US20080122057A1 - Silicon carrier having increased flexibility - Google Patents
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- the present invention relates generally to packaging technology for electronic components, and more particularly relates to the field of silicon based carriers for microprocessors.
- Silicon based packages are known to have significant potential affect upon packaging technology. As explained in Development of Next-Generation System-On-Package (SOP) technology Based on Silicon Carriers with Fine-Pitch Chip Interconnection, Knickerbocker et al., IBM J. Res. & Dev. Vol. 49, No.
- SOP Next-Generation System-On-Package
- some useful features of silicon based packages include: dense wiring using back-end-of-line (BEOL) processing; increased chip package interface reliability; the use of interconnections like advanced solder microbumps or permanent copper interconnections; the ability to embed active devices into the carrier itself; and for carriers having through-vias the support of heterogeneous semiconductor technologies, passive or active circuits and high-density I/O wiring interconnections with electro-optic technology, as well as the support of three-dimensional circuit integration.
- BEOL back-end-of-line
- a silicon based package is comprised of various components including, chips, carriers having various bumps and underfills, and substrates, all of which may be made of the same or different materials and have different thermal and mechanical stresses placed upon them.
- any of several sources may be relied upon, including G. W. Doerre and D. E. Lackey, “The IBM ASIC/SoC Methodology—A Recipe for First-Time Success,” IBM J. Res. & Dev. 46, 649 (2002), and D. J. Bodendorf, K. T. Olson, J. P. Trinko, and J. R. Winnard, “Active Silicon Chip Carrier,” IBM Tech. Disclosure Bull. 7, 656 (1972).
- the useable size of a chip can be limited by the thermal mismatch between a silicon chip and substrate. If a chip is too large, the stresses at the largest distances from the thermal neutral point on the underfill, solder balls, and chip can exceed the material strengths and cause failures and/or package warpage such that the useable limits for attachment or cooling solutions are exceeded.
- silicon carriers where multiple chips are attached to a silicon carrier interposer which is added between the chips and package or circuit board.
- a silicon carrier can be made thinner to increase its flexibility; however, this limits the robustness of the carrier relative to the forces placed on it during bonding and thermal cycling due to the bumps above and below the carrier which exert loads on the carrier.
- an apparatus providing reduced thermal-mechanical stresses to a silicon carrier through the creation of localized regions in which the silicon carrier is thinned.
- an apparatus providing reduced thermal-mechanical stresses to an electronic device comprising a plurality of chips electrically connectable to a silicon chip carrier having thinned regions between adjacent chips, wherein the silicon chip carrier includes bumps and underfill.
- the thickness of said silicon carrier is reduced locally, for example in the parts of the carrier where chips are not attached, to introduce greater flexibility where the loads due to bumps are not present.
- the silicon carrier can be of varied thickness and, thus, rigid where bumps are located and flexible in other locations where bumps are not present.
- one aspect of the invention provides a chip carrying apparatus for use in electronic devices, said apparatus comprising: a plurality of chips; a chip carrier including interconnection regions allowing electrical interconnections between chips and chip carrier, wherein said localized areas of said chip carrier are thinned; and a substrate.
- FIG. 1 schematically illustrates a silicon carrier in accordance with at least one embodiment of the present invention, including a locally thinned region of the silicon carrier.
- FIG. 2 schematically illustrates the thermal mismatch induced bending and shear stress for the right side of the structure illustrated in FIG. 1 .
- FIG. 3 schematically illustrates the thermal mismatch induced bending and shear stress for the right side of a structure equivalent to that as shown in FIG. 1 except that no region of the silicon carrier is thinned.
- FIG. 1 a silicon-carrier-based package 100 is shown in accordance with a presently preferred embodiment of the invention.
- the silicon-based package 100 includes: chips 110 ; a silicon carrier 120 ; bumps and underfill 130 associated with the top and bottom of the silicon carrier 120 ; substrate 140 ; and a localized thinned region 150 of the silicon carrier 120 .
- the substrate 140 is 1 mm thick Al 2 O 3
- the silicon carrier is 200 ⁇ m thick
- the chips are 720 ⁇ m thick and 5 mm wide. While the presently preferred dimensions are set forth in the preceding sentence, any appropriate thickness may be used.
- wafer thickness standard is about 700 um
- the silicon carrier thickness is likely to be 25 um to 300 um
- the present invention may not be especially useful if the silicon carrier thickness is below about 20 um as the structure is then very flexible anyway. In any event, it is unlikely the thinness can go below 5 um-10 um as this is about what the wiring thickness is.
- FIG. 2 provides a measure of the of the thermal mismatch induced bending and shear stress on the right side of the silicon-based package 100 when the temperature is reduced from a stress free state at 100° C. to 25° C.
