This film-shaped firing material is a film-shaped firing material containing sinterable metal particles and a binder component, in which, when the average thickness of the portion of the film-shaped firing material excluding the edge portion is deemed 100%, the average thickness of the edge portion of the film-shaped firing material is at least 5% thicker than the average thickness of the portion of the film-shaped firing material excluding the edge portion.

A method of processing a wafer having a plurality of devices formed in respective areas on a face side of the wafer, the areas being demarcated by a plurality of intersecting projected dicing lines, includes a low-viscosity resin applying step of coating the face side of the wafer with a first liquid resin of low viscosity to cover an area of the wafer where the plurality of devices are present, a high-viscosity resin applying step of, after the low-viscosity resin applying step, coating the face side of the wafer with a second liquid resin of higher viscosity than the first liquid resin in overlapping relation to the first liquid resin, a resin curing step of curing the first liquid resin and the second liquid resin that have coated the face side of the wafer into a protective film, and a planarizing step of planarizing the protective film.

A method of processing a wafer having a plurality of devices formed in respective areas on a face side of the wafer, the areas being demarcated by a plurality of intersecting projected dicing lines, includes a resin applying step of coating the face side of the wafer with a liquid resin to cover an area of the wafer where the plurality of devices are present, a resin curing step of curing the liquid resin into a protective film, a protective tape laying step of laying a protective tape on an upper surface of the protective film, and a planarizing step of planarizing a face side of the protective tape.

A method for transferring objects and a transfer apparatus using the same are provided. The method includes the following steps: controlling, during a first period, the ejector at an ejecting working position to perform an ejecting process along with a first direction, to transfer the object from the first substrate to the second substrate; controlling, during a second period, the ejector to move to an ejecting standby position along with a second direction which is non-parallel to the first direction, to expose at least one of the object on the first substrate to a detection range of an image capturing device; detecting the position of the object in the detection range to obtain calibration information; and adjusting the position of the first substrate according to the calibration information.

This disclosure teaches methods for making high-temperature superconducting striated tape combinations and the product high-temperature superconducting striated tape combinations. This disclosure describes an efficient and scalable method for aligning and bonding two superimposed high-temperature superconducting (HTS) filamentary tapes to form a single integrated tape structure. This invention aligns a bottom and top HTS tape with a thin intervening insulator layer with microscopic precision, and electrically connects the two sets of tape filaments with each other. The insulating layer also reinforces adhesion of the top and bottom tapes, mitigating mechanical stress at the electrical connections. The ability of this method to precisely align separate tapes to form a single tape structure makes it compatible with a reel-to-reel production process.

A die bonding method includes obtaining information about a quality grade of each die of a plurality of dies placed at a wafer, picking up a first die among the plurality of dies from the wafer, identifying a bonding location of a plurality of bonding locations from a substrate according to a quality grade of the first die, and bonding the first die to the bonding location of the substrate.

A curable silicone-(meth)acrylate pressure sensitive composition is curable via hydrosilylation reaction to form a silicone-(meth)acrylate pressure sensitive adhesive with an initial adhesion. When the silicone-(meth)acrylate pressure sensitive adhesive is exposed to actinic radiation, the resulting silicone-(meth)acrylate adhesive has a subsequent adhesion, which is higher than the initial adhesion.

A sheet for processing a wafer, including a substrate sheet that comes into contact with a main surface of the wafer, wherein the substrate sheet has an exponential coefficient in an exponential trendline for storage modulus E′.sub.30-80 at 30° C. to 80° C. of −0.035 to −0.070.

An object of the present invention is to provide a heat-resistant film that is suitable for protection of a surface provided with electrical conduction, decoration or the like in a plastic product, a glass product, a ceramic product, and the like, or that is suitable for holding a semiconductor, dies, and the like in producing dies through dicing and singulation. The film that solves the above object is a heat-resistant film comprising a thermoplastic resin, wherein (a) the thermoplastic resin is a polyester-based elastomer comprising a hard segment and a soft segment that are linked to each other, (b) the hard segment comprises a polyester unit constituted from an aromatic dicarboxylic acid and an aliphatic diol or an alicyclic diol, (c) the soft segment is constituted mainly from the prescribed polycarbonate, (d) a weight ratio of the hard segment contained in the polyester-based elastomer exceeds 50%, and (e) the film comprising the thermoplastic resin has an elastic modulus of 30 to 500 MPa, an elongation at break of 200 to 700%, and a ratio F50/F25 of 1.05 or more, the ratio F50/F25 being a ratio of a stress F50 at an elongation of 50% to a stress F25 at an elongation of 25%.

A method includes mounting a ceramic phosphor on an acrylic-free and metal-containing catalyst-free tacky layer of a dicing tape, dicing the ceramic phosphor from the dicing tape into ceramic phosphor plates, removing the ceramic phosphor plates from the dicing tape, and attaching the ceramic phosphor plates on light-emitting device (LED) dies.