so that its tip is the spindle main body. It consists mainly of the spindle axis | shaft 46 arrange | positioned and installed in the state which protruded from 44. As shown in FIG.

The hub flange 48 is a member that is opened between the spindle shaft 46 and the blade 26, and is provided with a mounting hole 48a formed in a tapered shape, and at the same time, a cylindrical projection. 48b is provided. The hub flange 48 is provided with a flange face 48c serving as a reference plane for determining the perpendicularity of the blade 26 with respect to the spindle axis 46 (rotation axis). The blade reference surface 36a of the blade 26 abuts on this flange surface 48c as described later.

The blade 26 is provided with an annular portion 36 (abutment area) formed in a thick portion at an inner side of the blade 26 at a cross section on one side (see FIGS. 2 and 3). The annular portion 36 is provided with a blade reference surface 36a to which the flange surface 48c of the hub flange 48 abuts. It is preferable that the blade reference surface 36a is provided at a position higher than other positions in the cross section in which the annular portion 36 is formed, whereby the planar surface is easy to come out. Moreover, the thickness of the annular part 36 which comprises the blade reference surface 36a needs to be made thick enough compared with the cutting part 40 provided in the blade outer peripheral part.

In order to prevent brittle fracture on the surface of the material at the time of cutting, the blade outer peripheral portion needs to be finely cut, and the thickness must be 50 μm or less.

However, when the blade reference surface portion is included as it is and the thickness of the blade outer periphery is all produced to a thickness of 50 μm or less, the processing distortion when processing in the process of flattening the blade becomes a big problem. In particular, when the entire surface of the blade is manufactured to a thickness of about 50 μm, the blade is turned over on one side with a crushed balance between the sides of the blade. If the blade is slightly upside down, the outer circumferential end is so thin that the blade buckles to the original inverted side with very small stress, and as a result, it cannot be used.

For this reason, the portion forming the blade reference surface should not be thick enough to cause warpage even if the processing distortion remains on the surface of the blade. The thickness of the reference surface portion of the blade at a degree such that the warpage does not occur due to the warping of a disk about 50 mm in diameter is preferably 0.25 mm or more, preferably 0.5 mm or more. Without this thickness of the blade reference plane portion, the plane cannot be maintained as the blade reference plane. If the plane cannot be maintained, it is difficult to make the blade outer peripheral end work in a straight line on the work.

From the above, it is necessary for the blade 26 of the present embodiment to satisfy the following conditions.

That is, since the blade reference surface 36a must remain flat even if the balance of the processing dents on both sides of the blade 26 is broken, the thickness of the reference plane portion at least 0.3 mm is required.

On the other hand, the blade outer circumferential end must be processed into an extremely small area in order not to cause cracks in the material. For that purpose, the thickness of the cutting part 40 provided in the blade outer peripheral part needs to be 50 micrometers or less.

In other words, for example, the whole blade having a diameter of 50 mm needs to be manufactured integrally because of the flatness retention, and the blade inner peripheral portion must be thickened due to the flatness retention, while the blade outer peripheral portion must be thinned.

On the other hand, as a method of producing a plan view, mirror processing by sky polishing or the like can be used.

As the mounting method of the blade 26, first, the spindle shaft 46 formed in a tapered shape is fitted to the mounting hole 48a (iii) of the hub flange 48, and the hub flange 48 is fixed by a not shown. positionally fix the flange to the spindle axis 46. Then, the blade nut 52 is twisted to the thread formed at the tip of the protrusion 48b in a state where the mounting holes 38 of the blade 26 are fitted to the protrusion 48b of the hub flange 48. By positioning, the blade 26 is fixed to the hub flange 48 by positioning.

As such, when the blade 26 is installed on the spindle axis 46 through the hub flange 48, the perpendicularity of the blade 26 to the spindle axis 46 is determined by the width of the hub flange 48. The plan view of the flange face 48c, the plan view of the blade reference plane 36a of the blade 26, and both of them are determined by the mounting accuracy. For this reason, the flange surface 48c of the hub flange 48 (the surface perpendicular to the rotation axis) and the blade reference surface 36a of the blade 26 in contact with the flange surface 48c are mirror-processed, for example. It is preferable that it is planarized and formed so that the perpendicularity to the spindle axis | shaft 46 may be high precision. Thereby, when mounting the blade 26 to the spindle shaft 46 via the hub flange 48, the blade 26 is spindled by positioning and fixing the flange surface 48c in contact with the blade reference surface 36a. It can be made perpendicular to the axis 46 with high precision.

In addition, since the precision of the center position of the blade 26 is determined by the precision which fits with the mounting hole 38 (b) of the blade 26 and the protrusion 48b of the hub flange 48, the mounting hole 38 By increasing the processing accuracy of the inner circumferential surface and the outer circumferential surface of the projection 48b, these coaxial degrees can be ensured, and good installation accuracy can be realized.

As a result, high precision cutting processing is realized by securing the installation accuracy of the highly accurate spindle shaft 28 in addition to the blade single precision.

That is, in order to process in a ductile mode, not only the thickness of the cut part 40 of the blade 26 is comprised thinly, but the cut part 40 is formed on the rotating shaft 28 of the blade 26. High precision installation is required so that it can act almost linearly in a direction perpendicular to the spindle axis), but the required precision can be sufficiently satisfied.

In the present embodiment, the hub flange 48 and the spindle shaft 46 supporting the shaft 26 are made of stainless steel (for example, SUS304 and SUS304 are stainless steel based on Japan Indus trial Standards (JIS), Hereinafter, the stainless steel in this embodiment is based on Japanese Industrial Standards. In addition, the blade 26 is integrally comprised by the diamond sintered compact 80 as mentioned above. In other words, the blade reference plane 36a is configured to be maintained as a metal reference plane. According to such a structure, even if the cutting part 40 of a blade outer peripheral part has heat | fever by the cutting process, or even if heat generate | occur | produced on the spindle shaft 46 side, heat is uniformly transmitted inside the blade 26 first. That is, the blade 26 is composed of a diamond sintered body 80 having a very high thermal conductivity, whereas the hub flange 48 and the spindle shaft 46 supporting the blades 26 are particularly compared with the diamond sintered body 80. It is composed of stainless steel with low thermal conductivity. For this reason, the heat generated in these is transmitted in the circumferential direction along the blade 26, and is uniformed immediately in the circumferential direction of the blade 26 to form a radial temperature distribution. As only the diamond portion is immediately transferred heat, the stainless spindle shaft 46 and the hub flange 48 are less likely to be transferred heat in terms of cross-sectional area, so that the contact portion is less. As a result, the diamond portion promotes heat uniformity. Thermal equilibrium is ensured.

Moreover, since there is no member which inhibits thermal expansion in a blade outer peripheral part, and there is no bimetal effect, the outer peripheral part of the blade 26 can maintain roundness and flatness favorably. As a result, the engraving blade 84 provided in the blade outer peripheral end acts in a straight line with respect to the workpiece | work W. As shown in FIG.

In the present embodiment, the blade 26 is mounted on the spindle shaft 46 via the hub flange 48. However, the blade 26 may be mounted directly on the spindle shaft 46. , The same effect can be obtained.

Next, the dicing method using the blade 26 of this embodiment is demonstrated. This dicing method is a method that can cut and stably cut brittle materials such as silicon, sapphire, SiC (silicon carbide), glass, etc. without causing brittle fracture such as cracking or chipping, and plastic deformation. to be.

First, the workpiece | work W is taken out from the cassette mounted on the load port 12, and is mounted on the work table 30 by the conveying means 16. FIG. The work W mounted on the work table 30 is not shown in the position of the line 26 and the position of the blade 26 on which the surface is imaged by the imaging means 18 and diced on the work W. The work table 30 is adjusted and aligned with each of the moving axes of X, Y, and θ. When the alignment is completed and dicing is started, the spindle 28 starts to rotate, and the spindle 28 moves downward in the Z direction by a predetermined height by the amount that the blade 26 cuts or grooves the workpiece W. The blade 26 rotates at high speed. In this state, the workpiece W is machined in the X direction as shown in FIG. 1 by the moving shaft (not shown) together with the work table 30 with respect to the blade position, and the blade is attached to the spindle tip which was lowered to a predetermined height. Dicing is performed at 26.

At this time, the cutting depth (cutting amount) with respect to the workpiece | work W of the blade 26 is set. One piece blade 84 by rotating the blade 26 having a plurality of pieces blade on the outer periphery at high speed; The fine cutting knife must be set to be equal to or less than the critical cutting depth (Dc value). This critical cut depth is the maximum cut depth that can be cut in a ductile mode by plastic deformation without causing brittle fracture of the brittle material.