- the value 100° C. is about the midpoint between solder solidification and room temperature and is thus roughly about the stress free point after multiple temperature cycles.
- the range is fairly typical of a chip-on chip-off temperature cycle although wider ranges are required for reliability testing. (For illustrative purposes the bending is exaggerated by a factor of 5.)
- the bending for the silicon-based package 100 having a thinned region 150 as shown in FIG.
- FIG. 3 provides a measure of the thermal mismatch induced bending and shear stress on the right side of the silicon-based package 100 where the temperature is again reduced from 100° C. to 25° C. but where the silicon carrier does not have any thinned silicon regions.
- the bending for the silicon-based package 100 without a thinned region 150 is equal to ⁇ 31 ⁇ m.
- a silicon carrier 120 having a thinned region 150 is more flexible allowing for increased bending to occur, thereby reducing package warpage, as compared to a silicon carrier 120 having no thinned regions, i.e, the thinned regions of the silicon carrier 120 , having increased flexibility, provide increased stability to the silicon carrier 120 , as well as the entire silicon based package 100 .
- the use of the locally thinned silicon carrier apparatus as described in at least one of the presently preferred embodiments reduces the negative effects of thermal mismatch, package warpage, and overall package failure. It should also be noted, however, that the carrier thickness and substrate composition will impact the desirability of thinning.
- the silicon of the carrier is removed entirely in the thinned regions, so the remaining carrier is made up of only the wiring layer or layers, generally consisting of silicon dioxide and copper or other conducting metals. Since a significant increase in carrier flexibility is required for thinning to be useful, the preferred embodiment contemplates thinning by at least a factor of 0.6 which would reduce the carrier stiffness by about a factor of two.
- the apparatus of the present invention can be constructed using a subset of, and coincident with, process steps used to make silicon through a number of different processes.
- a preferred process comprises: (a) patterning and DRIE etch to etches holes or grooves for the through-via walls, wherein the etching of the walls of the regions where the silicon carrier is to be locally thinned can also be achieved; (b) thermal oxide and CVD polysilicon fill of grooves; (c) completion of all front end line processes (FEOL) including devices (d) metal or other material being used for the etch stop; however, it should be noted that unlike the through-via process, the etch stop does not require electrical conduction or connection; (e) back-end-of-line (BEOL) pads, wiring and insulation, wherein these layers can remain in the flexible regions (generally BEOL and wiring layers are thin enough to sustain the contemplated bending of the present invention); (f) lamination to support glass and carrier thinning; (g) backside patterning to expose
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An apparatus and method providing flexibility to a silicon chip carrier which, in at least one embodiment, comprises multiple chips and a silicon chip carrier having thinned regions between some adjacent chips, thus, allowing for increased flexibility and reduced package warpage.
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- This application is a continuation application of copending U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11/323,568 filed on Dec. 30, 2005, the contents of which are hereby incorporated by reference in its entirety.
- The present invention relates generally to packaging technology for electronic components, and more particularly relates to the field of silicon based carriers for microprocessors.
- Silicon based packages are known to have significant potential affect upon packaging technology. As explained in Development of Next-Generation System-On-Package (SOP) technology Based on Silicon Carriers with Fine-Pitch Chip Interconnection, Knickerbocker et al., IBM J. Res. & Dev. Vol. 49, No. 4/5 July/September 2005, which is hereby incorporated by reference, some useful features of silicon based packages include: dense wiring using back-end-of-line (BEOL) processing; increased chip package interface reliability; the use of interconnections like advanced solder microbumps or permanent copper interconnections; the ability to embed active devices into the carrier itself; and for carriers having through-vias the support of heterogeneous semiconductor technologies, passive or active circuits and high-density I/O wiring interconnections with electro-optic technology, as well as the support of three-dimensional circuit integration.
- The full potential of silicon carriers cannot be fully realized, however, until problems related to thermal mismatches between various components of silicon based packages are overcome. Broadly speaking, a silicon based package is comprised of various components including, chips, carriers having various bumps and underfills, and substrates, all of which may be made of the same or different materials and have different thermal and mechanical stresses placed upon them. For a more in-depth discussion of silicon based packages, any of several sources may be relied upon, including G. W. Doerre and D. E. Lackey, “The IBM ASIC/SoC Methodology—A Recipe for First-Time Success,” IBM J. Res. & Dev. 46, 649 (2002), and D. J. Bodendorf, K. T. Olson, J. P. Trinko, and J. R. Winnard, “Active Silicon Chip Carrier,” IBM Tech. Disclosure Bull. 7, 656 (1972).
