USE OF AN ADHESIVE COMPOSITION FOR DIE-ATTACHING HIGH POWER SEMICONDUCTORS

• Main Authors: SCHAACK, KLAUS, THOMAS, MURIEL
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French; German
• Published: 08.07.2009
• Subjects: ADHESIVE PROCESSES NOT PROVIDED FOR ELSEWHERE; ADHESIVES; BASIC ELECTRIC ELEMENTS; CASINGS OR CONSTRUCTIONAL DETAILS OF ELECTRIC APPARATUS; CHEMISTRY; DYES; ELECTRIC SOLID STATE DEVICES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; ELECTRIC TECHNIQUES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; ELECTRICITY; MANUFACTURE OF ASSEMBLAGES OF ELECTRICAL COMPONENTS; METALLURGY; MISCELLANEOUS APPLICATIONS OF MATERIALS; MISCELLANEOUS COMPOSITIONS; NATURAL RESINS; NON-MECHANICAL ASPECTS OF ADHESIVE PROCESSES IN GENERAL; PAINTS; POLISHES; PRINTED CIRCUITS; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES; USE OF MATERIALS AS ADHESIVES

The Directive 2002/95/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council promulgated that from 1 st July 2006 new electrical and electronic equipment must no longer contain lead. Accordingly, lead-free solder alloys for various electrical and electronic applications have been developed. But at present, lead in high melting temperature type solders, e.g. used for die-attach applications, are exempted from the directive due to lack of lead-free alternatives for these alloys. The present invention provides a lead-free die-attach composition for attaching high power semiconductor devices to printed circuit boards. The die-attach composition comprises a metal filled epoxy resin, wherein the metal is selected from a powder comprising copper and having spheroidal particles with less than half of the copper atoms in a surface layer being oxidized as measured by XPS.