Here, Table 3 shows the relationship between the workpiece material and the critical cut depth of one cut without causing cracking.

        Work material           Critical cut depth Dc value [µm]           SiC                    0.26 Si ₃ N ₄                    1.98 Al ₂ O ₃                    1.03 ZrO ₂                    6.22           Si                    0.15

As can be seen from Table 3, for example, when the work material is silicon, the critical cut depth is 0.15 μm, and the cut depth to the work W of the blade 26 is set to 0.15 μm or less. If the depth of cut exceeds 0.15 μm, cracks in the workpiece material cannot be avoided.

In addition, in the workpiece material shown in Table 3, it turns out that the critical cut depth (0.15 micrometer) of silicon is the smallest and it is easy to be broken compared with other materials. As a result, in most materials, if the depth of cut is 0.15 μm or less, in principle, a ductile mode processing that allows the processing to proceed in the deformation range of the material without generating cracks becomes possible.

Moreover, the circumferential speed (blade circumferential speed) with respect to the workpiece | work W of the blade 26 is set sufficiently large compared with the relative feedrate (process feedrate) with respect to the workpiece | work W of the blade 26. do. For example, when the rotation speed of the blade 26 is 20,000 rpm and the outer diameter of the blade 26 is 50.8 mm, the relative feed speed of the blade 26 is 10 mm / s with respect to the rotation speed 53.17 m / s of the blade 26. Is set to.

On the other hand, control of the cutting depth, the rotational speed of the blade 26, and the relative feed speed of the blade 26 with respect to the workpiece | work W is performed by the controller 24 shown in FIG.

Dicing processing in such a soft mode is repeatedly performed in a state where the cut depth per cut is set below the critical cut depth until the groove depth of the cutting line becomes the final cut depth.

Then, when the dicing processing along one cutting line for the workpiece W is finished, the blade 26 is indexed and positioned to the next cutting line to be processed next, and the cutting is performed according to the processing sequence as described above. Dicing along the line is performed.

And when all the dicing processes according to the predetermined number of cutting lines are complete | finished by repeating the said dicing process, the said cutting W is rotated by 90 degrees with the work table 30, and the above-mentioned cutting process is carried out by the above-mentioned processing procedure. Dicing along the cutting line of the direction orthogonal to a line is performed.

In this way, when all the dicing processes according to all the cutting lines are completed, the workpiece | work W is cut-divided into many chips.

Here, in order to verify the effect of this invention, the result which grooved the workpiece | work using the blade 26 of this embodiment and the conventional electroforming blade in the said dicing method is demonstrated.

Comparative Experiment 1 (Silicone Wafer)

* As the blade 26 of this embodiment, the thing of both taper types (both V type) was used. On the other hand, as a conventional electroforming blade, a blade thickness of 50 μm (particle size # 600) was used. Other conditions are as follows.

ㆍ Device: Blade Dicing Device AD20T [manufactured by Tokyo Precision Co., Ltd.]

Blade rotation speed: 20000rpm

ㆍ work feedrate (processing feedrate): 10mm / s

ㆍ cut depth: 30μm

Work: Silicon wafer (780 μm thick)

The result of the comparative experiment 1 is shown to FIG. 8A and 8B. 8A and 8B show the shape of the workpiece surface after grooving.

As shown in FIG. 8A, in the case of using the blade 26 of the present embodiment, a cutting groove could be formed without causing cracks in the work.

On the other hand, as shown in FIG. 8B, when the conventional electroforming blade was used, minute cracks occurred on the workpiece surface. In addition, cracks were generated on the bottom of the cutting groove.

Thus, when using the blade 26 of this embodiment, compared with the case of using the conventional electroforming blade, it confirmed that it could be stabilized in ductility mode and the cutting process with high precision was possible, without generating a crack.

Comparative Experiment 2 (Sapphire Wafer)

Next, using the same blade as Comparative Experiment 1, a comparison experiment was conducted under the following conditions.

ㆍ Device: Blade Dicing Device AD20T [manufactured by Tokyo Precision Co., Ltd.]

Blade rotation speed: 20000rpm

ㆍ work feedrate (processing feedrate): 10mm / s

ㆍ cut depth: 50μm

Work: Sapphire wafer (thickness 200 μm)

The result of the comparative experiment 2 is shown to FIG. 9A and 9B. 9A and 9B show the shape of the workpiece surface after grooving. FIG. 9A shows the case where the blade 26 of the present embodiment is used, and FIG. 9B shows the case of the conventional electroforming blade.

As is clear from Figs. 9A and 9B, it was confirmed that even when the workpiece was changed to a sapphire wafer, the same results as in Comparative Experiment 1 for the silicon wafer can be obtained.

Comparative Experiment 3 (SiC Wafer)

Next, comparative experiments were conducted under the following conditions using a straight blade. Blade thickness was 20 micrometers, 50 micrometers, and 70 micrometer thickness.

ㆍ Device: Blade Dicing Device AD20T [manufactured by Tokyo Precision Co., Ltd.]

Blade rotation speed: 20000rpm

ㆍ work feedrate (processing feedrate): 2mm / s

ㆍ cut depth: 200μm

Work: 4H-SiC wafer Si surface (thickness 330μm)

10A to 10C show the shape of the workpiece surface after grooving by the blade 26 of the present embodiment, and FIG. 10A shows the blade when the blade thickness is 20 μm and FIG. 10BB shows the blade thickness is 50 μm. The case where thickness was 70 micrometers was shown.

Ideally, the blade thickness should be 50 μm or less, but in the case of SiC there is a small crack at the 70 μm blade thickness, but no significant crack.

[Comparative Experiment 4] (Carbide Alloy)

Next, comparative experiments were carried out under the following conditions using the straight blades as described above.

The blade thickness was 20 micrometers thick.

ㆍ Device: blade dicing device AD20T (manufactured by Tokyo Precision, AD20T is the model number of the device)

Blade rotation speed: 10000rpm

ㆍ work feedrate (processing feedrate): 1mm / s

ㆍ cut depth: 40μm

Work: Carbide WC (WC: Tungsten Carbide)

11A and 11B have shown the workpiece | work surface (FIG. 11A) and cross section (FIG. 11B) after the grooving by the blade 26 of this embodiment. As shown in the figure, it is shown that even a hard material such as cemented carbide WC can perform an ideal ductile mode processing.

[Comparative Experiment 5] (Polycarbonate)

Next, in the same manner as before, a comparative experiment was conducted using the straight blade under the following conditions. Blade thickness was 50 micrometers thick.

ㆍ Device: Blade Dicing Device AD20T [manufactured by Tokyo Precision Co., Ltd.]

Blade rotation speed: 20000rpm

ㆍ work feedrate (processing feedrate): 1mm / s

ㆍ cut depth: 500μm (full cut)

Work: Polycarbonate

12A and 12B have shown the workpiece surface and workpiece cross section after the grooving by the blade 26 of this embodiment, respectively. As shown in Fig. 12A, a sharp cutting line is observed when viewed from the work surface. As shown in Fig. 12B, it was clear that a mirror cut surface was obtained even in comparison with a conventional electroforming blade.

[Comparative Experiment 6] (CFRP: carbon-fiber-reinforced plastic)

Next, in the same manner as before, a comparative experiment was conducted using the straight blade under the following conditions. Blade thickness was 50 micrometers thick.

ㆍ Device: Blade Dicing Device AD20T [manufactured by Tokyo Precision Co., Ltd.]

Blade rotation speed: 20000rpm

ㆍ work feedrate (processing feedrate): 1mm / s

ㆍ cut depth: 500μm (full cut)

Work: CFRP

The result of the comparative experiment 6 is shown to FIG. 13A and 13B. 13A and 13B show the shape of the cross section of the workpiece after grooving. FIG. 13A shows the case where the blade 26 of the present embodiment is used, and FIG. 13B shows the case of the conventional electroforming blade.

Compared with the conventional electroforming blade, the electroforming blade can not observe the beautiful cross section of the fiber because it roughly tears out the fibers one by one, but in the blade according to the present invention, the sharp fibers without entangled one by one A cut surface having a cross section can be obtained.

As a result, in the blade according to the present invention, a continuous engraving blade is formed, each concave portion becomes a engraving blade, and diamonds are bonded to each other. Therefore, in the electroforming blade, the cutting blade absorbs the impact with a soft binder even when cutting one fiber, so that the cutting blade does not work sharply, but the blade according to the present invention is instantaneous impact due to the shear stress of the diamond. This is because the blade tip works sharply without absorbing.

