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• the present invention relates to a chip module with a substrate and at least one chip arranged on the substrate.
• the present invention also relates to a method for producing a chip module according to the preamble of claim 7
• Chip modules with a chip arranged on a substrate are generally used where it is important to facilitate electrical contacting of the chip by means of the connection conductors of the substrate, which are significantly enlarged compared to the chip connection areas.
• Such chip modules are used, for example, in chip cards are used and, via the connection conductors of the substrate, which are exposed on the card surface, enable "external contacting" of the chips accommodated by the arrangement on the back of the substrate inside the chip card.
• chip modules are also used to construct so-called contactless chip cards used, in which the connection conductors of the substrate serve to facilitate contacting with an antenna coil arranged inside the card body.
• such chip modules can be used For example, to build a so-called "Combi-Card", in which both an external contact for contact-based access to the card chip and an internal contact for contactless access to the chip via the antenna coil are made possible via the substrate
• the combination of a chip with the substrate to form the chip module results in a relatively thick bond compared to the thickness of the chip or to the thickness of the substrate, which has to be accommodated in a card body which is fixed in terms of its external dimensions, in order to accommodate a chip
• a card body which is fixed in terms of its external dimensions, in order to accommodate a chip
• the flexible card body Compared to the flexible card body have a higher bending stiffness, so that when the card body bends frequently in everyday operation, especially when the substrate is arranged in the card surface, as is the case with a contact card, the connection between the chip module is subject to high loads and the card body can come to a detachment of the chip module from the card body
• the chip is contacted with connection surfaces arranged on its front side on contact surfaces of the substrate and has one due to material removal on the Surface of its back reduced thickness compared to its original thickness
• the electrical circuit planes in the silicon body of the chip are arranged adjacent to the front or contact side of the chip, which is provided with the connection surfaces, and the region of the silicon adjacent to the surface of the rear side. Body free of electrical circuit levels is therefore possible without impairing the function of the chip, the surface of the chip from the back until a minimum thickness of the chip body that ensures the proper functioning of the chip is achieved, thereby making the chip much thinner
• Reduction of the chip thickness of the chip is adapted in its bending behavior to the bending behavior of the substrate, so that an overall more flexible, more flexible chip module is created, which in its bending behavior corresponds more to the bending behavior of the card body
• the chip protrudes into recesses of the substrate, the bottom of which is formed by the conductor track structure, to form an interlocking contact with contact stools formed on the connection surfaces. Because of the arrangement engaging in the recesses of the substrate, the contact stool becomes a particularly shear-resistant connection between the chip and the substrate is achieved. In addition, due to this “countersinking” of the contact stools into the substrate, the configuration of the chip module results in a particularly flat design of the chip module
• the contact stools can be made from any electrically conductive material
• Material be formed, such as an electrically conductive adhesive or a contact metallization from a solder material or the like.
• the contact stools of the chip are embedded in an electrically conductive connecting material which is arranged in the recesses of the substrate.
• an electrically conductive connecting material which is arranged in the recesses of the substrate.
• the application of an underfiller known from “underfiller technology” can also be dispensed with the mechanically stabilizing effect of the underfiller, which increases the shear strength of the chip module, can be dispensed with, since the “embedding” of the contact stool and the associated covering of the contact stool by the connecting material on all sides, at least in some areas of the contact metallizations, result in a particularly firm, mechanically resilient connection is created
• the type of intermeshing contact between a chip and a substrate discussed above also has considerable advantages regardless of whether the contacted chip is a chip that is reduced in thickness by material removal or a conventional chip, in particular when it comes to this goes to form a mechanically stable chip module
• At least one further of can be provided on the chip surface in addition to the contact stools which are electrically conductively connected to the chip structure the chip structure can be provided with an electrically independent projection which engages in a fastening recess in the substrate.
• This projection which can be designed and manufactured identically to the contact stools which form the electrical connections, creates a "contact dummy" which only has a mechanically stabilizing function
• a further mechanical stabilization or a sealing seal can be provided via a peripheral or flat adhesive application
• the first step is to form a handling unit, which is a kind of an intermediate product in the production of the final chip module, from at least one chip and a substrate by contacting the chip or chips on the one with Substrate structure provided substrate, such that the chip or the chips are or are contacted with its or their connection surfaces on contact surfaces of the substrate, and then the chip or the chips are processed by a material removal process on its or its rear side, the substrate for handling and stabilizing the chip or chips during the processing process
• connection surfaces of the chip to be contacted and / or the contact surfaces of the substrate or the contact stools or connection material tops which may be applied thereon can be cleaned selectively
• the substrate comes to enlarge the connection areas for subsequent contacting the function of a receiving device for receiving the chip during the processing.
• This function only makes it easy to handle the chips during the processing of the chips isolated on the substrate, that is to say already removed from a wafer composite
• a plurality of chips are contacted on a continuously formed substrate band to form the handling unit, and the substrate band is separated to form individual chip modules after the processing of the individual chips.
