Copper bonding technology in heterogeneous integration

YG Lee, M McInerney, YC Joo, IS Choi… - Electronic Materials …, 2024 - Springer
As semiconductor device scaling faces a severe technical bottleneck, vertical die stacking
technologies have been developed to obtain high performance, high density, low latency …

Dielectric materials characterization for hybrid bonding

V Chidambaram, P Lianto, X Wang… - 2021 IEEE 71st …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Wide range of choices are available for dielectric materials selection for hybrid bonding,
which include: thermal oxide, PECVD TEOS SiO2, SiN, SiCN and commercial polymer …

Void formation mechanism related to particles during wafer-to-wafer direct bonding

F Nagano, S Iacovo, A Phommahaxay… - ECS Journal of Solid …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Achieving a void-free bonding interface is an important requirement for the wafer-to-wafer
direct bonding process. The two main potential mechanisms for void formation at the …

Characterization of 300 mm low temperature SiCN PVD films for hybrid bonding application

XF Brun, MM Hasan, Y Yang… - 2023 IEEE 73rd …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Hybrid bonding or surface activated bonding is becoming the technology to manufacture
higher density first-level interconnects by addressing pitch scaling difficulties of solder …

Critical challenges with copper hybrid bonding for chip-to-wafer memory stacking

W Zhou, M Kwon, Y Chiu, H Guo… - 2023 IEEE 73rd …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Due to nonmature wafer yield and customer demand for high-number die stacking, the chip-
to-wafer stacking process with only known good die is a preferred solution to advanced …

Area-selective electroless deposition of Cu for hybrid bonding

F Inoue, S Iacovo, Z El-Mekki, SW Kim… - IEEE Electron …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This letter describes the use of area-selective electroless Cu deposition for topography
control of Cu-SiCN hybrid bonding pads. The electroless deposition of Cu allows one to …

Inorganic temporary direct bonding for collective die to wafer hybrid bonding

F Inoue, S Teranishi, T Iwata, K Onishi… - 2023 IEEE 73rd …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A newly developed temporary bonding method for die population on a carrier wafer with
CVD dielectric film has been demonstrated. With this integration approach, the temporary …

Investigation of wet pretreatment to improve Cu-Cu bonding for hybrid bonding applications

TH Hung, TC Kang, SY Mao, TC Chou… - 2021 IEEE 71st …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The main development challenge of low temperature hybrid bonding technology is the
oxidation of Cu surface. The schemes to achieve the high-quality surface condition of Cu …

A study on the surface activation of Cu and oxide for hybrid bonding joint interface

B Hwang, S Kim, J Lee, S Lee, Y Jee… - 2023 IEEE 73rd …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Hybrid copper bonding technology (HCB) has been developed to reduce the joint gap of
stacked chips to the limit for miniaturization of I/O pitch and high heat dissipation. Especially …

Towards standardization of hybrid bonding interface: In-depth study of dielectrics on direct bonding

Y Yang, XF Brun, MH Weber… - 2024 IEEE 74th …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Hybrid bonding has become the key technology to enabling high density interconnect
interfaces for fine pitch integration through the direct bonding of dielectrics followed by the …