Part I From Thick Wafers to Ultra-Thin Silicon Chips
1 Why Are Silicon Wafers as Thick as They Are? ................ 3
Peter Stallhofer
2 Thin Chips on the ITRS Roadmap ............................. 13
Joachim N. Burghartz
Part II Thin Chip Fabrication Technologies
3 Thin Wafer Manufacturing and Handling
Using Low Cost Carriers .................................... 21
Florian Schmitt and Michael Zernack
4 Ultra-thin Wafer Fabrication Through Dicing-by-Thinning .... 33
Christof Landesberger, Sabine Scherbaum, and Karlheinz
Bock
5 Thin Wafer Handling and Processing without
Carrier Substrates ......................................... 45
Yoshikazu Kobayashi, Martin Plankensteiner, and Midoriko
Honda
6 Epitaxial Growth and Selective Etching Techniques .......... 53
Evangelos A. Angelopoulos and Alexander Kaiser
7 Silicon-on-Insulator (SOI) Wafer-Based Thin-Chip
Fabrication ................................................ 61
Joachim N. Burghartz
8 Fabrication of Ultra-thin Chips Using Silicon Wafers
with Buried Cavities ....................................... 69
Martin Zimmermann, Joachim N. Burghartz, Wolfgang Appel,
and Christine Harendt
Part III Add-on Processing
9 Through-Silicon Vias Using Bosch DRIE Process Technology ... 81
Franz Laermer and Andrea Urban
10 Through-Silicon via Technology for 3D 1С ................... 93
Eric Beyne
11 3D-IC Technology Using Ultra-Thin Chips ................... 109
Mitsumasa Koyanagi
12 Substrate Handling Techniques for Thin Wafer Processing ... 125
Christof Landesberger, Sabine Scherbaum, and Karlheinz
Bock
Part IV Assembly and Embedding of Ultra-Thin Chips
13 System-in-Foil Technology ................................. 141
Andreas Dietzel, Jeroen van den Brand, Jan Vanfleteren,
Wim Christiaens, Erwin Bosman, and Johan De Baets
14 Chip Embedding in Laminates ............................... 159
Andreas Kugler, Metin Koyuncu, Andre Zimmermann, and Jan
Kostelnik
15 Handling of Thin Dies with Emphasis on Chip-to-Wafer
Bonding ................................................... 167
Fabian Schnegg, Hannes Kostner, Gemot Bock, and Stefan
Engensteiner
16 Micro Bump Assembly ....................................... 185
Paresh Limaye and Wenqi Zhang
Part V Characterization and Modelling
17 Mechanical Characterisation and Modelling of Thin Chips ... 195
Stephan Schoenfelder, Joerg Bagdahn, and Mattias
Petzold
18 Structure Impaired Mechanical Stability of Ultra-thin
Chips ..................................................... 219
Tu Hoang, Stefan Endler, and Christine Harendt
19 Piezoresistive Effect in MOSFETS .......................... 233
Nicoleta Wacker and Harald Richter
20 Electrical Device Characterisation on Ultra-thin Chips .... 245
Mahadi-UI Hassan, Horst Rempp, Harald Richter, and
Nicoleta Wacker
21 MOS Compact Modelling for Flexible Electronics ............ 259
Slobodan Mijalković
22 Piezojunction Effect: Stress Influence on Bipolar
Transistors ............................................... 271
J. Fredrik Creemer and Patrick J. French
23 Thermal Effects in Thin Silicon Dies: Simulation and
Modelling ................................................. 287
Niccolò Rinaldi, Salvatore Russo, and Vincenzo
d'Alessandro
24 Optical Characterisation of Thin Silicon .................. 309
Michael Reuter and Sebastian J. Eisele
Part VI Applications
25 Thin Chips for Power Applications ......................... 321
Kurt Aigner, Oliver Haberlen, Herbert Hopfgartner,
and Thomas Laska
26 Thinned Backside-Illuminated (BSI) Imagers ................ 337
Koen De Munck, Kyriaki Minoglou, and Piet De Moor
27 Thin Solar Cells .......................................... 353
Michael Reuter
28 Bendable Electronics for Retinal Implants ................. 363
Heinz-Gerd Graf
29 Thin Chip Flow Sensors for Nonplanar Assembly ............. 377
Hannes Sturm and Walter Lang
30 RFID Transponders ......................................... 389
Cor Scherjon
31 Thin Chips for Document Security .......................... 399
Thomas Suwald
32 Flexible Display Driver Chips ............................. 413
Ali Asif and Harald Richter
33 Microwave Passive Components in Thin Film Technology ...... 425
Behzad Rejaei
34 Through-Silicon via Technology for RF and Millimetre-Wave
Applications .............................................. 445
Alvin Joseph, Cheun-Wen Huang, Anthony Stamper, Wayne
Woods, Dan Vanslette, Mete Erturk, Jim Dunn, Mike
McPartlin, and Mark Doherty
Index ........................................................ 455
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