Silicon thinning

  • Grinding
  • CMP
  • Dry etch
  • Wet etch, including HNA stop on epi

Bonding methods:

  • Face-to-face, back-to-back, face-to-back
  • Wafer-to-wafer (More than three active device wafers per stack)
  • Die-to-wafer
  • Die-to-die
  • Component/chiplet to interposer

Bonding technologies:

  • Low temperature bonding
  • Covalent oxide bonding (ZiBond®)
  • Hybrid Bonding: DBI® (Direct Bond Integration) using copper or nickel
  • Thermocompression bonding (TCB)
  • Temporary bonding/debonding

Interposers with TSV

  • Custom design & build

  • Thick layer copper damascene

  • Silicon, fused silica, borosilicate glass, and organic substrates

    In development: post-fab formable metal with ultra-low CTE

  • Stitched fields (up to full wafer scale)

  • Chiplet integration

  • Front side and back side component mount

Micro-Transfer Printing (MTP)

Photonics integration

Microfluidics

Wafer coring (resizing)

Surface planarization

Stress compensation

Cleaning and deposition

TSV insertion (back side or via-middle)

Plasma dicing

Copper and nickel damascene processes and RDL

Aluminum RDL and pad metal process

IR alignment and printing

Back side passivation / delta doping / antireflective coating (ARC)

Back side interconnect

Back side pad open