| NIPPON MICROMETAL CORPORATION Patent applications |
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| 20120118610 | BONDING WIRE FOR SEMICONDUCTOR - There is provided a bonding wire for semiconductor, capable of ensuring a favorable wedge bondability even when bonded to a palladium-plated lead frame, superior in oxidation resistivity and having a core wire of copper or a copper alloy. This bonding wire comprises: a core wire of copper or a copper alloy; a coating layer containing palladium and having a thickness of 10 to 200 nm; and an alloy layer formed on a surface of the coating layer, such alloy layer containing a noble metal and palladium and having a thickness of 1 to 80 nm. The aforementioned noble metal is either silver or metal, and a concentration of such noble metal in the alloy layer is not less than 10% and not more than 75% by volume. | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120104613 | BONDING WIRE FOR SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - It is an object of the present invention to provide a copper-based bonding wire whose material cost is low, having excellent ball bondability, reliability in a heat cycle test or reflow test, and storage life, enabling an application to thinning of a wire used for fine pitch connection. The bonding wire includes a core material having copper as a main component and an outer layer which is provided on the core material and contains a metal M and copper, in which the metal M differs from the core material in one or both of components and composition. The outer layer is 0.021 to 0.12 μm in thickness. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120094121 | COPPER ALLOY BONDING WIRE FOR SEMICONDUCTOR - The present invention is a copper-based bonding wire for use in a semiconductor element. The bonding wire of the present invention can be manufactured with an inexpensive material cost, and has a superior PCT reliability in a high-humidity/temperature environment. Further, the bonding wire of the present invention exhibits: a favorable TCT reliability through a thermal cycle test; a favorable press-bonded ball shape; a favorable wedge bondability; a favorable loop formability, and so on. Specifically, the bonding wire of the present invention is a copper alloy bonding wire for semiconductor manufactured by drawing a copper alloy containing 0.13 to 1.15% by mass of Pd and a remainder comprised of copper and unavoidable impurities. | 04-19-2012 |
| 20120038042 | LEAD-FREE SOLDER ALLOY, SOLDER BALL, AND ELECTRONIC MEMBER COMPRISING SOLDER BUMP - A lead-free solder alloy, a solder ball and an electronic member comprising a solder bump which enable the prevention of the occurrence of yellow discoloration on the surface of a solder after soldering, the surface of a solder bump after the formation of the bump in a BGA, and the surface of a solder bump after a burn-in test of a BGA. Specifically disclosed are: a lead-free solder alloy; a solder ball; and an electronic member comprising a solder bump, containing at least one additive element selected from Li, Na, K, Ca, Be, Mg, Sc, Y, lanthanoid series elements, Ti, Zr, Hf, Nb, Ta, Mo, Zn, Al, Ga, In, Si and Mn in the total amount of 1 ppm by mass to 0.1% by mass inclusive, with the remainder being 40% by mass or more of Sn. | 02-16-2012 |
| 20110120594 | BONDING WIRE FOR SEMICONDUCTOR - It is an object of the present invention to provide a multilayer wire which can accomplish both ball bonding property and wire workability simultaneously, and which enhances a loop stability, a pull strength, and a wedge bonding property. A semiconductor bonding wire comprises a core member mainly composed of equal to or greater than one kind of following elements: Cu, Au, and Ag, and an outer layer formed on the core member and mainly composed of Pd. A total hydrogen concentration contained in a whole wire is within a range from 0.0001 to 0.008 mass %. | 05-26-2011 |
| 20110104510 | BONDING STRUCTURE OF BONDING WIRE - The invention is aimed at providing a bonding structure of a copper-based bonding wire, realizing low material cost, high productivity in a continuous bonding in reverse bonding for wedge bonding on bumps, as well as excellent reliability in high-temperature heating, thermal cycle test, reflow test, HAST test or the like. The bonding structure is for connecting the bonding wire onto a ball bump formed on an electrode of a semiconductor device, the bonding wire and the ball bump respectively containing copper as a major component thereof. The bonding structure comprises a concentrated layer A provided at an interface of a bonding part of the ball bump and the bonding wire, wherein the concentration of a metal R other than copper in the concentrated layer A is not less than ten times the average concentration of the metal R in the ball bump; and a concentrated layer B provided at an interface of a bonding part of the ball bump and the electrode, wherein the concentration of the metal R in the concentrated layer B is not less than ten times the average concentration of the metal R in the ball bump. | 05-05-2011 |
| 20110011619 | BONDING WIRE FOR SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES - It is an object of the present invention to provide a highly-functional bonding wire which can reduce damages at a neck part, has good linearity of loops, stability of loop heights, and stability of bonded shape of a bonding wire, and can cope with semiconductor packaging techniques, such as low looping, thinning, achievement of a fine pitch, and three-dimensional packaging. A semiconductor-device bonding wire comprises a core member formed of an electrically-conductive metal, and a skin layer mainly composed of a face-centered cubic metal different from the core member and formed thereon. The percentage of <100> orientations in crystalline orientations in the lengthwise direction in the surface of the skin layer is greater than or equal to 50%. | 01-20-2011 |