Next, the reason why the practical dicing process is possible even if the cutting process in ductile mode processing is performed by making the cutting depth with respect to the workpiece | work W of the blade 26 below the critical cutting depth (Dc value) is demonstrated. do.

For example, the case where the workpiece | work W which consists of a silicon wafer is cut | disconnected using the blade 26 of 50 mm of outer diameter is considered. On the other hand, at the blade outer peripheral end, a cutting blade (uncut blade) along grain boundaries is provided along the main direction at a pitch of about 10 µm. In this case, since the outer peripheral length of the blade is 157 mm (157000 µm), about 15700 engraving blades are formed in the outer peripheral portion.

First, let a piece of cutting cut out 0.15 micrometer as a mark which does not give a crack to the workpiece | work W, and it is set as the removal amount of 0.02 micrometer (20 nm) by the cutting. On the other hand, the critical cut depth where cracks, such as SiC, Si, sapphire, and SiO ₂ , do not occur is usually a server micro-order (for example, about 0.15 μm). Then, since there are 15700 engraving blades at the outer peripheral edge of the blade, it is possible to proceed with processing of about 0.314 mm (314 μm) in principle per blade rotation. If it is set as 10,000 rpm as a dicing spindle, it will rotate 166 per second. Therefore, the cutting removal elimination distance at the blade outer peripheral end per second becomes 52.124 mm. For example, when the feed speed of the blade is set to 20 mm / s, the speed at which the workpiece is processed and removed in the shear direction is faster than the speed at which the workpiece is pressed. That is, to cut the work material, a small cut is made to the extent that the work material is not destroyed, and the work material is machined in a horizontal direction perpendicular to the travel direction of the blade and sprinkled, and the blade proceeds to the removed portion. Form. Therefore, since there is no room for the cut of 0.1 micrometer or more of the grade which a crack generate | occur | produces, it becomes possible to cut in the ductile mode processing area based on plastic deformation, without causing brittle fracture. That is, while the blade is rotated at a high speed, the circumferential speed of the blade outer periphery (tip) of the blade by the blade rotation is set to be larger than the feed speed of the blade to the material to be processed. It becomes possible to do

On the other hand, in consideration of some eccentricity of the blade, it is carried out with a slight margin, and when the blade diameter of φ 50.8 mm is processed at a feed rate of about 10 mm / s while rotating at 20,000 rpm, no material crack occurs. .

Next, the results of various examinations will be described in order to realize processing in the flexible mode using the blade 26 of the present embodiment.

[About the cross-sectional shape of the cutting part of a blade]

In this embodiment, the cross-sectional shape of the cut-out part 40 provided in the outer peripheral part of the blade | wing 26 is a double tape type (both V-type) shown in FIG. 4B among the cross-sectional shapes shown in FIGS. 4A-4C. Can be preferably used.

FIG. 14: is explanatory drawing which shows typically the shape at the time of dicing process using the blade 26 which has the both sides tape type cut parts 40. FIG. First, the tip portion 40a provided at an arbitrary position of the cutting portion 40 of the blade 26 is formed as shown in the portion (C) in the portion (A) in FIG. 14. The workpiece W is ground while gradually moving from the surface portion to the deepest portion (lowest point). Subsequently, as shown in (C) to (D) in FIG. 14, the distal end portion 40a of the cut portion 40 has a surface at the deepest portion of the work W. Slowly move towards wealth. At this time, a gap S is formed between the side surface of the grinding groove and the side surface of the blade 26.

That is, in the area | region where the cutting part 40 of the blade 26 cuts inward from the surface of the workpiece | work W, the cutting part 60 which grinding of the workpiece | work W is performed in the blade rotation direction upstream side. On the other hand, on the downstream side, a gap S is formed between the blade side surface (side surface of the cutting portion 40) and the groove side surface, so that grinding of the workpiece W is not performed, but at the upstream cut portion 60. The ground debris is discharged 62 is discharged into the groove.

Burrs or chipping generally occur when the blade is pulled out of the material, as it rubs against the groove side. For this reason, as shown, for example in FIG. 15, when using the blade 90 of the straight type by which the both side surface part was processed parallel to straight form, the blade tip part (cut-off part) is a workpiece | work W The blade side is constantly in contact with the side of the cutting groove from the inside ingress to the outside. For this reason, the side of the cutting groove and the side of the blade are more likely to rub when the blade tip is removed from the inside of the workpiece W as compared to the blade 26 of both tape types, and as a result, it causes burrs and chipping. (See (D) part and (E) in FIG. 15). In addition, in the case of using electroforming blades embedded with diamond abrasive grains, abrasive grains protruding from the blade side attract the scratches on the groove side to facilitate the generation of burrs and chippings on the groove side. .

On the other hand, according to the blade 26 which has both tape type cutting parts 40, as mentioned above, when the blade 26 is pulled out from the workpiece | work W, it gaps between the blade side surface and the groove side surface. Since (S) has been generated, burrs and chipping have not occurred. Moreover, the heat which arises at the time of grinding according to discharge of waste can be discharge | released with waste. This makes it possible to prevent the blade 26 from bending.

In other words, the cutting portion 40 of the blade 26 cuts the workpiece W until the cutting portion W cuts the workpiece W toward the lowest point, and then the blade 26 cuts the workpiece W. Since the blade 26 is pulled out of the workpiece W while the blade 26 is pulled out of the workpiece W while the blade 26 is pulled out of the workpiece W, the chipping is carried out. It is possible to effectively suppress the occurrence of chipping and the like.

In addition, the above cutting process also contributes to suppressing the generation of heat generated by friction caused by the contact between the blade side and the groove side. As a result, the increase in the cutting resistance due to the rise of the heat can be suppressed and the welding of the debris to the blade 26 can be prevented. In addition, in the process of pulling out the blades 26 from the workpiece W, while removing the debris in the groove while removing the debris in the groove W, the debris can be heated to discharge heat. Such cutting chips can be washed away in the subsequent washing. In addition, since the heat generated by the blade 26 and the heat generated by the work W can be suppressed, the heat generated by the blade 26 and the work W can be prevented without supplying a large amount of water to the blade 26 and the work W. It becomes possible to process.

[Relationship between particle diameter and content of diamond abrasive grains]

In this embodiment, in order to process in a ductile mode, it is necessary to consider about an abrasive grain arrangement in the main direction of the blade 26, The reason is as follows.

First, in order to insert a 0.15 micrometer cut, it is preferable that the size of the cutting blade (micro-cutting knife) for inserting the cutting mark is a large abrasive diameter or a cutting blade spacing of about one order. When the cutting edge spacing is larger than 3 digits, it is difficult to put a minute cut in consideration of the deviation of the cutting edge spacing.

In general, the maximum depth of cut at the time of processing is calculated geometrically by moving the blade which set the cutting edge in parallel with the flat sample at substantially equal intervals. Hereinafter, based on FIG. 16, if the hatched portion is a cut debris per blade, the length to be AC determined by the line connecting the blade center O and one point A of the cut debris is one blade. It is the maximum cut depth of sugar (g _max ).

Where D is the blade diameter, Z is the number of blade blades, N is the number of revolutions per minute of the blade, Vs is the circumferential speed of the blade (πDN), Vw is the feed rate of the workpiece, Sz is the feed rate per blade, a is the cut To depth.

so

If the depth of cut (g _max ) is small enough for the blade diameter (D),

therefore,

Instead of the blade number Z of the blade, the maximum cutting depth per blade is obtained by substituting the equation 1 as Z = πD / λ using the cutting edge spacing λ.

Where πDN is apparently equal to the blade circumferential speed (Vs). That is, the relationship between the cutting edge spacing (lambda) and the maximum cutting depth per knife in flat plate processing by the blade is given by the following equation.

Where g _{max is the} depth of the cut per unit blade, λ is the cutting edge spacing, Vω is the workpiece feed rate, Vs is the blade speed, a is the blade depth and D is the blade diameter.

It is clear from now on that the spacing of the cutting edges becomes important in order to keep the depth of the cutting marks per unit cutting edge below a certain level. In addition, the rotational speed of the blade is also important.

According to the relationship shown by this g _max equation, even if Vω: 40 mm / s, Vs: 26166 mm / s, a: 1 mm, D: 50 mm, and λ: 25 μm, only the depth of cut of about 0.027 μm is 0.1 μm or less. It becomes the depth of the cut. If it is this range, since it is below the critical cut depth, it is a range of ductile mode processing.

In order to perform ductile mode processing, the above conditions must be satisfied.

