摘要:
A supporting substrate (10) having a flat supporting face is integrated with a semiconductor wafer W while supporting the surface thereof on the supporting face of the supporting substrate (10). The semiconductor wafer W integrated with the supporting substrate (10) is polished or etched on the back thereof using a thinning device and a film is formed on the back of the semiconductor wafer W integrated with the supporting substrate (10) using a film forming device (40). Since the semiconductor wafer W is integrated with the supporting substrate, even a semiconductor wafer as thin as 100 μm or less is not warped and thereby the film can be formed uniformly.
摘要:
A wafer processing method capable of easily handling even a thinly formed wafer during the processing thereof is provided. An annular protective member is bonded to an outer circumferential excess region out of an outer surface of the wafer, on which devices are not formed, and a rear surface is ground with the outer surface left in the mentioned condition. Since the outer circumference of the wafer is reinforced with the annular protective member, the handling of the wafer becomes easy even after the wafer becomes thinner due to a grinding operation.
摘要:
A method of separating a plate-like workpiece held by adhesion on an elastic adhesive pad from the pad. The elastic adhesive pad has innumerable pores in its surface and generates adhesive force when negative pressure is produced by the pores, after being crushed, by restoration force generated by elasticity and adhesion. The method includes the step of heating the elastic adhesive pad at a predetermined temperature to separate the plate-like workpiece from the elastic adhesive pad by air expanding in the pores.
摘要:
A cutting machine comprises a chucking means for holding the semiconductor wafer that is to be cut, a cutting means for cutting the semiconductor wafer held on the chucking means, a first moving means for moving the chucking means relative to the cutting means in a moving direction perpendicular to the center axis of the chucking means, and a second moving means for moving the cutting means relative to the chucking means in a direction of depth of cutting which is the direction of center axis of the chucking means. The cutting machine further comprises a thickness detecting means for detecting the thickness of the workpiece held on the chucking means, and a control means for controlling the motion of the second moving means depending upon the thickness of the workpiece detected by the thickness detecting means and for setting the position of the cutting means in the direction of depth of cutting relative to the chucking means thereby to set the depth of cutting the workpiece by the cutting means. The thickness detecting means includes a non-contact back-pressure sensor having a nozzle for flowing out a gas toward the surface of the workpiece held on the chucking means.
摘要:
Disclosed is an apparatus for grinding spherical objects into an exact spherical shape. The sphere-reshaping apparatus comprises a grinding section equipped with means for grinding spherical objects, an inlet section equipped with means for feeding spherical objects to the grinding section and an outlet section equipped with means for taking out reshaped spherical objects from the grinding section. The inlet section, grinding section and outlet section communicate by transporting means. The transporting means comprises an endless carrier belt having a series of apertures made for accepting spherical objects and a drive for driving the endless carrier belt. In the grinding section an endless grinding belt runs parallel with the endless carrier belt in same or counter direction relative to the endless carrier belt at such a speed that causes spherical objects to rub on the grinding belt. A randomizer moves back and forth across the carrier and grinding belts to sandwich spherical objects between the randomizer and the grinding belt, thereby assuring deviation-free grinding of spherical objects.
摘要:
A method of dividing a wafer having a plurality of areas, which are sectioned by the streets formed on the front surface in a lattice pattern and a plurality of devices, which are formed in the sectioned areas, along streets, the method comprising a first cutting step for holding the front surface of the wafer on a chuck table of a cutting machine and forming a first groove having a depth that is about half of the thickness of the wafer, along the streets from the rear surface of the wafer; a second cutting step for holding the rear surface of the wafer on a chuck table and forming a second groove which does not reach the first groove, along the streets from the front surface of the wafer; and a dividing step for breaking an uncut portion between the first groove and the second groove by exerting external force along the streets of the wafer, on which the first grooves and the second grooves have been formed.
摘要:
A grinding machine is provided which includes a holding table adapted to hold a workpiece; a grinding unit operative to grind the workpiece held on the holding piece; and a grinding unit transfer mechanism operative to shift the grinding unit in a direction coming close to or moving away from the workpiece. The grinding unit includes a porous pad having a large number of fine pores opposed to the workpiece held on the holding table, a gel-like slurry storing portion provided on the porous pad so as to store gel-like slurry therein, and a water supply unit operative to supply water between the porous pad and the workpiece. The porous pad contains superabrasives at least at an outer circumferential portion, and the fine pores of the porous pad each have a diameter greater than that of each of the superabrasives contained in the gel-like slurry.
摘要:
An optical device manufacturing method including the steps of: forming a groove with a depth corresponding to a finish thickness of the heat sink in a heat sink material at a position corresponding to an associated one of the streets sectioning the plurality of optical devices; joining the optical device layer of the optical device wafer to the heat sink material via a joining metal layer; cutting and dividing the optical device wafer along the streets into individual optical devices; sticking a protection member to the rear surface of the substrate of the optical device wafer; and grinding the rear surface of the heat sink material to expose the grooves to the rear surface to thereby divide the heat sink material into heat sinks corresponding to associated individual optical devices.
摘要:
A terminal board having a plurality of terminals on which ball electrodes are formed can be prepared efficiently and economically without having any short-circuiting between terminals when its terminals formed in very close proximity to one another, as on an interposer (1), have their heads made uniform in height by causing the terminals (4) to project from a surface of a board (2) coated with a resist film, and applying a cutting tool (19) to the surface of the board (2) having the terminals project therefrom to carry out lathe turning for the heads of the terminals (4), while having the terminal board held by a rotatable chuck table (17) and rotating the chuck table (17).
摘要:
On the back surface of the chip of which a front surface is formed with an electronic circuit, an adhesive film of a shape and dimensions corresponding to at least the back surface of the chip is adhered to obtain the semiconductor chip with the entire back surface covered with the adhesive film. Such a semiconductor chip is obtained by forming a division groove in the front surface of a semiconductor wafer to be divided into plural chips, grinding a back surface of the wafer until the division groove appears to divide the wafer into plural chips, adhering the adhesive film and a dicing tape on the entire back surface of the wafer, and stretching the dicing tape to cut the adhesive film along the division groove.