A bonding apparatus and a bonding method are provided. The bonding apparatus bonds a semiconductor die to a substrate by thermocompression through an adhesive material. This bonding apparatus is provided with: a bonding tool which has a bonding surface that holds the semiconductor die through a first portion of a tape, and a pair of first tape constraining surfaces that are arranged so as to sandwich the bonding surface and constrain a second portion of the tape: tape constraining mechanisms which have a second tape constraining surface that presses the tape against the first tape constraining surfaces; and a control part which controls the movements of the bonding tool and the tape constraining mechanisms.

A sintering press for sintering electronic components on a substrate includes at least one reaction element extending along an element axis parallel to a pressing axis of the sintering press between a first element end and a second element end, the first element end forming a support plane for a respective substrate, at least one load cell operatively connected to the second element end, and an element plate slidably supporting the at least one reaction element and equipped with a heating circuit. The reaction element has a heating portion passing through the element plate and transmitting by conduction heat of the element plate to the substrate. The reaction element has a cooling portion ending with the second element end and shaped to dissipate the heat transmitted from the element plate to the heating portion.

An industrial-scale system and method for handling precisely aligned and centered semiconductor substrate (e.g., wafer) pairs for substrate-to-substrate (e.g., wafer-to-wafer) aligning and bonding applications is provided. Some embodiments include an aligned substrate transport device having a frame member and a spacer assembly. The centered semiconductor substrate pairs may be positioned within a processing system using the aligned substrate transport device, optionally under robotic control. The centered semiconductor substrate pairs may be bonded together without the presence of the aligned substrate transport device in the bonding device. The bonding device may include a second spacer assembly which operates in concert with that of the aligned substrate transport device to perform a spacer hand-off between the substrates. A pin apparatus may be used to stake the substrates during the hand-off.

A laser compression bonding device and method for a semiconductor chip are proposed. The device includes a conveyor unit that transports a semiconductor chip and a substrate, and a bonding head that includes a bonding tool for applying a pressure to the chip and substrate, a laser beam generator for emitting a laser beam, a thermal imaging camera for measuring temperatures of the surfaces of semiconductor chip and substrate, and a compression unit for controlling a pressure applied by the bonding tool and a position thereof, wherein the compression unit includes a mount on which the bonding tool is detachably mounted, and a servo motor and a load cell that apply a pressure to the mount or control a position thereof. The servo motor is controlled with two values for pressure application and positioning.

Disclosed is a method for constructing a micro-LED display module. The method includes: retaining micro-LED chips in a matrix on a chip retaining member; picking up the micro-LED chips on the chip retaining member and transferring the picked up micro-LED chips to a planar carrier member; pressing the micro-LED chips on the planar carrier member against a mount substrate; and heating solders disposed on the mount substrate above the melting point of the solders simultaneously with the pressing of the micro-LED chips against the mount substrate to bond the micro-LED chips to the mount substrate. The mount substrate is sucked by a suction chuck during heating of the solders.

A sintering press for sintering electronic components on a substrate is provided. The sintering press includes a pressing unit having a plurality of controllable presser rods to apply sintering pressure to the electronic components to be sintered, reaction elements forming a support plane for a respective substrate, an element plate slidably supporting the reaction elements, and a heating circuit with heating elements embedded in a heating body placed around the element plate to bring the element plate to a sintering temperature. A heat diffusion plate is placed in contact with the heating body and extends onto the element plate between the reaction elements, the diffusion plate being made of a material having a higher thermal conductivity than the element plate.

An apparatus for aligning dipoles is provided. The apparatus includes: an electric field forming unit including a stage and a probe unit, the probe unit being configured to form an electric field on the stage; an inkjet printing device including an inkjet head, the inkjet head being configured to spray ink including a solvent and dipoles dispersed in the solvent onto the stage; a light irradiation device configured to irradiate light onto the stage; and a temperature control device including a temperature control unit, the temperature control unit being configured to control a temperature of the solvent sprayed on the stage.

An apparatus includes a transfer mechanism to transfer an electrically-actuatable element directly from a wafer tape to a transfer location on a circuit trace on a product substrate. The transfer mechanism includes one or more transfer wires. Two or more stabilizers disposed on either side of the one or more transfer wires. A needle actuator is connected to the one or more transfer wires and the two or more stabilizers to move the one or more transfer wires and the two or more stabilizers to a die transfer position.

Embodiments of the present disclosure include method for sequentially mounting multiple semiconductor devices onto a substrate having a composite metal structure on both the semiconductor devices and the substrate for improved process tolerance and reduced device distances without thermal interference. The mounting process causes “selective” intermixing between the metal layers on the devices and the substrate and increases the melting point of the resulting alloy materials.

An integrated circuit package substrate (ICPS) system includes a die including a first array of connectors and a substrate including a second array of connectors that is configured to be thermocompression bonded to the first array of connectors at a bonding temperature that is above a solder melting temperature. The first die is bonded to the substrate such that the first die is asymmetric with respect to a substrate center, and the second array of connectors is adjusted, at an alignment temperature that is below the solder melting temperature, for thermal expansion to the bonding temperature with respect to a reference point that is not a first die center.