In addition, as a practical condition, the cutting blade spacing of the outer peripheral portion of the blade is formed to be 1 mm pitch with a work thickness of 0.5 mm and a feed speed of 10 mm / s for a 2 inch diameter blade (50 mm diameter) rotated at 10000 rpm. said let (Vω: 10mm / s, Vs : 157x10 4 mm / s, a: 0.5mm, D: 50mm, λ: 1mm).

Even if the conditions are applied, the critical cut depth into which one blade enters is 0.08 μm, and the cut depth is still 0.1 μm or less. Therefore, if the blades are not eccentric and ideally all engraving blades act on the workpiece removal processing, the critical cutting edges that can be formed at the outer periphery of the blade at critical intervals of 1 mm or less may cause excessive cracking. It becomes possible to advance processing without giving.

On the other hand, in SiC, the depth of the critical cut that does not cause cracks is about 0.1 μm, but in other sapphire, glass, silicon, etc., the critical cut depth that does not cause the crack is about 0.2 to 0.5 μm. If it is set to 0.1 m or less, most brittle materials can be processed within the plastic deformation region of the material without causing cracks.

Therefore, it is preferable that the spacing of the blades to be attached around the blade is 1 mm or less.

On the other hand, the spacing of the blade edges around the blades is preferably 1 μm or more. If the average cutting edge spacing is less than or equal to 1 μm, that is, if the cutting edge spacing of a server sub-micron order is owned, the critical cut depth amount and the depth unit of material removal are about the same. In other words, both of them become server sub-micron orders, but under such conditions, it is difficult to actually achieve the removal amount expected by one piece of blade, and on the contrary, the processing speed is drastically lowered by the clogged mode.

Under these circumstances, it is thought that the depth of the critical cutting depth of one engraving blade is not enough to remove the depth of one cutting blade.

On the other hand, the above idea holds true when the cross-sectional area for cutting the work is constant. That is, the sample agrees with the contents regarding the blade which cuts while roughly rotating a blade in a substantially flat sample, sets a blade to a fixed cutting depth with respect to a flat workpiece, and slides a workpiece | work.

In addition, in the above equation, the critical cutting depth given by one cutting blade is also important by the cutting blade spacing. The depth of the cutting edge of one piece of blade affects the distance between the next piece of blade and the presence of a large portion of the piece of blade gap indicates the possibility of spreading the blade crack deeper than the desired critical blade depth. Therefore, the cutting edge spacing is an important factor, and in order to obtain a stable cutting edge spacing, a PCD material obtained by sintering single crystal diamond is preferably used so that the cutting edge spacing is set naturally from the material composition.

However, even if the grain size (average particle diameter) of diamond abrasive grains is large, the gap is dense and if the actual grain spacing is smaller than the particle diameter, the grains of the abrasive grains are further cut. Can be suppressed and controlled. In reality, as an ideal particle diameter, the diamond abrasive grains of about 1 micrometer to about 5 micrometers are preferable.

On the other hand, the particle diameter is not necessarily the interval between the engraving blades. In the case of true through, the spacing of the cutting blades may correspond to the particle diameter. However, in the state of starting to cut and dressing, the cutting blade spacing becomes larger than the abrasive grain diameter.

In other words, if the grain boundary is strictly defined, it is interpreted that the gaps on both sides of one abrasive grain correspond to the carving blade, but in reality, some abrasive grains are missing from the mass. Naturally, the blades form a regular cycle. This can form a blade edge pitch by ruining the blades on average.

17A and 17B show the results of measuring the outer circumferential end of the blade with a roughness gauge. 18A and 18B show photographs of the surface state. Since it is a sintered compact, basically, the part shown on the surface is comprised of diamond which is an abrasive grain.

Moreover, the surface unevenness | corrugation is formed from the diamond grain boundary, and the natural uneven | corrugated shape of substantially equal intervals is comprised. Each one of these recesses acts as a cutting blade to cut the material. As is apparent from the drawing, this engraving blade pitch is 260 and 263 arithmetic in the 4mm range, so it is clear that the engraving blade pitch is at intervals of about 15 μm. In addition, this material is comprised from DA200 by Sumitomo Electric Co., Ltd. hard metal company, and the particle diameter of the diamond particle comprised is nominally 1 micrometer. Thus, although the particle diameter is small, the space | interval of engraving blades is formed larger than that, and it is formed in substantially equal space | interval as apparent from a figure.

Such uniformly spaced blades are formed by forming a blade by a diamond sintered body made by sintering single crystal fine particles.

In this way, the blade tip portion has a large unevenness in order to make a groove in the workpiece. However, the blade side portion is ground so that the end face after cutting the workpiece becomes a mirror surface as compared with the blade tip portion. Therefore, the blade tip portion is formed to be rough in order to form a groove, and the blade side portion is formed well to it.

On the other hand, in the conventional electroforming blade, the spacing of diamond abrasive grains is particularly large compared with the particle diameter. This is because they only plate sparsely scattered diamond abrasive grains and are completely different at the time of plating.

In contrast, in the blade 26 of the present embodiment, the diamond sintered body is composed of very hard and high strength because the sintering aid is melted into the diamond by sintering and the diamonds are firmly bonded to each other. In addition, the diamond sintered body has a relatively high diamond content in comparison with the electroforming blade (see, for example, Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 61-104045), and has a relatively high strength in comparison with the electroforming blade.

In addition, since most of the inside of the blade material is occupied by diamond, it is possible to make the portion other than the diamond volume (including the sintering aid) smaller. In the case of the diamond sintered body, even if the particle diameter is large, the gap between the diamond abrasive grains is substantially reduced. It is possible to make a micron order.

In addition, the recessed part between diamond abrasive grains plays an extremely important role in this invention. Although diamond abrasive grains are extremely hard, some of the cobalt added as a sintering aid penetrates into the diamond, but some remain between the diamond abrasive grains. Compared with diamond, this part is slightly softer in hardness, so that it becomes concave easily in wear during cutting. In other words, there is a part interposed between the diamonds, and the concave between them is made into a small piece of cutting blade to obtain a stable cut without giving excessive cut marks. In addition, the fine engraving blades may act not only as the recesses interposed between the diamonds, but also the recesses where the diamond particles themselves are eliminated as a carving knife. It is good to set this cutting edge spacing so that it does not exceed the critical cutting depth per single knife shown in the previous formula.

For example, the case where the diamond abrasive grain of 25 micrometer particle diameter is hardened by sintering is considered. For the sake of simplicity, it is assumed here that the diamond abrasive grains are 25 μm square cubes. In order to bond diamond abrasive grains, it is supposed to use the part of 1 micrometer on both sides from 25 micrometer outer side as a joining part for bonding with another particle. Then, it becomes a cube of 27 micrometers square. In that case, the volume percentage of diamond abrasive grains is about 78.6%. Therefore, if there is a diamond content of about 80% or more, even if it is a diamond abrasive grain of 25 micrometer particle diameter, the space | interval between the diamond abrasive grains, ie, a particle space | interval, will be about 1 to 2 micrometers at most, and the concave part It becomes a carving blade (slicing knife) to give this cut. If the particle spacing is about 2 μm, even if the particles of the pitch are press-fitted into the work material in the particle spacing, the displacement of the work material is reduced by one or more places compared with the spacing of the diamond abrasive grains. That is, it becomes 0.15 micrometer or less. In addition, it is assumed that engraving blades (micro-cutting knives) are formed at a pitch of 25 µm, and in the case of a blade diameter of 50 mm, 6280 engraving blades are formed per approximately 157 mm of the entire pole. If the blade is rotated at 20000 rpm, 2093333 blades per second can be applied.

This one blade cuts 0.15μm or less and removes about 1/5 of 0.03μm per second. In this way, it is possible to remove about 62799 μm per second with 2093333 micro-cut knives, and theoretically about 6 cm per second.

In view of this, even if a diamond grain having a particle diameter of 25 μm possesses a diamond content of 80% or more, the portion of the gap where the diamond grains are bonded to each other is about 1 to 2 μm, resulting in excess. It becomes possible to set it as 0.15 micrometer as a stable amount of cut depth without giving one cut depth.

In addition, even if the particle size of the diamond abrasive grains is not 25 μm or less, if the diamond content is 80% or more, there is no problem since the critical cut depth is not exceeded in terms of the amount of cut or material removal. It becomes possible to process in a ductile mode, without generating.

As described above, in the case of the diamond sintered body, since the diamond abrasive grains are densely packed, the diamond content is extremely high, and each diamond abrasive grain is used as the size-cutting blade of the diamond abrasive grain. Works.

