A method for manufacturing metal powder comprising: providing a basic metal salt solution; contacting the basic metal salt solution with a reducing agent to precipitate metal powder therefrom; and recovering precipitated metal powder from the solvent.

A multilayer composite bonding material for transient liquid phase bonding a semiconductor device to a metal substrate includes thermal stress compensation layers sandwiched between a pair of bonding layers. The thermal stress compensation layers may include a core layer with a first stiffness sandwiched between a pair of outer layers with a second stiffness that is different than the first stiffness such that a graded stiffness extends across a thickness of the thermal stress compensation layers. The thermal stress compensation layers have a melting point above a sintering temperature and the bonding layers have a melting point below the sintering temperature. The graded stiffness across the thickness of the thermal stress compensation layers compensates for thermal contraction mismatch between the semiconductor device and the metal substrate during cooling from the sintering temperature to ambient temperature.

An embedded-bridge substrate connector apparatus includes a patterned reference layer to which a first module and a subsequent module are aligned and the two modules are mated at the patterned reference layer. At least one module includes a silicon bridge connector that bridges to two devices, through the patterned reference layer, to the mated module.

A connection structure including: a first circuit member having a plurality of first electrodes; a second circuit member having a plurality of second electrodes; and an intermediate layer having a plurality of bonding portions electrically connecting the first electrodes and the second electrodes, in which at least one of the first electrode and the second electrode that are connected by the bonding portion is a gold electrode, and 90% or more of the plurality of bonding portions include a first region containing a tin-gold alloy and connecting the first electrode and the second electrode and a second region containing bismuth and being in contact with the first region.

Implementations of a sintering film frame may include a frame including an outer perimeter and an inner perimeter, the inner perimeter defining an opening through the frame; a position detection opening through the frame; at least two alignment holes through the frame; and a frame identifier on a side of the frame.

The present invention has an object to achieve bonding which satisfies both in heat resistivity and in stress-relaxation ability, and the bonding material according to this invention is a sheet-like bonding material 1 made of a silver-bismuth alloy which, when heated in a state being in contact with a metal material as a bonding target (for example, surface layers 2f, 3f), forms in the metal material (as its material, for example, gold, silver or copper) a diffusion layer Ld2, Ld3 of silver due to solid-phase diffusion reaction, so as to be bonded to the metal material, said bonding material being characterized by containing not less than 1 mass % but not more than 5 mass % of bismuth.

To reduce substrate warp occurring after connection an anisotropic conductive film is used. An anisotropic conductive film has: a first insulating adhesive layer; a second insulating adhesive layer; and a conductive particle-containing layer sandwiched by the first insulating adhesive layer and the second insulating adhesive layer and having conductive particles contained in an insulating adhesive, wherein air bubbles are contained between the conductive particle-containing layer and the first insulating adhesive layer, and, the conductive particle-containing layer, a portion thereof below the conductive particles and in contact with the second insulating adhesive layer has a lower degree of cure than other portions thereof.

An integrated device package that includes a die, a substrate, a fill and a conductive interconnect. The die includes a pillar, where the pillar has a first pillar width. The substrate (e.g., package substrate, interposer) includes a dielectric layer and a substrate interconnect (e.g., surface interconnect, embedded interconnect). The fill is located between the die and the substrate. The conductive interconnect is located within the fill. The conductive interconnect includes a first interconnect width that is about the same or less than the first pillar width. The conductive interconnect is coupled to the pillar and the substrate interconnect. The fill is a non-conductive photosensitive material. The fill is a photosensitive film. The substrate interconnect includes a second interconnect width that is equal or greater than the first pillar width. The conductive interconnect includes one of at least a paste, a solder and/or an enhanced solder comprising a polymeric material.

To reduce substrate warp occurring after connection an anisotropic conductive film is used. An anisotropic conductive film has: a first insulating adhesive layer; a second insulating adhesive layer; and a conductive particle-containing layer sandwiched by the first insulating adhesive layer and the second insulating adhesive layer and having conductive particles contained in an insulating adhesive, wherein air bubbles are contained between the conductive particle-containing layer and the first insulating adhesive layer, and, the conductive particle-containing layer, a portion thereof below the conductive particles and in contact with the second insulating adhesive layer has a lower degree of cure than other portions thereof.

An anisotropic conductive film whereby electrically conductive particles can be sufficiently captured at each connection terminal while suppressing the occurrence of shorts and conduction reliability can be improved even in cases where connecting finely pitched connection terminals. The anisotropic conductive film has a structure in which electrically conductive particle units in which electrically conductive particles are arranged in a row, or electrically conductive particle units in which electrically conductive particles are arranged in a row and independent electrically conductive particles are disposed in a lattice form in an electrically insulating adhesive layer. The shortest distance La between electrically conductive particles selected from adjacent electrically conductive particle units and the independent electrically conductive particles is not less than 0.5 times the particle diameter of the electrically conductive particles.