- For example, the useable size of a chip can be limited by the thermal mismatch between a silicon chip and substrate. If a chip is too large, the stresses at the largest distances from the thermal neutral point on the underfill, solder balls, and chip can exceed the material strengths and cause failures and/or package warpage such that the useable limits for attachment or cooling solutions are exceeded. There is a similar issue with silicon carriers where multiple chips are attached to a silicon carrier interposer which is added between the chips and package or circuit board. A silicon carrier can be made thinner to increase its flexibility; however, this limits the robustness of the carrier relative to the forces placed on it during bonding and thermal cycling due to the bumps above and below the carrier which exert loads on the carrier.
- A need has therefore been recognized in connection with providing an effective means for reducing the thermo-mechanical stresses created by thermal mismatches between chip, carrier, and substrate.
- There is broadly contemplated, in accordance with at least one presently preferred embodiment of the present invention, an apparatus providing reduced thermal-mechanical stresses to a silicon carrier through the creation of localized regions in which the silicon carrier is thinned.
- In accordance with one embodiment of the present invention, an apparatus providing reduced thermal-mechanical stresses to an electronic device is provided, the apparatus comprising a plurality of chips electrically connectable to a silicon chip carrier having thinned regions between adjacent chips, wherein the silicon chip carrier includes bumps and underfill. The thickness of said silicon carrier is reduced locally, for example in the parts of the carrier where chips are not attached, to introduce greater flexibility where the loads due to bumps are not present. The silicon carrier can be of varied thickness and, thus, rigid where bumps are located and flexible in other locations where bumps are not present.
- In summary, one aspect of the invention provides a chip carrying apparatus for use in electronic devices, said apparatus comprising: a plurality of chips; a chip carrier including interconnection regions allowing electrical interconnections between chips and chip carrier, wherein said localized areas of said chip carrier are thinned; and a substrate.
- For a better understanding of the present invention, together with other and further features and advantages thereof, reference is made to the following description, taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, and the scope of the invention will be pointed out in the appended claims.
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FIG. 1 schematically illustrates a silicon carrier in accordance with at least one embodiment of the present invention, including a locally thinned region of the silicon carrier. -
FIG. 2 schematically illustrates the thermal mismatch induced bending and shear stress for the right side of the structure illustrated inFIG. 1 . -
FIG. 3 schematically illustrates the thermal mismatch induced bending and shear stress for the right side of a structure equivalent to that as shown inFIG. 1 except that no region of the silicon carrier is thinned. - Referring to the drawings, in
FIG. 1 a silicon-carrier-basedpackage 100 is shown in accordance with a presently preferred embodiment of the invention. The silicon-basedpackage 100 includes:chips 110; asilicon carrier 120; bumps andunderfill 130 associated with the top and bottom of thesilicon carrier 120; substrate 140; and a localizedthinned region 150 of thesilicon carrier 120. In this embodiment it is preferred the substrate 140 is 1 mm thick Al2O3, the silicon carrier is 200 μm thick, and the chips are 720 μm thick and 5 mm wide. While the presently preferred dimensions are set forth in the preceding sentence, any appropriate thickness may be used. It should be recognized, however, that wafer thickness standard is about 700 um, the silicon carrier thickness is likely to be 25 um to 300 um, and the present invention may not be especially useful if the silicon carrier thickness is below about 20 um as the structure is then very flexible anyway. In any event, it is unlikely the thinness can go below 5 um-10 um as this is about what the wiring thickness is. -
FIG. 2 provides a measure of the of the thermal mismatch induced bending and shear stress on the right side of the silicon-basedpackage 100 when the temperature is reduced from a stress free state at 100° C. to 25° C. As recognized by one of skill in the art, thevalue 100° C. is about the midpoint between solder solidification and room temperature and is thus roughly about the stress free point after multiple temperature cycles. The range is fairly typical of a chip-on chip-off temperature cycle although wider ranges are required for reliability testing. (For illustrative purposes the bending is exaggerated by a factor of 5.) The bending for the silicon-basedpackage 100 having athinned region 150, as shown inFIG. 2 , is equal to −23 μm at midpoint deflection off chord. In comparison,FIG. 3 provides a measure of the thermal mismatch induced bending and shear stress on the right side of the silicon-basedpackage 100 where the temperature is again reduced from 100° C. to 25° C. but where the silicon carrier does not have any thinned silicon regions. The bending for the silicon-basedpackage 100 without athinned region 150, as shown inFIG. 3 , is equal to −31 μm. - Thus, it should be appreciated that a