Moreover, compared with the particle diameter of a diamond abrasive grain, the distance between diamond abrasive grains becomes especially small, and it becomes possible to precisely control it as an amount of cutting cuts. As a result, a stable depth of cut that does not break during processing is ensured without the depth of cut being greater than a predetermined originally planned engraving depth. As a result, it becomes possible to cut in a ductile mode without a miss.

On the other hand, with a large particle diameter of about 25 μm, the content of diamond abrasive grains can be further increased, and if it is commercially available, there is a content of about 93% (diamond content). Then, the ratio of the sintering aid is further reduced, that is, the gap between the diamond abrasive grains is actually small.

In the case of using a diamond having a large particle diameter of 25 μm or more, as mentioned above, the cutting edge spacing is sufficient to perform a ductile mode machining. On the other hand, when the blade thickness is 50 μm or less, such a large abrasive grain is used. I can't make it.

This is because, for example, when fabricating with a blade thickness of 40 μm, at least two diamond abrasive grains must be provided at least in the blade cross section, but theoretically two pieces are not included and 1.6 pieces are provided.

[About Blade Thickness Considering Deformation of Work Material]

In order to stabilize the processing of the ductile mode, as described above, in the depth direction, the cut has to be about 0.15 μm or less. In order to stabilize this cut, the thickness direction displacement (vertical displacement) of the workpiece material to be considered from the width of the cut must also be taken into account.

That is, in the case of removing a cut in a direction parallel to the blade surface (surface perpendicular to the rotation axis of the blade 26) in a wide range, the deformation of the workpiece material accompanying it spreads also in the longitudinal direction (cut depth direction). That is, it is necessary to consider the Poisson's ratio of the work material and to make the finite width of the cut to some extent. If the width of the cutout is extremely large, the deformation effect also extends in the longitudinal direction due to the material deformation caused by the Poisson's ratio. This is because the amount of cut in the predetermined cutoff depth or more may enter, and as a result, the breakage of the work W may be caused.

Here, the blade thickness (blade width) of the blade that can stably cut when considering the influence of Poisson's ratio is considered. Table 4 shows the relationship between the Young's modulus and Poisson's ratio of brittle materials.

      Workpiece material          Young's modulus [Gpa]   Poisson's ratio         silicon 130 0.177          quartz 76.5 0.17        Sapphire 335 0.25          SiC 450 0.17

Here, one piece of blade shall cut a mark on the work material. In addition, a fine straight blade tip is not arbitrarily sharpened, and if it is always processed, the cross-sectional shape will become a semi-circular shape.

In such a case, for example, if a 0.15 μm cut is applied to a blade tip on a cuboid, the cutting edge is given in parallel with a width of about 1 μm, and according to Poisson's ratio, the blade tip is incidentally simply 0.17 in the longitudinal direction. The displacement is about μm, which is close to the actual amount of cut. In practice, Poisson's ratio influences not only vertical displacement but also horizontal direction, so it can be given as a cut amount if it is about 1μm wide.

However, as shown in Fig. 19, in the case of a 0.15 μm cut with respect to the workpiece material, the blade tip (blade outer periphery) of the substantially semi-circular shape is not uniformly displaced in parallel as the width of the cut, so considering the start of the outer periphery. For example, a circular arc width of about 5 μm can be cut without being influenced by Poisson's ratio. That is, Rsin (theta) = 2.5 and R (1-cos (theta)) = 0.15.

Inverting this, the blade radius of the tip portion is about 25 μm, and the vertex angle θ that gives the 5 μm wide cut is about 12 °.

Therefore, it is necessary to restrain within 50 micrometers as the width | variety of the blade blade in material. If it is more than that, each point plane acts on the material at the same time, which sometimes leads to the occurrence of minute cracks.

On the other hand, if the curvature is higher than the curvature, that is, the blade thickness of about 30 μm, since the cutting blade acts locally than the above state, the width of the cutting blade basically does not affect the cutting depth, and thus stably cuts the blade. Can make

On the other hand, the width of the blade also has a viewpoint in the case of machining in a ductile mode, but is also strongly related to the buckling strength of the blade alone.

The width of the blade is also limited by the workpiece thickness.

Here, the relationship between the blade width and the workpiece thickness is shown.

The work is generally supported by a dicing tape. Since a dicing tape is an elastic body, unlike a hard material like a workpiece | work, it is easy to displace in the longitudinal direction (Z direction) with a little stress. When cutting a workpiece | work with a blade here, the cross-sectional shape of the part cut | disconnected in a workpiece | work, and the diagonal line part shown in FIG. 20A becomes important.

In the case of l> h in which the blade thickness l (contact area) is larger than the workpiece thickness h, as shown in Fig. 20B, the portion where the blade abuts (the portion to be removed) becomes a horizontally long rectangle. In the case where the cross-sectional portion of the object to be removed becomes a horizontally long rectangle, when a distribution load is applied from the upper side, a state of bowing occurs due to the bending, and the maximum displacement of the bending becomes as follows (actually the board It is a deflection of, but it is simply a matter of girder and assumes a distributed load.

For rectangular girders whose cross section is height h with depth b,

For this reason, the above equation is as follows.

The maximum warp is inversely proportional to the third power of the workpiece thickness h to the center portion of the girder and is proportional to the fourth power of the blade contact region 1.

Particularly, in (l / h) ³ , when l / h is smaller than 1 and l / h is smaller than 1, the curvature is particularly small, whereas when l / h is larger than 1, the curvature is particularly large. Thereby, it is divided into a case where warpage occurs and a case where it does not occur in the shape of the relative thickness of the blade thickness l (blade contact area) and the workpiece thickness h.

If the blade contact area is larger than the workpiece thickness (l> h), the work will be bent in the contact area, but if the work is wheeled, vibration of the work may be caused by bent up and down intermittently in the plane to achieve a predetermined cut. You will not be able to. As a result, a deadly cut is given from the blade due to the longitudinal vibration of the work, and the work surface is broken.

Therefore, in particular, in the processing by the PCD blade of the present invention, since the crack-free processing is required, it is necessary to stably and faithfully keep a predetermined cut depth. To this end, in addition to setting the depth of cut by the cutting edge spacing control, a predetermined cut must be secured with high precision by suppressing the vertical vibration during the processing of the work bar.

Therefore, the blade thickness must be thinner than the thickness of the target workpiece as shown in Fig. 20C.

For example, when the workpiece thickness is 50 μm or less, the thickness of the blade must naturally be 50 μm or less.

In this case, the workpiece does not bend in the contact area. On the other hand, the bending or compressing stress acts in the contact region, but the work is constrained by Poisson's ratio as a continuum that is dense in the transverse direction. As a result, it is possible to work locally at a predetermined cut without acting on the stress given from the blade as a reaction force from the work and, as a result, breaking.

[Comparison with Conventional Blades]

In the case of the electroforming blade as described in Patent Literature 1, the diamonds are sparsely present so as to disperse the diamonds and to plate them thereon, and furthermore, they have a protruding configuration. As a result, the protruding parts may give excessive cuts, as a matter of course, causing brittle fracture. On the other hand, the portion where the bottom and the side portion of the groove are also continuous is so closely formed that the work materials are close to each other that the crack is hard to enter immediately, but the part where the blade disappears is most likely to be cracked or broken. It is like a burr coming out when the blade is pulled out because the workpiece material is not continuous and there is no support.

In the blade of Patent Document 2, since the film is formed by the CVD method, there is no protruding crack. However, it is impossible to control the arrangement of the cutting blades at the blade ends, the planar state and the bending of the blade side portions.

In particular, in the blade side portion, the unevenness of the film thickness during film formation corresponds to the uneven thickness of the blade as it is. In addition, since the surface of the film is just an innocent face, it is in full contact with the side of the material, causing frictional heat, or there is a subtle bend, which causes the bend to break the material.

On the other hand, in the blade 26 of this embodiment, since it is integrally comprised from the diamond sintered compact sintered using the sintering aid of a soft metal, it becomes possible to form a blade outer peripheral edge part and a blade side part by abrasion treatment. In particular, it is also possible to change the abrasion treatment conditions in order to make the blade outer peripheral end into the predetermined engraving blade as described above to become the engraving blade. On the other hand, the role of the blade side portion is first to exclude the debris, but when the contact with the workpiece side, the blade side portion is damaged to a degree that it is stable and does not excessively contact, but is stable and cuts the workpiece side minutely. It is preferable that it becomes.

In this way, it is impossible to design the outer peripheral end of the blade and the blade side portion in a desired surface state according to the state thereof, and to be able to produce such a surface by the technique of both cited documents.

