The present invention provides a film-shaped firing material 1 including sinterable metal particles 10, and a binder component 20, in which a content of the sinterable metal particles 10 is in a range of 15% to 98% by mass, a content of the binder component 20 is in a range of 2% to 50% by mass, a tensile elasticity of the film-shaped firing material at 60 C. is in a range of 4.0 to 10.0 MPa, and a breaking elongation thereof at 60 C. is 500% or greater; and a film-shaped firing material with a support sheet including the film-shaped firing material 1 which contains sinterable metal particles and a binder component, and a support sheet 2 which is provided on at least one side of the film-shaped firing material, in which an adhesive force (a2) of the film-shaped firing material to the support sheet is smaller than an adhesive force (a1) of the film-shaped firing material to a semiconductor wafer, the adhesive force (a1) is 0.1 N/25 mm or greater, and the adhesive force (a2) is in a range of 0.1 N/25 mm to 0.5 N/25 mm.

Methods for manufacturing a display device are provided. The methods include providing a plurality of light-emitting units and a substrate. The methods also include transferring the light-emitting units to a transfer head. The methods further include attaching at least one of the plurality of light-emitting units on the transfer head to the substrate by a bonding process, wherein the transfer head and the substrate satisfy the following equation during the bonding process:

Q|.sub.T1.sup.T2A(T)dT.sub.T1.sup.T3E(T)dT|<0.01, wherein A(T) is the coefficient of thermal expansion of the transfer head, E(T) is the coefficient of thermal expansion of the substrate, T1 is room temperature, T2 is the temperature of the transfer head, and T3 is the temperature of the substrate.

Methods for manufacturing a display device are provided. The methods include providing a plurality of light-emitting units and a substrate. The methods also include transferring the light-emitting units to a transfer head. The methods further include attaching at least one of the plurality of light-emitting units on the transfer head to the substrate by a bonding process, wherein the transfer head and the substrate satisfy the following equation during the bonding process:

Q|.sub.T1.sup.T2A(T)dT.sub.T1.sup.T3E(T)dT|<0.01, wherein A(T) is the coefficient of thermal expansion of the transfer head, E(T) is the coefficient of thermal expansion of the substrate, T1 is room temperature, T2 is the temperature of the transfer head, and T3 is the temperature of the substrate.

An anisotropic conductive film configured to suppress flowing of conductive particles attributable to the flowing of an insulating resin layer at the time of anisotropic conductive connection, improve the conductive particle capturing properties, and reduce short circuits has a conductive particle dispersion layer including the conductive particles dispersed (or distributed) in the insulating resin layer. The insulating resin layer is a layer of a photo-polymerizable resin composition. The surface of the insulating resin layer in the vicinity of each of the conductive particles has an inclination or an undulation with respect to the tangent plane of the insulating resin layer in the center portion between the adjacent conductive particles.

An anisotropic conductive film configured to suppress flowing of conductive particles attributable to the flowing of an insulating resin layer at the time of anisotropic conductive connection, improve the conductive particle capturing properties, and reduce short circuits has a conductive particle dispersion layer including the conductive particles dispersed (or distributed) in the insulating resin layer. The insulating resin layer is a layer of a photo-polymerizable resin composition. The surface of the insulating resin layer in the vicinity of each of the conductive particles has an inclination or an undulation with respect to the tangent plane of the insulating resin layer in the center portion between the adjacent conductive particles.

A thermal bonding sheet includes a layer, in which hardness of the layer after being heated at a heating rate of 1.5 C./sec from 80 C. to 300 C. under pressure of 10 MPa, and then held at 300 C. for 2.5 minutes is in a range of 1.5 GPa to 10 GPa in measurement using a nanoindenter.

A conductive composition, which can form bonded portions and is capable of maintaining a thickness of the bonded portions and bonding strength, and which includes: (A) silver fine particles having a number average particle diameter of primary particles of 40 nm to 400 nm, (B) a solvent, and (C) thermoplastic resin particles having a maximal value of an endothermic peak in a DSC chart, determined by a measurement using a differential scanning calorimeter, within a range of 80 C. to 170 C.

A conductive composition, which can form bonded portions and is capable of maintaining a thickness of the bonded portions and bonding strength, and which includes: (A) silver fine particles having a number average particle diameter of primary particles of 40 nm to 400 nm, (B) a solvent, and (C) thermoplastic resin particles having a maximal value of an endothermic peak in a DSC chart, determined by a measurement using a differential scanning calorimeter, within a range of 80 C. to 170 C.

An adhesive composition, containing an epoxy resin (A), an epoxy resin curing agent (B), a polymer component (C) and an inorganic filler (D), in which the inorganic filler (D) satisfies the condition (1) of (an average particle diameter (d50) is 0.1 to 3.5 ?m) and condition (2) of (a ratio of a particle diameter at 90% cumulative distribution frequency (d90) to the average particle diameter (d50) is 5.0 or less), and a proportion of the inorganic filler (D) in a total content of the epoxy resin (A), the epoxy resin curing agent (B), the polymer component (C) and the inorganic filler (D) is 20 to 70% by volume; a film-like adhesive and a production method thereof; and a semiconductor package and a production method thereof.

An adhesive composition, containing an epoxy resin (A), an epoxy resin curing agent (B), a polymer component (C) and an inorganic filler (D), in which the inorganic filler (D) satisfies the condition (1) of (an average particle diameter (d50) is 0.1 to 3.5 ?m) and condition (2) of (a ratio of a particle diameter at 90% cumulative distribution frequency (d90) to the average particle diameter (d50) is 5.0 or less), and a proportion of the inorganic filler (D) in a total content of the epoxy resin (A), the epoxy resin curing agent (B), the polymer component (C) and the inorganic filler (D) is 20 to 70% by volume; a film-like adhesive and a production method thereof; and a semiconductor package and a production method thereof.