A bonding member that includes a resin body defining an airtight interior, and a bonding material enclosed in the interior of the resin body. The bonding material is a mixed powder that includes a plurality of particles of a first metal powder and a plurality of particles of a second metal powder. The second metal powder reacts with the first metal powder when melted to thereby produce an intermetallic compound. The resin body has a melting point higher than a softening point of the mixed powder.

A semiconductor package and methods for producing the same are described. One example of the semiconductor package is described to include a substrate having a first face and an opposing second face. The package is further described to include a plurality of solderable surfaces formed on the first face of the substrate, a first solderable surface in the plurality of solderable surfaces having a pattern plating structure on an outward facing surface of the first solderable surface. There may also be an amount of solder bonded to the outward facing surface of the first solderable surface, where the pattern plating structure on the outward facing surface of the first solderable surface causes the amount of solder to have a first thickness at its ends, a second thickness at its center, and a discrete transition between the first thickness and the second thickness.

Provided are anisotropic conductive materials, electronic devices including anisotropic conductive materials, and/or methods of manufacturing the electronic devices. An anisotropic conductive material may include a plurality of particles in a matrix material layer. At least some of the particles may include a core portion and a shell portion covering the core portion. The core portion may include a conductive material that is in a liquid state at a temperature greater than 15 C. and less than or equal to about 110 C. or less. For example, the core portion may include at least one of a liquid metal, a low melting point solder, and a nanofiller. The shell portion may include an insulating material. A bonding portion formed by using the anisotropic conductive material may include the core portion outflowed from the particle and may further include an intermetallic compound.

A circuitized substrate which includes a conductive paste for providing electrical connections. The paste, in one embodiment, includes a metallic component including nano-particles and may include additional elements such as solder or other metal micro-particles, as well as a conducting polymer and organic. The particles of the paste composition sinter and, depending on what additional elements are added, melt as a result of lamination to thereby form effective contiguous circuit paths through the paste. A method of making such a substrate is also provided, as is an electrical assembly utilizing the substrate and including an electronic component such as a semiconductor chip coupled thereto.

There are provided an electrically conductive adhesive agent capable of providing good electrical continuity to a substrate to which a preflux treatment has been applied, and a method for connecting electronic components. The electrically conductive adhesive agent to be used includes a polymerizable acrylic compound, an organic peroxide, and the solder particles, the organic peroxide having a one minute half-life temperature lower than the solidus temperature of the solder particles. At the time of thermocompression bonding, the solder particles are crushed and an oxide film is removed, and a preflux layer on the surface of a bump is also removed by melting and flowing thereof, whereby electrical continuity is secured, and then an adhesive component is completely cured.

Disclosed is a component-mounted structure including a first object having a plurality of first electrodes, a second object as an electronic component having second electrodes, a joint portion joining the plurality of first electrodes and the corresponding second electrodes to each other, and a resin-reinforcing portion. The joint portion has a core including at least one of a first metal and a resin particle, and a layer of an intermetallic compound of the first metal and a second metal having a low melting point. The resin-reinforcing portion includes a particulate matter including the core and the intermetallic compound, in a portion except between the first and second electrodes. An amount of the particulate matter included in the portion is 0.1 to 10 vol %.

A bonding element includes a first transient liquid phase (TLP) bonding element including a first material and a second material, the first material having a higher melting point than the second material, a ratio of a quantity of the first material and the second material in the first TLP bonding element having a first value and a second TLP bonding element including the first material and the second material, a ratio of a quantity of the first material and the second material in the second TLP bonding element having a second value different from the first value.

Provided are anisotropic conductive materials, electronic devices including anisotropic conductive materials, and/or methods of manufacturing the electronic devices. An anisotropic conductive material may include a plurality of particles in a matrix material layer. At least some of the particles may include a core portion and a shell portion covering the core portion. The core portion may include a conductive material that is in a liquid state at a temperature greater than 15 C. and less than or equal to about 110 C. or less. For example, the core portion may include at least one of a liquid metal, a low melting point solder, and a nanofiller. The shell portion may include an insulating material. A bonding portion formed by using the anisotropic conductive material may include the core portion outflowed from the particle and may further include an intermetallic compound.

A conductor connecting structure includes a mounting board, a target board, and an anisotropic conductive material. The mounting board includes a base material that includes first and second surfaces. The mounting board also includes a conductor layer formed on the first or second surface and a first dummy conductor layer formed at a corner of the second surface. The target board includes a mounting surface, a conductor layer, and a second dummy conductor layer. The anisotropic conductive material includes a polymeric material and electrically conductive particles dispersed in the polymeric material. The electrically conductive particles, when heated, aggregate so as to connect an end portion of the conductor layer of the mounting board and the conductor layer of the target board to each other and connect the first and second dummy conductor layers to each other.

An electronic device has a printed substrate having land electrodes and a chip-type electronic component having external electrodes formed on a surface of a component element body. The land electrodes and the external electrodes are bonded via a solder to form electrode bonding parts. A thermosetting resin is filed between the electrode bonding parts. The bonding material contains solder particles having a melting point T1, a thermosetting resin having a curing temperature T2 that is higher than the melting point T1, and an activating agent having an activation temperature T3 that is lower than the curing temperature T2. The viscosity of the contained components except the solder particles at the melting point T1 is 0.57 Pa.Math.s or less, and the melting point T1 and the activation temperature T3 satisfy T1T3<50 C.