On the other hand, the blade used in scribing is not suitable for processing in the flexible mode for the following reasons.

In other words, in scribing, the blade itself is not rotated, so that the finely divided blades themselves are arranged at equal intervals. For example, even if there are engraving blades, it is not a micro cutting blade due to the grain boundary of the micron order, but when a large engraving blade is used, the material is cracked in dicing at high speed. Can not use it.

Moreover, even if the blade which has a fine engraving blade according to a grain boundary is used for scribing, the fine engraving blade does not function as a engraving blade giving a crack of scribing.

In addition, scribing presses the blade in the vertical direction. Therefore, stress is applied in the vertical direction downward to the axis passing through the blade, and the blade is configured to slide with respect to the axis. Since the shaft and the blade are not fixedly used, the clearance of the blade relative to the shaft is low, and since the blade itself does not rotate at high speed, there is no need to install a reference surface on one side of the blade.

In addition, even if a blade for scribing a fine blade tip of 50 μm or less, in particular 30 μm or less, is manufactured, the blade is received as a thin bearing and there is no reference surface to receive a wide surface on one side of the blade. Straightness cannot be secured. As a result, the blade of the fine blade tip is buckled and cannot be used.

[Blade Strength]

Next, the relationship between the strength (elasticity) of the blade material and the strength (elasticity) of the work material will be described.

In order for the blade to be cut into the workpiece with a certain amount of cut as it is, the blade material needs a large strength with respect to the work material. If the blade material is simply made of a soft material, that is, a material having a small Young's modulus, if the work material is a member of high elastic modulus even when the blade is made to advance the blade by applying a very fine blade tip portion to the work surface, The work surface cannot be deformed minutely, and the blade itself buckles when attempting to forcibly deform it. As a result, machining does not proceed as a result. Here, the buckling load P of the long column of support at both ends is given by

In addition, E: Young's modulus, I: Cross-sectional secondary moment, l: Length of a long pillar (corresponding to blade diameter).

If the blade possesses a lower modulus of elasticity than the work material, in order to advance the processing while suppressing the buckling deformation of the blade, a cross-sectional secondary moment of the degree of not buckling deformation is required, and specifically, the blade thickness will not be thickened. Can not. However, especially in the case of processing brittle materials, when the blade thickness is thicker than the workpiece thickness, the workpiece material surface is deformed and pressed down. Therefore, the blade thickness must be thinner than the workpiece thickness.

As a result, the blade material must use a higher elastic modulus than the work material.

This relationship corresponds to the difference between the conventional electroforming blade and the blade 26 of the present embodiment. In other words, in the electroforming blade, the diamond abrasive grains are bonded with a bonding material such as nickel, so that the material is nickel base. The Young's modulus of nickel is 219 GPa, but for example SiC is 450 GPa. The diamond abrasive grains, which are electrodeposited on nickel, are 970 GPa, but because they exist independently of each other, they are eventually dominated by the Young's Young's modulus. In that case, in principle, since the work material is highly elastic, the thickness of the work must additionally be coped with. As a result, the thickness of the electroforming blade is increased to increase the contact area, which causes cracks and cracks.

On the other hand, in the case of the blade 26 of the present embodiment, the Young's modulus of the diamond sintered body is 700 to 800 GPa equivalent because the diamonds are bonded to each other. This is mostly comparable to the Young's modulus of diamonds.

When the elasticity modulus of the blade 26 is larger than the elasticity modulus of the workpiece | work W here, when the blade 26 cuts, the surface of the workpiece | work W side instead of the blade 26 will deform | transform. It becomes possible to process and remove a cut as it is while the workpiece | work W side deform | transforms. In addition, the blade 26 does not buckling in the process. Therefore, even with the extremely sharp blade 26, it is possible to advance the processing without buckling.

Table 5 shows the Young's modulus of each material. As is apparent from Table 5, diamond sintered compact (PCD) has a particularly high Young's modulus even when compared to most materials such as sapphire and SiC. For this reason, even a blade finer than the thickness of a workpiece material can be processed.

 material  Young's modulus [GPa]  Vickers Hardness Hv  silicon  130  1050  quartz   76.5  1100  Sapphire  335  2300  SiC  450  2300  nickel  219   600  copper  129.8   369  PCD  700-800  8000-12000

Next, although the hardness relationship of a workpiece | work material and a blade material is demonstrated, the relationship of hardness is also the same as the modulus of elasticity mentioned above.

When the hardness of the blade material is lower than the hardness of the work material, for example, in the case of an electroforming blade, soft copper or nickel supports diamond. The diamond abrasive grains on the surface are extremely high in hardness, but the nickel hardness holding the diamond abrasive grains under them is extremely low compared to diamond. Therefore, when an impact is given to a diamond abrasive grain, the nickel below it will absorb an impact. As a result, in the case of electroforming blades, the hardness of nickel is dominant. As a result, even when hard diamond abrasive grains collide with the work material and attempt to cut the workpiece, the binder absorbs the impact. It is difficult to give a cut. Therefore, in order to advance the machining, the machining does not proceed unless a certain rotation speed of the blade is imparted to the diamond. In addition, at this time, a single shock is absorbed by nickel, and the reaction force presses the work material with a large force through diamond abrasive grains, thereby brittlely destroying the work material.

On the other hand, in the case of the blade 26 of the present embodiment, the diamond sintered body has a hardness comparable to that of the diamond single crystal and is particularly high in hardness even when compared to a hard brittle material such as sapphire and SiC. As a result, even if the cutting blade (micro-cutting knife) composed of the concave portion formed on the surface of the diamond sintered body acts on the work material, the impact acts locally on the small cutting blade portion as it is, and with the sharp tip portion. It becomes possible to remove and process the very small part with precision.

As described above, according to the blade 26 of the present embodiment, the blade sintered body 80 composed of 80% or more of the diamond abrasive grains 82 is integrally formed in a disc shape, and the blade ( In the outer peripheral portion of 26), cutting blades 40 are formed in which the cutting blades (micro-cutting knife) consisting of recesses formed on the surface of the diamond sintered body are continuously arranged along the main direction. do. For this reason, compared with the conventional electroforming blade, it becomes possible to suppress the cutting amount of the blade 26 with respect to a workpiece with high precision. As a result, even with a workpiece made of brittle material, the blade 26 is cut in a state in which the cutting amount of the blade 26 is set to be equal to or less than the critical cutting amount of the workpiece, so that the cutting is stable in a ductile mode without generating cracks or cracks, and the cutting is accurate. I can process it.

Moreover, the recessed part formed in the surface of the diamond sintered compact 80 functions as a pocket which conveys the debris which arises when processing the workpiece | work W. As shown in FIG. Thereby, the discharge | emission property of a waste improves and it becomes possible to discharge | release the heat which arises at the time of a process with waste. In addition, since the diamond sintered body 80 has high thermal conductivity, heat generated at the time of cutting is not accumulated in the blade 26, and the diamond sintered body 80 has an effect of preventing the increase in cutting resistance and the bending of the blade 26.

Moreover, in the dicing process which employ | adopted the blade 26 of this embodiment, it is preferable that the rotation direction of the blade 26 is a down cut direction. That is, when moving the workpiece W relative to the blade 26 while giving a cut with respect to the workpiece W, as shown in Fig. 14, the carving knife of the blade 26 is cut into the workpiece surface. An aspect in which dicing is performed while rotating the blade 26 in the rotational direction is preferable.

Moreover, in the dicing process which employ | adopted the blade 26 of this embodiment, when moving the workpiece | work W with respect to the blade 26 relative to the blade 26, giving the blade W constant blade to the workpiece | work W, The aspect which gives fine particle to (26) is preferable.

Here, the reason why the said aspect is preferable is demonstrated in detail below.

In the case of a disk-shaped blade composed of a diamond sintered body as in the present embodiment, concave occurs in the grain boundary between diamond particles. The concave portion acts as a carving blade. Alternatively, the engraving blade is formed from the unevenness due to the roughness naturally formed, and in particular, the engraving blade is formed in the concave portion.

The action of the outer peripheral part of the blade is mainly due to the action of the cutting blade, you must remove the debris while further cutting the cutting of the cutting blade on the work.

On the other hand, it is important to tame the blade side by cutting the side that has already been cut at the blade tip from the side of the blade, rather than advancing the workpiece cutting. For this purpose, it is necessary to cut the work side while smoothly lubricating the work side and the blade side without intruding the blade side more than the engraving blade acting actively.

As a method of smoothly lubricating the workpiece side and the blade side without flocking on the blade side, it is an effective method to apply fine particles to the dicing blade.

