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10. Final cleaning: After the passivation layer deposition, wafers were cleaned with alcohol,<br />

DI water, and blown dry <strong>for</strong> the next assembly steps.<br />

11. Solderball placement, reflow and singulation will be discussed in the following section.<br />

3.3 Preparation of SolderBrace Material<br />

With several years’ diligent work on the development of SolderBrace Material as the final<br />

WLCSP passivation layer, researchers from LORD have announced that this product is expected<br />

to be commercialized in the near future. However, at the initial stage of this research, a large<br />

number of test samples (see Table 3.3) having various chemical <strong>for</strong>mulas were investigated,<br />

tested, and compared to optimize the SolderBracing process.<br />

The introduction of silica into the polymer compound plays an important role in reducing<br />

the CTE and cure shrinkage. According to published literature, smaller size filler such as nano-<br />

silica should be more suitable <strong>for</strong> the photopolymerization process because it would not scatter<br />

the UV light and hinder the photo reaction [63]. However, this type of filler also has some<br />

negative effects on the underfill materials due to interfacial interactions and large surface areas,<br />

including inhibiting the epoxy cure, reducing the composite glass transition temperature (Tg),<br />

low density, high moisture absorption, and high viscosity at high loading level [20, 63]. In this<br />

research, particular difficulties were encountered with nano-silica filled samples were in washing<br />

the unexposed areas. The nano-silica tended to <strong>for</strong>m a "gel" which was hard to remove after<br />

developing. In addition, the CTE of nano-silica was not as low as regular silica. Larger size silica<br />

and high silica loading were found to be the preferred choice. Low CTE and low cure shrinkage<br />

were achieved with high loadings of silica.<br />

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