| 20110011618 | COPPER ALLOY BONDING WIRE FOR SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - The present invention provides a semiconductor-device copper-alloy bonding wire which has an inexpensive material cost, ensures a superior ball joining shape, wire joining characteristic, and the like, and a good loop formation characteristic, and a superior mass productivity. The semiconductor-device copper-alloy bonding wire contains at least one of Mg and P in total of 10 to 700 mass ppm, and oxygen within a range from 6 to 30 mass ppm. | 01-20-2011 |
| 20100294532 | BONDING WIRE FOR SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES - It is an object of the present invention to provide a highly-functional bonding wire which has good wire-surface nature, loop linearity, stability of loop heights, and stability of a wire bonding shape, and which can cope with semiconductor packaging technologies, such as thinning, achievement of a fine pitch, achievement of a long span, and three-dimensional packaging. A semiconductor-device bonding wire comprises a core member formed of an electrically-conductive metal, and a skin layer mainly composed of a face-centered cubic metal different from the core member and formed thereon. The percentage of <100> orientations in crystalline orientations in the lengthwise direction in the surface of the skin layer is greater than or equal to 50%. | 11-25-2010 |
| 20100282495 | BONDING WIRE FOR SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - An object of the present invention is to provide a high-performance bonding wire that is suitable for semiconductor mounting technology, such as stacked chip bonding, thinning, and fine pitch mounting, where wire lean (leaning) at an upright position of a ball and spring failure can be suppressed and loop linearity and loop height stability are excellent. This bonding wire for a semiconductor device includes a core material made of a conductive metal, and a skin layer formed on the core material and containing a metal different from the core material as a main component; wherein a relationship between an average size (a) of crystal grains in the skin layer on a wire surface along a wire circumferential direction and an average size (b) of crystal grains in the core material on a normal cross section, the normal cross section being a cross section normal to a wire axis, satisfies an inequality of a/b≦0.7. | 11-11-2010 |
| 20100213619 | BONDING STRUCTURE OF BONDING WIRE AND METHOD FOR FORMING SAME - Provided is a bonding structure of a bonding wire and a method for forming the same which can solve problems of conventional technologies in practical application of a multilayer copper wire, improve the formability and bonding characteristic of a ball portion, improve the bonding strength of wedge connection, and have a superior industrial productivity. A bonding wire mainly composed of copper, and a concentrated layer where the concentration of a conductive metal other than copper is high is formed at a ball bonded portion. The concentrated layer is formed in the vicinity of the ball bonded portion or at the interface thereof. An area where the concentration of the conductive metal is 0.05 to 20 mol % has a thickness greater than or equal to 0.1 μm, and it is preferable that the concentration of the conductive metal in the concentrated layer should be five times as much as the average concentration of the conductive metal at the ball bonded portion other than the concentrated layer. | 08-26-2010 |
| 20090304545 | LEAD-FREE SOLDER ALLOY, SOLDER BALL AND ELECTRONIC MEMBER, AND LEAD-FREE SOLDER ALLOY, SOLDER BALL AND ELECTRONIC MEMBER FOR AUTOMOBILE-MOUNTED ELECTRONIC MEMBER - A lead-free solder alloy exhibiting good performance in impact resistance and vibration resistance. Also provided are a solder ball using such a lead-free solder alloy, and an electronic member having a solder bump using such a lead-free alloy. Specifically, the lead-free solder alloy consists of 1.0 to 2.0% by mass of Ag, 0.3 to 1.0% by mass of Cu, 0.005 to 0.1% by mass of Ni and the balance including Sn and unavoidable impurities. In an Sn—Ag—Cu based solder joint portion on a Cu electrode, a Cu | 12-10-2009 |
| 20090196789 | SOLDER ALLOY, SOLDER BALL AND ELECTRONIC MEMBER HAVING SOLDER BUMP - To provide a solder alloy, a solder ball and an electronic member having a solder bump, used for connection with a mother board or the like, having a melting temperature of less than 250° C. for the solder alloy, achieving high drop impact resistance required in mobile devices or the like. A solder alloy is used which consists of not less than 0.1 mass ppm of boron and not greater than 200 mass ppm of boron and a remainder comprising substantially not less than 40% by mass of Sn, in which its melting temperature is less than 250° C. | 08-06-2009 |
| 20090115059 | GOLD WIRE FOR SEMICONDUCTOR ELEMENT CONNECTION - A gold wire for semiconductor element connection having high strength and bondability. The connection has a limited amount of at least one element selected from calcium and rare earth elements, and a limited amount of at least one element selected from a group consisting of titanium, vanadium, chromium, hafnium, niobium, tungsten, and zirconium. The incorporation of a suitable amount of palladium or beryllium is preferred. The incorporation of calcium and rare earth element can improve the strength and young's modulus of a gold wire, and the incorporation of titanium and the like can reduce a deterioration in the roundness of press-bonded shape of press-bonded balls in the first bonding caused by the incorporation of calcium and rare earth elements. The bonding wire can simultaneously realize mechanical properties and bondability capable of meeting a demand for a size reduction in semiconductor and a reduction in electrode pad pitch. | 05-07-2009 |
| 20090072399 | SEMICONDUCTOR MOUNTING BONDING WIRE - There is provided a bonding wire which does not cause a leaning failure or the like. A semiconductor mounting bonding wire has a breaking elongation of 7 to 20%, and stress at 1% elongation is greater than or equal to 90% of a tensile strength and is less than or equal to 100% thereof. | 03-19-2009 |
