The present invention is a resin composition including: (A) an epoxy resin; (B) an epoxy compound shown by the following formula (1) and/or formula (2); (C) an epoxy compound shown by the following formula (3); (D) a phenolic curing agent; and (E) a curing accelerator, ##STR00001##
wherein A represents a single bond or a divalent organic group selected from the following formulae. ##STR00002## This provides a resin composition with improved strength, reduced warpage, and excellent adhesion, a resin film with improved strength formed from the composition, a semiconductor laminate containing the cured material of the resin film and a method for manufacturing the same, as well as a semiconductor device into which the semiconductor laminate is diced and a method for manufacturing the same.

A resin composition including the following (A) to (D): (A) a resin containing epoxy groups in the range of 140 to 5000 g/eq as an epoxy equivalent; (B) a phenolic curing agent; (C) a curing accelerator; and (D) at least one compound selected among what is expressed by the following formulae (0-1) to (0-5). This provides a resin composition having small warpage and excellent adhesive force, a high adhesion resin composition film made into a film form from the composition, a semiconductor laminate having a cured product of the film and its production method, a semiconductor device obtained by dicing the semiconductor laminate into individual chips and its production method.

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A packaging material is provided. The packaging material includes (a) epoxy silsesquioxane, (b) epoxy resin, and (c) siloxane-imide-containing benzoxazine compound. (a) Epoxy silsesquioxane and (b) epoxy resin have a weight ratio of 0.3:1 to 10:1. The total weight of (a) epoxy silsesquioxane and (b) epoxy resin and the weight of (c) siloxane-imide-containing benzoxazine compound have a ratio of 100:20 to 100:150.

The present invention relates to an alkoxysilylated epoxy compound, a composite exhibiting good heat resistance properties, low CTE and high glass transition temperature and not requiring a coupling agent, a composition including the same, a cured product formed of the composition, a use of the cured product, and a method of preparing the epoxy compound having alkoxysilyl group. An epoxy compound having an epoxy group and an alkoxysilyl group, a composition including the epoxy compound, a curing agent, a filler and/or a reaction catalyst, a cured product of the composition, and a use of the composition including an electronic part are provided. In a composite and/or cured product, the epoxy composition exhibits improved heat resistance properties, decreased CTE, and increased glass transition temperature or Tg-less. The cured product exhibits good flame retardant properties by the introduction of the alkoxysilyl group.

The invention provides a silicone-modified epoxy resin composition comprising a silicone-modified epoxy resin having at least two epoxy groups, obtained from hydrosilylation reaction of an alkenyl-containing epoxy compound with an organopolysiloxane, a silicone-modified phenolic resin having at least two phenolic hydroxyl groups, obtained from hydrosilylation reaction of an alkenyl-containing phenol compound with an organopolysiloxane, black pigment, and an inorganic filler. Because of excellent tracking resistance, the epoxy resin composition is suited for encapsulating semiconductor devices.

An adhesive composition comprising a silane-modified epoxy resin, a dicyclopentadiene novolac epoxy resin and a curing agent. The composition shows good oily steel bonding, even in the absence of CTBN rubber or rubber adducts as toughening agents, with good Tg values of the cured resin and good Tg retention after hot wet aging.

Thermally reworkable epoxy resins prepared through a Diels-Alder reaction are described herein. A maleimide component is reacted with an electron donating component having a furan ring attached to an epoxy ether to produce the epoxy resins. The epoxy component generated by this method can be cured with different diamines lo form a robust network of epoxy material. The robust epoxy material is used as a reversible thermoset and as an adhesive. The robust epoxy network is heated at 90 C. temperature in a retro Diels-Alder fashion to produce colorless starting materials of the maleimide component and the furan component.

Provided are an epoxy resin composition that can achieve a sufficiently low viscosity without using a diluent (an organic solvent), and a method for producing the same. Also provided are an epoxy resin composition that can preferably achieve, when cured, good electrical characteristics (particularly low dielectric constant and low dielectric loss tangent), high adhesion strength to metal, and good water absorption characteristics; and a method for producing the same.

The present invention relates to a novel epoxy compound, a method for preparing same, a composition and cured product comprising same, and use thereof, wherein the compound shows excellent heat-resistant propertiesspecifically, a low thermal expansion property and a high glass transition temperature (including Tg-less which does not show a glass transition temperature), a flame retardant property and processabilityspecifically, a viscosity-control property, does not require a separate silane coupling agent, and has improved brittleness in a composite. According to one aspect of the present invention, provided are: an epoxy compound having at least one non-reactive silyl group, alkenyl group or combination thereof together with at least two epoxy groups and at least one alkoxysilyl group; a method for preparing the epoxy compound through alkoxysilylation and alkylsilylation; an epoxy composition comprising same; and a cured product.

An object of the present invention is to provide a polyorganosilsesquioxane that can form a hard coat layer having high surface hardness through in-mold injection molding and can form a tack-free coating film, and thus is suitable as a material for a hard coat layer of a transfer film that can be wound as a roll. The present invention relates to a polyorganosilsesquioxane having a constituent unit represented by Formula (1) below; wherein a molar ratio of a constituent unit represented by Formula (I) below to a constituent unit represented by Formula (II) below, namely [(constituent unit represented by Formula (I))/(constituent units represented by Formula (II))], is from 20 to 500; a ratio of constituent units represented by Formula (1) below and constituent units represented by Formula (4) below relative to a total amount (100 mol %) of siloxane constituent units is from 55 to 100 mol %; a number average molecular weight is from 2500 to 50000; and a molecular weight dispersity (weight average molecular weight/number average molecular weight) is from 1.0 to 4.0; and a curable composition including the polyorganosilsesquioxane.