The Study of Packaging Substrate Effect in FCBGA by Laser Assisted Bonding

In order to support the high growth of Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things, Industrial IOT, Cloud Service and 5G, the IC (Server/Router/Switch) needs higher/faster performance to collect, store, commute and transmit a mass of data. Therefore, the I/O (input/output) density of IC will increase with the silicon nodes <; 5 nm, fine pitch μbump, and fine line width/space substrate. However, the solder reflow of IC faces two problems of the chip damages (silicon nodes: current leakage, highly electromigration; ELK (extremely low-k): current leakage, crack) and solder high stress (solder: wicking, IMC (intermetallic compound)) due to highly thermal budget of MR (mass reflow). In this paper, LAB (laser assisted bonding) will replace MR (mass reflow) to solve these problems. In this study, a test vehicle with the size of 55*55 mm2 FCBGA (flip chip ball grid array) was built. Two types (A and B) of substrate were applied to the FCBGA, with the differences between the solder mask (thickness, surface brightness/roughness) and substrate mass. LAB uses a semiconductor laser with wavelength of 980 nm, and the area of laser beam is 91.5% of the substrate area. The study is divided into three parts. For the first part, the surface temperature of die without substrate is higher than that of die with substrate at the same parameters about 187.2 °C. The result shows that the substrate has the function of heat storage. In addition, for the surface temperature of die with substrate, the result shows that all solders melt at 2.82 sec, and the surface temperature of the center of die is 22.8 °C lower than the four corners of it. Then the delta temperature between the surface temperature of the center of die and bump is 48.3 °C. The result shows that the overall temperature of die with substrate is not uniform. Next, for substrate effect, the surface temperature of die and B substrate is lower than that of die and A substrate based on the following reasons: for the solder mask, (a) the surface brightness of B substrate is 11% higher than that of A substrate result in an increase of the reflected light; (b) the roughness of B substrate is 26% lower than that of A substrate result in an increase of the reflected light; (c) the thickness of B substrate is 23% lower than that of A Substrate result in a reduction of Absorbed light; for substrate mass (d) the weight of B substrate is 10% higher than that of A substrate. Finally, the assembled FCBGA packages by LAB passed reliability tests: MSL4 pre-conditioning with uHAST 168 hours, TCT B 1000 thermal cycles and HTST 1000 hours. Details of the results are presented and discussed in the paper. In summary, we have developed the parameter set to solve it in different substrates and predicted the melting time of solder and temperature profile of die surface. Therefore, LAB (laser assisted bonding) can successfully solve the problems MR encounters. The full descriptions of the development results will be discussed in this study.