• the substrate band is continuously loaded with Chips and a subsequent, continuous processing of the individual chips to form the reduced-thickness chip modules are possible, so that the reduced-thickness chip modules can also be produced in a particularly economical manner
• the processing of several chips can be carried out simultaneously.
• a tool can be used which enables the simultaneous processing of several chips, or the chips can also be processed simultaneously with different tools
• the processing of the chips can be done by grinding or Lapping is done Another way of editing the chips
• Chips to achieve a chip module with a reduced thickness consists in carrying out a chemical etching process on the back of the chip
• connection material required for establishing the connection can be of different types and forms of administration.
• the connection material can be introduced into the recesses by flat application to the surface of the insulation layer and subsequent removal of the surface from the recesses before the contact stools are inserted
• a further possibility of applying the connecting material consists in introducing the connecting material into the recesses in stucco form, for example as lead / tin solder balls, before the contact stools are inserted
• the substrate used to manufacture the chip module can already be prepared to the extent that the contact stools are inserted into recesses which are already provided with a connection material in the area of the connecting conductors. This also makes it possible to use the method according to the invention for producing a chip module starting from substrates already prepared appropriately by the substrate manufacturer, which enables a particularly cost-effective implementation of the method
• connection between the connecting material and the contact stools or the connecting material and the connecting conductors takes place under the action of pressure and temperature, it is ensured that a connection is created between the chip and the substrate, in which the adjacent surfaces of the chip and the substrate are against one another Bearing, which results in an appropriate at least partial embedding of the contact humps the connecting material, even with a connecting material with a high interfacial tension, if the quantity of connecting material is dimensioned accordingly
• connection between the connecting material and the contact bumps can take place according to the "flip chip” method known per se, in which the chip with its contact stools is printed against the connecting material under the influence of temperature. Accordingly, the heating of the connecting material necessary for establishing the connection takes place during the placement
• connection can, however, also take place in such a way that the connection material is heated and the connection is made in the so-called “reflow process” only after the placement has taken place
• a functional test of the chip is carried out after the processing of the chip.
• the connecting conductors of the substrate form the test contacts. Carrying out this electrical test, usually a continuity test, enables the detection of a possibly due to the processing of the chip or the connection between Chip and substrate in the function impaired chip module
• FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a chip module with a chip and a substrate arranged thereon
• 2 is a side view of the chip module shown in FIG. 1 in an enlarged view
• Fig. 3 shows the chip module shown in Fig. 2 in an enlarged
• FIG. 4 shows a representation corresponding to the representation of FIG. 3 immediately before the connection of the chip to the substrate to form the chip module
• FIG. 5 shows a device for the continuous production of the in FIG.
• Fig. 6 shows a substrate tape with individual substrates in a section sdar division
• FIG. 1 shows a chip module 10 with a chip 11 and a substrate 12 contacted thereon.
• the substrate 12 has, on the upper side, facing away from the chip 11, of an insulation layer formed here as a carrier layer 13, connecting conductors 14, 15 which are shown in the embodiment shown here Example in twice the number and which are arranged essentially longitudinally over the carrier layer 13 and are arranged thereon
• the chip 11 has two elevated contact metallizations 16, 17 known in the specialist literature under the term “bump”, which have a passivation layer 18 (FIG. 3) of the chip 1 that is not shown in more detail in FIG. 1 1 penetrate and protrude from it
• FIG. 1 shows a chip 11 provided only with two contact metallizations 16, 17, as is used, for example, in a chip card (not shown in more detail here), it is emphasized that the subsequent embodiments also have chips with a different number of contact metallizations, in particular those with a large number of contact metallizations, in which case the substrate to be connected to such a chip in a corresponding manner is carried out with a larger number of connecting conductors.
• the chip 1 1 contacted on the substrate 12 has a regular thickness D, which essentially corresponds to the thickness of a wafer (not shown in more detail here) from which the chip 1 1 can be extracted from the
• the chip 38 after a material-removing processing of a surface opposite the contact metallizations 16, 17, hereinafter referred to as the rear side 39 ⁇ d reduced thickness, so that the thickness d of the chip 38 is significantly less than the thickness D of the chip 11 (FIG. 1)
• FIG. 2 shows the chip module 10 in an enlarged partial view
• FIG. 3 which shows the chip module 10 in an enlarged partial view
• the thickness reduction ⁇ d shown in FIG. 2 compared to the chip module 10 with the total thickness H.
• Chip module 37 with a much smaller total thickness h is possible
• connection metallization 17 illustrates, using the example of a connection point, the manner in which the connection of the contact metallization 17 is connected to the connecting conductor 15 of the substrate 12 for producing the chip module 10. It can be clearly seen how the contact metallization 17 starts from an overlap position engages with the associated recess 19 in the recess 19 formed in the carrier layer 13 in the area of the contact metallization 17.
