A press fitting head comprising an elastic member in a part where the press fitting head contacts a semiconductor device, and an alignment mark recognition area capable of detecting an optically readable marker provided on a surface to be contacted to the semiconductor device is provided. Additionally, a semiconductor manufacturing apparatus in which the press fitting head is applied is provided.

A press fitting head comprising an elastic member in a part where the press fitting head contacts a semiconductor device, and an alignment mark recognition area capable of detecting an optically readable marker provided on a surface to be contacted to the semiconductor device is provided. Additionally, a semiconductor manufacturing apparatus in which the press fitting head is applied is provided.

A bonding head and a die bonding apparatus having the same are disclosed. The bonding head includes a body connected to a driving section for transferring the die, a plate heater mounted to a lower surface of the body and a collet mounted to a lower surface of the plate heater and configured to hold the die using a vacuum pressure. A cooling channel is formed at the lower surface of the body, and cooling passages are formed through the body and connected with the cooling channel to supply a cooling fluid into the cooling channel and to recover the cooling fluid from the cooling channel thereby cooling the plate heater.

A bonding head and a die bonding apparatus having the same are disclosed. The bonding head includes a body connected to a driving section for transferring the die, a plate heater mounted to a lower surface of the body and a collet mounted to a lower surface of the plate heater and configured to hold the die using a vacuum pressure. A cooling channel is formed at the lower surface of the body, and cooling passages are formed through the body and connected with the cooling channel to supply a cooling fluid into the cooling channel and to recover the cooling fluid from the cooling channel thereby cooling the plate heater.

An active substrate includes a plurality of active components distributed over a surface of a destination substrate, each active component including a component substrate different from the destination substrate, and each active component having a circuit and connection posts on a process side of the component substrate. The connection posts may have a height that is greater than a base width thereof, and may be in electrical contact with the circuit and destination substrate contacts. The connection posts may extend through the surface of the destination substrate contacts into the destination substrate connection pads to electrically connect the connection posts to the destination substrate contacts.

Provided is transferring members having a plate-like shape used in baking a metal particle paste of an assembled body formed by arranging an electronic part on a substrate with the metal particle paste interposed therebetween by applying pressure to the assembled body and by heating the assembled body, the transferring members being configured to sandwich the assembled body in baking the metal particle paste, wherein the transferring members are made of a material having thermal conductivity which falls within a range of from 1 to 200 W/(m k) and Vickers hardness which falls within a range of from 180 to 2300 kgf/mm.sup.2.

With such a configuration, it is possible to provide a transferring member for being used in a method of manufacturing a bonded body which can suppress the lowering of bonding property between a substrate and an electronic part and which can prevent the remarkable lowering of productivity of a bonded body.

Bonding system that bonds each of a plurality of second articles to a first article, wherein each of the plurality of second articles is a chip comprising an uneven portion on a circumference closer to a bonding surface to be bonded to the first article, the bonding system comprises: a device for supplying a second article that supplies the plurality of second articles; a bond device that bonds the plurality of second articles to the first article by bringing the plurality of second articles into contact with the first article; and a device for transporting a second article that transports, to the bond device, at least one of the plurality of second articles supplied from the device for supplying a second article, and the device for transporting a second article comprises a holder for holding a second article that holds the uneven portion of the at least one second article.

A bond head assembly for bonding a semiconductor element to a substrate is provided. The bond head assembly includes a base structure, a heater, and a clamping system securing the heater to the base structure. The clamping system includes a plurality of elastic elements constraining the heater along a plurality of axes.

A transfer head array includes a body and a plurality of transfer heads. The body has a first surface, a second surface opposite to the first surface, and a plurality of recesses. The first surface has at least one chucking region and at least one interference avoidance region, and the recesses are separated from each other and are disposed in the interference avoidance region. The transfer heads are disposed on the chucking region.

Embodiments of a thermal compression bonding process bond head and a method for producing a thermal compression bonding process bond head are disclosed. In some embodiments, the bond head includes a thermal compression bonding process heater and a cooling block coupled to the heater through an annular structure. The annular structure surrounds a lower portion of the cooling block and couples the cooling block to the heater such that there is no direct mechanical contact between the cooling block and the heater.