The present disclosure relates to an adhesive transfer film for bonding a semiconductor chip and a spacer to a substrate and a method for manufacturing a power module substrate by using same, the adhesive transfer film being obtained by manufacturing an Ag sintering paste in the form of a film. The present disclosure can reduce the process time by minimizing a sintering process, and can reduce equipment investment cost.

A chip arranging method for arranging a plurality of chips on a wafer includes a groove forming step of forming a plurality of intersecting grooves that mark off each of chip placement regions on the front surface side of the wafer, a liquid supplying step of supplying a liquid to the chip placement regions, a chip placing step of placing the chips on the liquid to position the chips in the chip placement regions by the surface tension of the liquid after carrying out the liquid supplying step, and a liquid removing step of removing the liquid to arrange the plurality of chips on the wafer after carrying out the chip placing step.

Disclosed herein are methods of fabricating a packaged radio-frequency (RF) device. The disclosed methods use a film during fabrication to control the distribution of an under-fill material between one or more components and a packaging substrate. The method includes mounting components to a first side of a packaging substrate and applying a film to a second side of a packaging substrate. The method also includes mounting a lower component to the second side of the packaging substrate and under-filling the lower component mounted on the second side of the packaging substrate with an under-filling agent. The method also includes removing the film on the second side of the packaging substrate and mounting solder balls to the second side of the packaging substrate after removal of the film.

A dicing die attach film containing a dicing film and a die attach film stacked on the dicing film, wherein the die attach film contains an organic solvent having a boiling point of 100° C. or more and less than 150° C. and a vapor pressure of 50 mmHg or less, and wherein an amount of the organic solvent in the die attach film satisfies the following (a):

(a) when 1.0 g of the die attach film is immersed in 10.0 mL of acetone at 4° C. for 24 hours, an amount of the organic solvent extracted into the acetone is 800 μg or less.

An apparatus includes a polymer base layer having a surface. A die that includes a fluid manipulation surface that is substantially coplanar with the surface of the polymer base layer. The die includes a control electrode to generate an electric field to perform microfluidic manipulation of fluid across the fluid manipulation surface of the die.

An apparatus includes a first component layer. The component layer includes a first semiconductor device. The apparatus further includes a first hydrophilic layer and a first hydrophobic layer. The first hydrophobic layer is positioned between the first component layer and the first hydrophilic layer. The apparatus further includes a first contact extending through the first hydrophobic layer and the first hydrophilic layer.

Described herein is a die-to-wafer bonding process that utilizes micro-transfer printing to transfer die from a source wafer onto an intermediate handle wafer. The resulting intermediate handle wafer structure can then be bonded die-down onto the target wafer, followed by removal of only the intermediate handle wafer, leaving the die in place bonded to the target wafer.

A method of manufacturing a multi-layer wafer is provided. Under bump metallization (UMB) pads are created on each of two heterogeneous wafers. A conductive means is applied above the UMB pads on at least one of the two heterogeneous wafers. The two heterogeneous wafers are low temperature bonded to adhere the UMB pads together via the conductive means. At least one stress compensating polymer layer may be applied to at least one of two heterogeneous wafers. The stress compensating polymer layer has a polymer composition of a molecular weight polymethylmethacrylate polymer at a level of 10-50% with added liquid multifunctional acrylates forming the remaining 50-90% of the polymer composition.

Described herein are methods of manufacturing dual-sided packaged electronic modules to control the distribution of an under-fill material between one or more components and a packaging substrate. The disclosed technologies include using a dam on a packaging substrate that is configured to prevent or limit the flow of a capillary under-fill material. This can prevent or limit the capillary under-fill material from flowing onto or contacting other components or elements on the packaging substrate, such as solder balls of a ball-grid array. Accordingly, the disclosed technologies control under-fill for dual-sided ball grid array packages using a dam on a packaging substrate.

A bonding apparatus and method includes: a stage configured to fix a first electric component; a pressing unit configured to press a conductive adhesive film and a second electric component onto the first electric component; a driver configured to control movement of the pressing unit along a direction; and a plurality of sensors at different positions on the stage and configured to sense a change in capacitance with the pressing unit, wherein the pressing unit includes a flat metal material in first regions facing the plurality of sensors.