A method for producing a stable sandwich arrangement of two components with solder situated therebetween, comprising the steps:

(1) providing two components, each having at least one contact surface, and a free solder preform,
(2) producing a sandwich arrangement of the components and a solder preform arranged between them and thus not yet connected to them by bringing into contact (i) each one of the contact surfaces, (ii) each of the single contact surface of the components or (iii) one of the contact surfaces of one component and a single contact surface of the other component, with the contact surfaces of the free solder preform, and
(3) hot-pressing the sandwich arrangement produced in step (2) so as to form the stable sandwich arrangement at a temperature being at 10 to 40% below the melting temperature of the solder metal of the solder preform, expressed in ° C.

A copper paste for pressureless bonding is a copper paste for pressureless bonding, containing: metal particles; and a dispersion medium, in which the metal particles include sub-micro copper particles having a volume average particle diameter of greater than or equal to 0.01 μm and less than or equal to 0.8 μm, and micro copper particles having a volume average particle diameter of greater than or equal to 2.0 μm and less than or equal to 50 μm, and the dispersion medium contains a solvent having a boiling point of higher than or equal to 300° C., and a content of the solvent having a boiling point of higher than or equal to 300° C. is greater than or equal to 2 mass % on the basis of a total mass of the copper paste for pressureless bonding.

A copper paste for pressureless bonding is a copper paste for pressureless bonding, containing: metal particles; and a dispersion medium, in which the metal particles include sub-micro copper particles having a volume average particle diameter of greater than or equal to 0.01 μm and less than or equal to 0.8 μm, and micro copper particles having a volume average particle diameter of greater than or equal to 2.0 μm and less than or equal to 50 μm, and the dispersion medium contains a solvent having a boiling point of higher than or equal to 300° C., and a content of the solvent having a boiling point of higher than or equal to 300° C. is greater than or equal to 2 mass % on the basis of a total mass of the copper paste for pressureless bonding.

A method of making a semiconductor including soldering a conductor to an aluminum metallization is disclosed. In one example, the method includes substituting an aluminum oxide layer on the aluminum metallization by a substitute metal oxide layer or a substitute metal alloy oxide layer. Then, substitute metal oxides in the substitute metal oxide layer or the substitute metal alloy oxide layer are at least partly reduced. The conductor is soldered to the aluminum metallization using a solder material.

A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor die with a metallization layer including a first metal with a comparatively high melting point, a die carrier including a second metal with a comparatively high melting point, a first intermetallic compound arranged between the semiconductor die and the die carrier and including the first metal and a third metal with a comparatively low melting point, a second intermetallic compound arranged between the first intermetallic compound and the die carrier and including the second metal and the third metal, and precipitates of a third intermetallic compound arranged between the first intermetallic compound and the second intermetallic compound and including the third metal and a fourth metal with a comparatively high melting point.

An LED unit, an LED display and a manufacturing method. The LED unit could include a light emitting body and a weighing element. The weighing element could be arranged on the light emitting body, such that when the LED unit is in assembly fluid, the LED unit could move in a predefined posture and along a predefined direction driven by the weighing element. With the above-mentioned implementation, the present disclosure could facilitate the mass transfer of LED units and enhance production efficiency.

A method of joining a semiconductor die to a substrate includes: applying a solder preform to a metal region of the semiconductor die or to a metal region of the substrate, the solder preform having a maximum thickness of 30 μm and a lower melting point than both metal regions; forming a soldered joint between the metal region of the semiconductor die and the metal region of the substrate via a diffusion soldering process and without applying pressure directly to the die; and setting a soldering temperature of the diffusion soldering process so that the solder preform melts and fully reacts with the metal region of the semiconductor die and the metal region of the substrate to form one or more intermetallic phases throughout the entire soldered joint, each intermetallic phase having a melting point above the melting point of the preform and the soldering temperature.

A method of batch soldering includes: forming a soldered joint between a metal region of a first semiconductor die and a metal region of a substrate using a solder preform via a soldering process which does not apply pressure directly to the first semiconductor die, the solder preform having a maximum thickness of 30 μm and a lower melting point than the metal regions; setting a soldering temperature of the soldering process so that the solder preform melts and fully reacts with the metal region of the first semiconductor die and the metal region of the substrate to form one or more intermetallic phases throughout the entire soldered joint, each intermetallic phase having a melting point above the preform melting point and the soldering temperature; and soldering a second semiconductor die to the same or different metal region of the substrate, without applying pressure directly to the second semiconductor die.

There are provided a thermosetting resin composition for semiconductor bonding and a thermosetting resin composition for light emitting device which have high thermal conductivity and an excellent heat dissipation property and are capable of reliable pressure-free bonding of a semiconductor element and a light emitting element to a substrate. A thermosetting resin composition comprising: (A) silver fine particles ranging from 1 nm to 200 nm in thickness or in minor axis; (B) a silver powder having an average particle size of more than 0.2 m and 30 m or less; (C) resin particles; and (D) a thermosetting resin, wherein an amount of the resin particles (C) is 0.01 to 1 part by mass and an amount of the thermosetting resin (D) is 1 to 20 parts by mass, to 100 parts by mass being a total amount of the silver fine particles (A) and the silver powder (B).

A semiconductor device includes an N-type semiconductor substrate comprising silicon, an N-type low-concentration impurity layer that is in contact with the upper surface of the N-type semiconductor substrate, a metal layer that is in contact with the entire lower surface of the N-type semiconductor substrate and has a thickness of at least 20 m, and first and second vertical MOS transistors formed in the low-concentration impurity layer. The ratio of the thickness of the metal layer to the thickness of a semiconductor layer containing the N-type semiconductor substrate and the low-concentration impurity layer is greater than 0.27. The semiconductor device further includes a support comprising a ceramic material and bonded to the entire lower surface of the metal layer only via a bonding layer.