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leading to the solder joint failure. This stress effect is pronounced in the large area application on<br />

the whole wafer [15]. Since the early 1960’s, ceramic substrate materials have been assembled<br />

into the electronic packaging industries. The introduction of well dispersed low CTE ceramic<br />

fillers into a polymer matrix has been demonstrated to be extremely effective to reduce the CTE,<br />

increase the elastic modulus, and there<strong>for</strong>e improve the per<strong>for</strong>mance of the polymer. The higher<br />

the amount of fillers content that can be added into the polymer, the lower is the CTE of the<br />

polymer composites [16]. Due to the high Si-O bond energy, the low CTE SiO2 (silica) filled<br />

composite materials have been widely used to reduce the CTE of epoxy and improve the<br />

mechanical properties [17]. Figure 1.5 shows the schematic illustration of polymer coated<br />

ceramic filler. Here the filler particle is assumed in the round shape.<br />

Figure 1.5 <strong>Polymer</strong> coated ceramic filler particle<br />

In recent years, a number of investigations have demonstrated the feasibility of photo-<br />

polymerization <strong>for</strong> curing thick polymers and their composites. These polymers can be<br />

categorized into two types, depending on whether the polymerization proceeds by a radical-type<br />

or cationic-type reaction. The first type is based on the acrylate or vinyl compounds initiated by<br />

the free radical, while the second one is based on the photo-initiated cationic polymerization.<br />

Due to the high reactivity, radical-type systems are by far the most widely studied and used in<br />

today’s photo curing application [18-20]. Be<strong>for</strong>e the study conducted by Dr. C.P. Wong’s group<br />

at Georgia Tech [21], there are only a few reports in the photo-polymerization of silica/epoxy<br />

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