In particular, the groove portion of which the blade tip has just been removed has only a new side of the work side, and thus a very active side appears depending on the work material. The active side is also likely to interact with other materials, especially with the diamond sintered body, which is a blade material. In order to prevent this, it is necessary to consider lubrication between the blade side portion and the workpiece material immediately after the blade tip is removed.

Therefore, the action of the fine particles on the blade side made of sintered diamond plays a big role as an effect of improving the lubrication effect between the blade and the work.

When the fine particles are applied to the side surfaces of the blade made of sintered diamond, as mentioned above, the sintered diamond possesses a large number of concave portions in the grain boundary portion and the uneven surface composed of natural roughness. Microparticles | fine-particles are received in the recessed part. When the blade side is working while rubbing against the work, the accumulated fine particles jump into the concave portion formed by the diamond sintered body, and are continuously driven between the blade side and the work side. Although the vibration of this continuous fine particle is called a "bearing effect", the blade and the surface of the workpiece are tacked to prevent moisture, thereby forming a lubricating effect between the blade and the workpiece.

In addition, this lubrication effect is not only limited to the lubrication effect that prevents water from running over between the blade and the workpiece. The bearing effect of the fine particles also acts to grind the side surfaces of the workpiece.

As the fine particles vibrate, the fine particles rub against the side of the workpiece, thereby polishing the side of the workpiece. As a result, the workpiece side is simply mirrored without leaving any polishing streaks, such as those polished with fixed abrasive grains. Can be formed.

Such a lubricating effect is that when grooves are formed on both sides of the blade in the form of rotation, the particles tend to vibrate, that is, a bearing effect appears. For example, in the cross section of the blade radial direction, a V-shaped groove having a good lateral surface may be provided in the cross section of the portion where the blade is forced into the work. The fine particles then enter between the V grooves and vibrate along the V grooves as the blade rotates. As a result, the microparticles | fine-particles roll along a V-shaped groove between a workpiece | work material and a blade, and a bearing effect appears. When the transmission effect occurs, the fine particles are different from the fixed abrasive grains, and thus, each of the fine particles changes their direction and acts randomly, so that no polishing streaks in one direction are left. Is exerted. As a result, it becomes possible to obtain the mirror surface from which the polishing streak was removed.

As a method of processing while using such fine particles, for example, the fine particles are hardened by pre-firing or the like, and the fine particles that have flowed down as the fine particles flow down from the surface of the blade formed of the hardened fine particles are transferred to the mirror surface. You may recall the blade processing.

However, in the blade which baked these electrically-driven microparticles | fine-particles on the blade surface previously, processing advances and the blade becomes detailed as much as the particle | grains fall out. In other words, it is not possible to form a stable constant groove width. In addition, it becomes difficult to continuously and continuously supply the fine particles continuously.

In addition, in order to continuously operate the fine particles, it means that the blade side is continuously worn to supply the fine particles. However, in such a blade, it is difficult to stably configure the concave portion in which the fine particles are stored, and the concave portion has a high hardness diamond. It can not be formed. Moreover, the blade member itself cannot supply the blade which formed arbitrary rigidity with high rigidity.

In addition, in such a flaky material, since the hardness of the blade itself supporting the base can not be secured, it becomes difficult to give a constant cut to the work while the fine particles vibrate.

On the other hand, such a lubrication effect cannot be obtained in a conventional electroforming blade fixed with a bonding material such as nickel. This is because, in the electroforming blade, diamonds protrude from place to place on the surface of the bonding material. That is, it has the surface form as if there are protrusions here and there on the plane.

Since the diamond exists in the protruding state, when the binder forming the reference plane is removed, the critical cut depth of the abrasive grain cannot be controlled. Therefore, fatal cracks are caused on the work side. Even if the fine particles are introduced as in the above embodiment, in some cases the workpiece side may be mirrored even if there is no concave, but even if the fine particles are acted on the blade side to produce a polishing effect, protruding diamonds of fixed abrasive grains are formed on one side. In the case of grinding, still the workpiece side remains grinding streaks, while potential cracks due to protrusion are forced. On the other hand, the effect of the mirror-mirror microparticles while vibrating becomes insignificant when combined with processing phenomena involving brittle fracture while causing cracks.

Moreover, when the blade surface is seen, the diamond which protrudes in the plane is in the state scattered. That is, there is no concave portion where the fine particles accumulate on the blade side.

If the particles are missing, that is, even if fine particles accumulate between the bonding material such as nickel, the concave portion formed by the metal material such as nickel has a lower hardness than the material used for the fine particles. Even if the fine particles have escaped from the concave portion, the concave portion formed with a metallic material such as nickel does not have a function as a cutting blade, and the portion where the fine particles are missing, on the contrary, wears on the blade side of the soft metal such as nickel. On the other hand, there is little effect of grinding | polishing removal of a workpiece | work. As a result, the effect of polishing the workpiece cannot be expected simply by the blade itself being gradually bent.

When the binding material of the blade is worn by the fine particles, it means that the blade thickness is changed during processing by the abrasive removal action on the binder by the fine particles. For example, in groove processing, when the groove width is strictly controlled, the blade is hardly usable in the process of being worn out in a moment, and does not make sense as a blade to be processed.

In contrast, in the case of a blade composed of a diamond sintered body as in the present embodiment, first, the blade is composed of a sintered body of diamond. Moreover, it is preferable that the content of the diamond is also 80% or more.

With respect to the blade composed of the diamond sintered body, the fine particles accumulate in the concave portion of the sintered compact, and are rotated in a state where the fine particles come out by rubbing with the work there. Since the periphery of the concave portion is made of diamond, the fine particles act on the lead portion of the concave portion of the diamond so that the work is polished.

Since the concave portion has a relatively high proportion of the sintering aid, the concave portion is selectively removed by friction to form a concave, but the portion that is not concave is diamond rich on the contrary, and the hardness is usually higher than that of the work material. Therefore, the microparticles | fine-particles which came out from the recessed part can hold | maintain a high hardness diamond in the recessed soft part, and microparticles | fine-particles act by the electric movement in the lead comprised from the high hardness diamond. As a result, pressure to polish on the work side is applied, and the work is polished efficiently.

In this way, it becomes possible to achieve both the effective retention of fine particles and the effect of the fine particles rolling on hard diamond.

(Feeding method of fine particles)

The method for supplying the fine particles is not particularly limited as long as it can obtain the above-described effects. For example, the following methods (first to third examples) can be preferably employed.

<Example 1>

As an example (first example) of the method of supplying the fine particles, there is a method of coating the blade with the fine particles contained in the liquid in a capillary structure directly on the blade.

As microparticles | fine-particles to be used, microparticles | fine-particles, such as WA white alumina abrasive grain, GC green carborundum abrasive grain, and diamond abrasive grain: are used preferably. The particle diameter may use microparticles | fine-particles of various particle diameters about 0.01 micrometer-about 10 micrometers. The material of the particle diameter and the fine particles to be used may be appropriately optimized according to the work material and the purpose thereof. For example, in the case of cutting for the purpose of removing the grinding marks on the cut side of the PC board or the copper board, WA having a particle diameter of about 1 μm is suitable.

In addition, when these fine particles are used as powder, fine particles are blown off at the wind pressure of the blade rotating at high speed. Therefore, it is good to suspend and use microparticles in a liquid. Water is the simplest liquid to be suspended, but may be suspended in ethanol, IPA (isopropyl alcohol) or the like in order to effectively attach the fine particles to the blade surface. Moreover, you may use lubricating oils, such as lapping oil. The solvent for suspending the fine particles may be appropriately optimized depending on the properties of the work. Even when lapping oil or the like is used, it is supplied only to the blades and not directly to the workpiece.

The liquid containing the microparticles supplied to the blade acts only on the cut surface of the workpiece and does not act on the workpiece surface. Therefore, when viewed from the work, the lubrication effect prevents the generation of heat and at the same time does not supply a special liquid to the surface of the work. Therefore, in the conventional wet environment, the workpiece which wets the surface chip and spoils the element can be processed like dry processing.

The place where the liquid is to act is preferably placed in the workpiece immediately before the blade is cut. Since the blade is rotating at a high speed and a part of it is blown off by the centrifugal force, it is preferable that the blade is just before forcing into the work.

On the other hand, if the application to the blade is a liquid containing no fine particles, it does not mean completely. When painting a liquid containing no fine particles, the ability to grind the cut side of the workpiece basically does not work. Therefore, the liquid which does not contain microparticles | fine-particles does not mean that even if apply | coated.