silicon carrier 120 having athinned region 150 is more flexible allowing for increased bending to occur, thereby reducing package warpage, as compared to asilicon carrier 120 having no thinned regions, i.e, the thinned regions of thesilicon carrier 120, having increased flexibility, provide increased stability to thesilicon carrier 120, as well as the entire silicon basedpackage 100. Thus, the use of the locally thinned silicon carrier apparatus as described in at least one of the presently preferred embodiments reduces the negative effects of thermal mismatch, package warpage, and overall package failure. It should also be noted, however, that the carrier thickness and substrate composition will impact the desirability of thinning. Thus, for example, where a carrier is already relatively thin further thinning may not be advantageous. In one preferred embodiment, the silicon of the carrier is removed entirely in the thinned regions, so the remaining carrier is made up of only the wiring layer or layers, generally consisting of silicon dioxide and copper or other conducting metals. Since a significant increase in carrier flexibility is required for thinning to be useful, the preferred embodiment contemplates thinning by at least a factor of 0.6 which would reduce the carrier stiffness by about a factor of two. - As appreciated by one skilled in the art, the apparatus of the present invention can be constructed using a subset of, and coincident with, process steps used to make silicon through a number of different processes. A preferred process comprises: (a) patterning and DRIE etch to etches holes or grooves for the through-via walls, wherein the etching of the walls of the regions where the silicon carrier is to be locally thinned can also be achieved; (b) thermal oxide and CVD polysilicon fill of grooves; (c) completion of all front end line processes (FEOL) including devices (d) metal or other material being used for the etch stop; however, it should be noted that unlike the through-via process, the etch stop does not require electrical conduction or connection; (e) back-end-of-line (BEOL) pads, wiring and insulation, wherein these layers can remain in the flexible regions (generally BEOL and wiring layers are thin enough to sustain the contemplated bending of the present invention); (f) lamination to support glass and carrier thinning; (g) backside patterning to expose via cores and regions to be further thinned; (h) wet chemical etch to remove via cores and regions to be thinned; and (i) any further process steps related to finishing the carrier.
- If not otherwise stated herein, it is to be assumed that all patents, patent applications, patent publications and other publications (including web-based publications) mentioned and cited herein are hereby fully incorporated by reference herein as if set forth in their entirety herein.
- Although illustrative embodiments of the present invention have been described herein with reference to the accompanying drawings, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited to those precise embodiments, and that various other changes and modifications may be affected therein by one skilled in the art without departing from the scope or spirit of the invention.
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1. A chip carrying apparatus for use in electronic devices, said apparatus comprising:
a plurality of chips;
a chip carrier including interconnection regions allowing electrical interconnections between said chips and said chip carrier,
wherein the thickness of at least one localized area of said chip carrier is reduced compared to at least one other localized area of said chip carrier; and
a substrate.
2. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein said chip carrier is a silicon chip carrier.
3. The apparatus according to claim 2 , wherein said interconnections are solder microbumps.
4. The apparatus according to claim 2 , wherein said interconnections are permanent copper interconnections.
5. The apparatus according to claim 2 , wherein said silicon chip carrier further comprises through-vias.
6. The apparatus according to claim 2 , wherein the reduced region is reduced to no more than about sixty percent of the original thickness.
7. The apparatus according to claim 2 , wherein the thickness of any wiring layers is not reduced.
8. The apparatus according to claim 2 , wherein walls to said reduced regions are formed by etching.
9. The apparatus according to claim 8 wherein said reduced regions are formed by a chemical etching process.
10. The apparatus according to claim 8 , wherein said etching comprises DRIE etching.
11. The apparatus of according to claim 2 , further comprising BEOL layers.
12. The apparatus according to claim 11 , wherein said reduced region comprises said BEOL layer.
13. A method for manufacturing a chip carrying apparatus for use in electronic devices, said method comprising the steps of:
creating interconnection regions in a chip carrier which allow electrical interconnections between said chip carrier and chips placed on said chip carrier,
reducing the thickness of at least one localized area of said chip carrier compared to at least one other localized are of said chip carrier
14. The method according to claim 13 , wherein said chip carrier is a silicon chip carrier.
15. The method according to claim 14 , wherein said interconnections are solder microbumps.
16. The method according to claim 14 , wherein said interconnections are permanent copper interconnections.
17. The method according to claim 14 , wherein said silicon chip carrier comprises through-vias.
18. The method according to claim 14 , wherein the reduced region is reduced to no more than about sixty percent of the original thickness.
19. The method according to claim 14 , wherein the thickness of any wiring layers is not reduced.
20. The method according to claim 14 , wherein walls to said reduced regions are formed by etching.
21. The method according to claim 20 , wherein said reduced regions are formed by a chemical etching process.
22. The method according to claim 20 , wherein said etching comprises DRIE etching.
23. The method according to claim 14 , wherein BEOL layers are used.
24. The method according to claim 23 , wherein said reduced region comprises said BEOL layer.
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