• the recess 19 in the carrier layer 13 extends to the connecting conductor 15 arranged on the rear side of the carrier layer 13 facing the chip 11 and gives this one in the area of a rear chip contact area 21 arranged opposite an outer contact side 20
• a connecting material 22 which is used both for establishing an electrically conductive connection between the contact metallization 17 and the chip contact region 21 of the connecting conductor 15 and for establishing a mechanically secure connection between the chip 11 and the substrate 12
• the connecting material 22 shown in FIGS. 3 and 4 is a solder application applied to the chip contact area 21 of the connecting conductor 15 in a solid form.
• the solder composition selected for the solder application is matched to the alloy or material composition used for the contact metallization 17. If gold is used for the contact metallization 17, a lead / tin solder is suitable as the connecting material.
• an electrically conductive adhesive based on epoxy resin or also a thermoplastic adhesive can be used
• connection shown in FIG. 3 between the contact metallization 17 and the chip contact region 21 of the connecting conductor 15 is made by introducing (arrow 48 in FIG. 4) the contact metallization 17 based on an arrangement of the chip 1 1 above the substrate 12 (FIG.
• the support layer 13 of the substrate 12 on its upper side facing the chip can be provided with a groove-shaped vent which leads outwards from the recess 19.
• the chip module 10 can also have a coil arranged on the substrate to form a transponder be provided
• FIG. 5 shows a chip module production device 24 with two components combined in a stationary device, namely a chip placement device 25 and a heating device 26.
• the chip 11 with its contact metallizations 16, 17 directed downward is pressed against the substrate 12 arranged here in a substrate strip 27
• the contact metallizations 16, 17 are brought into contact with the connecting material 22 arranged in the recesses 19 on the chip contact area 21 (FIG. 3) of the connecting conductors 14, 15.
• the connecting material 22 As an alternative to the heating of the connecting material 22 described above during the placement of the chip 11, it is also possible to melt the connecting material 22 after the placement of the chips 11 in a reflow process and thereby to melt the connecting material 22 with the contact metallizations 16, 17 to bring about the necessary wetting of the contact metallizations, depending on the nature of the connecting material, it may be necessary to overcome the interfacial resistance of the connecting material 22 by means of an additional pressure device arranged downstream of the chip coating device 25 by pressure on the contact metallizations 16, 17, in order to sink the contact metallizations 16, 17 in the connecting material 22 to achieve the described embedding of the contact metallizations 16, 17 in the connecting material 22.
• FIG. 6 shows a top view of the substrate band 27 already mentioned in connection with the chip module production device 24 shown in FIG. 5.
• the substrate band 27 has a multiplicity of continuously successive substrates 12, which are formed across their substrates Connection conductors 14, 15 are connected to one another.
• the stamping process makes connecting areas 29 , 30 of the connecting conductors 14, 15 and perforations 31, which are designed as traction edges and are formed as outer edges 32, 33 of the substrate tape 27.
• Such a configuration of the substrate tape 27 enables continuous production of chip modules 10, whereby, as in FIG. 5 shown, the substrate tape 27 with the d arin provided substrates 12 in the feed direction 34 is clocked past the chip placement device 25
• the chip modules 10 produced in the chip module manufacturing device 24 each form an intermediate product or a handling unit for the subsequent processing of the chips 11 with the aim of producing chip modules 37 with chips 38 which are thinner than the chips 11
• the composite formed by the substrate tape, the chip modules 10 in their entirety form a corresponding handling association.
• material-removing processing is carried out, as shown in FIG. 5 using the example of a continuous manufacturing process the chips 1 1 of the chip modules 10, after their manufacture in the chip module manufacturing device 24.
• the chip modules 10 are fed to a processing device 40, in which the chip body material is removed from the rear side 39 of the chip 1 1, as is the case with shown schematically in Fig. 2 In the example shown in Fig.
• a belt grinding device 40 is used as the processing device, which has an endless grinding belt 43 which rotates continuously on a device carrier 41 via rollers 42.
• the device carrier 41 is provided with an infeed device, not shown here, which enables the device carrier 41 to move up and down in the direction of the double arrow 44 by superimposing the circumferential movement of the grinding belt 43 with one on the rear side 39 of the chip 1 1 directional feed movement, it is possible to continuously reduce the thickness of the chip 11 until a chip 38 with a thickness d reduced compared to the original chip 11 is obtained (FIG. 2).
• the thickness d achievable by means of this processing is limited by the boundary layer 45 indicated by a dash-dotted line in FIG. 2, which delimits a circuit area 46 of the chip lying between the passivation layer 18 and the boundary layer 45. Until the boundary layer 45 is reached, processing of the chip from the rear side 39 thereof is possible without penetration in the circuit area 46 to impair the function of the chip
• the result of the processing of the chip 11 with the belt grinding device 40 shown in FIG. 5 is the chip module 37 shown in FIG. 2, which has a substantially reduced total height h compared to the output chip module 10. 5 shown produced, reduced in thickness chip modules 37 can then be separated from the composite of the substrate tape 27 as described above with reference to FIG. 6

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