Reliable bonding using indium-based solders

Jongpil Cheong; Abhijat Goyal; Srinivas Tadigadapa; Christopher Rahn

doi:10.1117/12.524823

23 December 2003 Reliable bonding using indium-based solders

Jongpil Cheong, Abhijat Goyal, Srinivas Tadigadapa, Christopher Rahn

Proceedings Volume 5343, Reliability, Testing, and Characterization of MEMS/MOEMS III; (2003) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.524823
Event: Micromachining and Microfabrication, 2004, San Jose, California, United States

Abstract

Low temperature bonding techniques with high bond strengths and reliability are required for the fabrication and packaging of MEMS devices. Indium and indium-tin based bonding processes are explored for the fabrication of a flextensional MEMS actuator, which requires the integration of lead zirconate titanate (PZT) substrate with a silicon micromachined structure at low temperatures. The developed technique can be used either for wafer or chip level bonding. The lithographic steps used for the patterning and delineation of the seed layer limit the resolution of this technique. Using this technique, reliable bonds were achieved at a temperature of 200°C. The bonds yielded an average tensile strength of 5.41 MPa and 7.38 MPa for samples using indium and indium-tin alloy solders as the intermediate bonding layers respectively. The bonds (with line width of 100 microns) showed hermetic sealing capability of better than 10^-¹¹ mbar-l/s when tested using a commercial helium leak tester.

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Jongpil Cheong, Abhijat Goyal, Srinivas Tadigadapa, and Christopher Rahn "Reliable bonding using indium-based solders", Proc. SPIE 5343, Reliability, Testing, and Characterization of MEMS/MOEMS III, (23 December 2003); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.524823

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