Moreover, the liquid which does not contain microparticles | fine-particles is low in viscosity, and when microparticles | fine-particles are included, the interfacial tension between microparticles and a liquid acts, and binding force becomes high, and as a result, it becomes possible to raise a viscosity overall. If the viscosity can be increased, even when applied to the blade, the liquid containing fine particles is not blown off by the centrifugal force of the blade, and it is possible to efficiently apply the liquid containing fine particles to the blade side or the tip.

* For example, there is a method of processing while supplying a slurry containing fine particles, but it is sometimes applied to processing the work in a dry state strictly because it wets a place other than the cutting place in the work. It is not possible.

Moreover, when supplying a liquid slurry according to a workpiece | work, it is not necessary for a slurry to adhere to a workpiece | work, but the viscosity which flows along with a workpiece needs to be low. However, in such a case, when a slurry contacts a blade which rotates at a high speed, there is a problem that the slurry is blown off. In particular, in a blade composed of a diamond sintered body, when the concave portion is very small and effectively receives the fine particles into the pocket of such a portion, the wind pressure and the centrifugal force of the blade are dominant, so that the fine particles may hardly stay on the blade.

On the other hand, in the supply method of microparticles | fine-particles in this example, microparticles are suspended in a liquid and the suspension is apply | coated to the blade side surface. As a coating method, a capillary structure such as a brush is used, and a method of applying a liquid to a blade solid rotating into a solid by a capillary principle of liquid while supplying the liquid to leave the particulate component contained in the liquid to act the fine particles on the blade.

In general, even when the fine particles are to be applied to the blade, it is very difficult to apply the solid fine particles to the blade side that rotates at a high speed so that the fine particles are attached.

Therefore, it is a good and efficient way to use a liquid, dissolve the fine particles in the liquid, mix them into a suspension state, and apply the fine particles to the blade surface in such a state.

First, by dissolving and mixing fine particles in a liquid, the viscosity is increased, the surface tension is increased, and the gel can be formed. The liquid is forced between the fine particles to increase the surface tension.

Thus, by dissolving and mixing the fine particles in the liquid, it is possible to reliably act on the blade surface as a liquid having a high viscosity of the surface tension unlike the case where only the liquid is applied to the blade.

As a method of apply | coating the liquid containing microparticles | fine-particles to this blade surface, the supply mechanism of microparticles | fine-particles shown in FIG. 24 and FIG. 25 can be employ | adopted preferably, for example. As shown in the figure, the blade 26 is surrounded by a flange cover 100 fixed to the side of the spindle 28 (see FIG. 1) to be installed at a portion of the flange cover 100. The liquid supply pipe 102 serving as the liquid supply means and the liquid containing the fine particles from the liquid supply pipe 102 are supplied to both sides of the blade 26 by capillary action. The supply mechanism 106 provided with the capillary structure member 104 for feeding to the side is provided.

As the capillary structural member 104, any of a brush-like member, a brush-like member or a foam member is used. That is, a structural member in which a small space is continuously present in a gap is used. The capillary structural member 104 is slightly curved between the lower end of the liquid supply pipe 102 and the main side of the blade 26, as shown in FIG. 25, so that both ends thereof are in accordance with the rotational direction of the blade 26. From both main sides of the blade 26. The capillary structure member 104 is formed in a required width so as to uniformly paint a liquid containing fine particles on the main side of the blade 26.

Further, as shown in FIG. 25, a rigid member guide member 108 is provided at the lower end of the liquid supply pipe 102 to guide the tip of the capillary structure member 104 to the main side surface of the blade 26. have. As constituent materials, such as a brush-like member and a brush-like member, as the capillary structural member 104, soft linear members, such as a wire rod of polyester material and cotton fiber, can also be used preferably. If a soft linear member or the like is used, even if it comes into contact with the blade 26 rotating at high speed, the blade 26 side is not excessively damaged.

And even in the capillary structural member 104 using such a soft linear member, the capillary tube is guided by guiding the distal end portion of the capillary structural member 104 to the main side surface of the blade 26 with a rigid guide member 108. Blade which rotates at a high speed by guiding the tip of the capillary structure member 104, which is a soft linear member, to be brought into contact with the blade 26 without being affected by gravity or the like of the liquid present in the gap in the structural member 104. It becomes possible to reliably supply the liquid containing microparticles | fine-particles to the main side surface of (26).

Thus, according to the supply method of the microparticles | fine-particles in this example, it becomes possible to apply the liquid containing microparticles to the blade side surface. Thereby, the capillary structure itself to be applied to the blades is brought into contact with the blades, and fine particles contained in the liquid can be allowed to advance into the work side portion using the interfacial tension working between the liquid and the solid.

In the method of pouring the liquid hard against the blade which rotates at a high speed, the liquid is blown off the blade, and as a result, the particles cannot be effectively applied to the blade, but the liquid is applied to the blade by using interfacial tension. Fine particles can be supplied along the blade side.

When a liquid containing fine particles is applied to the blade, the liquid is attached to the recessed portion of the blade surface by the interfacial tension of the liquid. Since the blade is rotating at a high speed by standing rotation, part of the liquid attached to the blade is dried, and heat generated by polishing by the fine particles can be taken away by the heat of vaporization. Thus, even polishing, polishing can be performed without excessive heat generation.

It has never been cooled by spraying water on other workpieces just by applying it to the blades. In some cases, only a small amount of liquid is applied to the blade, so that the workpiece can be dried and processed.

As a result, it becomes possible to advance the physical polishing process by the rolling of microparticles more efficiently.

In addition, when the fine particles come out of the concave portion, the fine particles are interposed between the edge portion of the concave formed from the diamond particles below and the workpiece, so that the workpiece is reliably given the cutting of the fine particles to be transmitted to the workpiece. It can be polished.

(Example 2)

As another example (second example) of the method of supplying the fine particles, there is a method in which gel fine particles are applied in advance to a portion where the blade advances on the work.

In this method, a high concentration of fine particles is suspended in a small amount of water in advance in the portion where the blade proceeds, and then attached to a fine line as the portion where the blade proceeds. As a method of attaching, it may be pushed and attached with a syringe or the like.

(Third example)

As another example (third example) of the method of supplying the fine particles, a thin sheet coated with particles is applied on the work, and the thin sheet is naturally cut in the sheet-like fine particles to act as the fine particles between the work and the blade. There is a way to make it.

In this method, fine particles of high density are applied on a thin sheet in advance. It sticks on the board | substrate which cuts or grooves.

When processing a predetermined portion on the substrate is processed with a thin sheet that could be attached to the surface, but processing the substrate while processing the thin sheet, the fine particles applied to the thin sheet is naturally attached to the blade surface while adhering to the blade surface It becomes possible to process a board | substrate, supplying microparticles | fine-particles and attracting microparticles | fine-particles adhering to the blade surface.

As mentioned above, although the dicing apparatus and dicing method of this invention were demonstrated in detail, this invention is not limited to the above example, Of course, various improvement and modification may be made within the range which does not deviate from the summary of this invention. .

10... Die new and old devices, 20. Machining,
26... Blade, 28... Spindle,
30... Work table, 36... Anniversary,
38... Mounting hole, 40... Knife,
42... Diamond abrasive grains, 44... Spindle body,
46... Spindle axis, 48.. Hub flange,
80... Diamond sintered body, 82... Diamond Grit,
84... Carving blade, 86... Sintering aid

Claims (22)

In the soft mode processing apparatus for processing a workpiece composed of brittle material in the soft mode,
A dicing blade for ductile mode machining, comprising: a dicing blade integrally formed in a disc shape by polycrystalline diamond, which is a sintered binder of diamond abrasive grains,
A rotating mechanism for rotating the dicing blade;
And a moving mechanism for moving the work relative to the dicing blade while giving a constant cut depth to the work by the dicing blade,
The outer peripheral portion of the polycrystalline diamond, as a cutting blade for processing the workpiece in the flexible mode, has a recess formed between the diamond abrasive grains,
The outer peripheral portion of the polycrystalline diamond is formed with a plurality of the recessed portions throughout the circumferential direction,
The cut depth is less than or equal to the critical cut depth causing brittle fracture of the workpiece,
Flexible mode processing unit. The method of claim 1,
The said polycrystalline diamond is a soft mode processing apparatus whose content of the said diamond abrasive grain is 80 vol% or more. delete The method according to claim 1 or 2,
The soft grain processing apparatus of Claim 2 whose average particle diameter of a diamond abrasive grain is 25 micrometers or less. delete delete delete delete delete delete delete delete delete delete delete delete delete delete delete delete delete delete

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