A method for the production of a silver sintering agent in the form of a layer-shaped silver sintering body having silver oxide surfaces and the use thereof are provided.

A manufacturing method includes the step of laminating a sheet assembly onto chips arranged on a processing tape, where the sheet assembly has a multilayer structure including a base and a sinter-bonding sheet and is laminated so that the sinter-bonding sheet faces the chips, and subsequently removing the base B from the sinter-bonding sheet. The chips on the processing tape are picked up each with a portion of the sinter-bonding sheet adhering to the chip, to give sinter-bonding material layer-associated chips. The sinter-bonding material layer-associated chips are temporarily secured through the sinter-bonding material layer to a substrate. The sinter-bonding material layers lying between the temporarily secured chips and the substrate are converted through a heating process into sintered layers, to bond the chips to the substrate. The semiconductor device manufacturing method is suitable for efficiently supplying a sinter-bonding material to semiconductor chips while reducing loses of the sinter-bonding material.

The present invention provides an anisotropic electrically conductive film with a structure, in which electrically conductive particles are disposed at lattice points of a planar lattice pattern in an electrically insulating adhesive base layer. A proportion of the lattice points, at which no electrically conductive particle is disposed, with respect to all the lattice points of the planar lattice pattern assumed as a reference region, is less than 20%. A proportion of the lattice points, at which plural electrically conductive particles are disposed in an aggregated state, with respect to all the lattice points of the planar lattice pattern, is not greater than 15%. A sum of omission of the electrically conductive particle and an aggregation of the electrically conductive particles is less than 25%.

A microelectronic assembly including an insulating layer having a plurality of nanoscale conductors disposed in a nanoscale pitch array therein and a pair of microelectronic elements is provided. The nanoscale conductors can form electrical interconnections between contacts of the microelectronic elements while the insulating layer can mechanically couple the microelectronic elements together.

The present invention relates to a dicing film including: a substrate film; and a cohesive layer, wherein a storage modulus of the cohesive layer at 30° C. is 3*10.sup.5 to 4*10.sup.6 Pa, and the cohesive layer has a degree of cross-linking of 80% to 99%, a dicing die-bonding film including the dicing film, and a dicing method of a semiconductor wafer using the dicing die-bonding film.

The present invention provides a method for producing a semiconductor device, including: a semiconductor chip-mounting step of subsequently pressing a plurality of semiconductor chips by a first pressing member to respectively bond the plurality of semiconductor chips to a plurality of mounting areas provided on a substrate, wherein the bonding is performed in a state where adhesive sheets are respectively interposed between the plurality of semiconductor chips and the plurality of mounting areas, each of the adhesive sheets includes sinterable metal particles that can be sintered by heating at a temperature of 400° C. or less, and the first pressing member is heated to a temperature, at which the sinterable metal particles can be sintered.

The present invention provides a method for producing a semiconductor device, including: a semiconductor chip-mounting step of subsequently pressing a plurality of semiconductor chips by a first pressing member to respectively bond the plurality of semiconductor chips to a plurality of mounting areas provided on a substrate, wherein the bonding is performed in a state where adhesive sheets are respectively interposed between the plurality of semiconductor chips and the plurality of mounting areas, each of the adhesive sheets includes sinterable metal particles that can be sintered by heating at a temperature of 400° C. or less, and the first pressing member is heated to a temperature, at which the sinterable metal particles can be sintered.

A method of producing an anisotropic conductive film having a three-layer structure including a first connection layer, a second connection layer, and a third connection layer. The connection layers are each formed mainly of an insulating resin. The first connection layer is held between the second connection layer and the third connection layer.

The sinter-bonding composition contains sinterable particles containing an electroconductive metal. The average particle diameter of the sinterable particles is 2 μm or less and the proportion of the particles having a particle diameter of 100 nm or less in the sinterable particles is not less than 80% by mass. The sinter-bonding sheet (10) has an adhesive layer made from such a sinter-bonding composition. The dicing tape with a sinter-bonding sheet (X) has such a sinter-bonding sheet (10) and a dicing tape (20). The dicing tape (20) has a lamination structure containing a base material (21) and an adhesive layer (22), and the sinter-bonding sheet (10) is positioned on the adhesive layer (22) of the dicing tape (20).

The sinter-bonding composition contains sinterable particles containing an electroconductive metal. The average particle diameter of the sinterable particles is 2 μm or less and the proportion of the particles having a particle diameter of 100 nm or less in the sinterable particles is not less than 80% by mass. The sinter-bonding sheet (10) has an adhesive layer made from such a sinter-bonding composition. The dicing tape with a sinter-bonding sheet (X) has such a sinter-bonding sheet (10) and a dicing tape (20). The dicing tape (20) has a lamination structure containing a base material (21) and an adhesive layer (22), and the sinter-bonding sheet (10) is positioned on the adhesive layer (22) of the dicing tape (20).