Abstract:
A connecting material that includes metallic particles with an oxygen state ratio of less than 15% as measured by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy and a mean particle size between 0.1 μm and 50 μm; and especially a connecting material that includes metallic particles that have been subjected to treatment for removal of a surface oxide film and subjected to surface treatment with a surface protective material, so as to provide a connecting material having a high coefficient of thermal conductivity even when joined at a curing temperature of up to 200° C. without application of a load, and that has sufficient bonding strength even when the cured product has been heated at 260° C.; as well as a semiconductor device employing the connecting material to bond a semiconductor element to a support member.
Abstract:
The invention provides a connecting material comprising metallic particles with an oxygen state ratio of less than 15% as measured by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, and especially a connecting material comprising metallic particles that have been subjected to treatment for removal of the surface oxide film and to surface treatment with a surface protective material, for the purpose of providing a connecting material having a high coefficient of thermal conductivity even when joined at a curing temperature of up to 200° C. without application of a load, and that has sufficient bonding strength even when the cured product has been heated at 260° C., as well as a semiconductor device employing it.
Abstract:
The conductive paste of the invention comprises a conductive powder and a binder component, wherein the conductive powder is composed of metal powder which is copper powder or copper alloy powder partially covered on the surface with silver, and is either a mixture of roughly spherical metal powder and flat metal powder, or roughly spherical or flat metal powder alone, and wherein the binder component contains a mixture of an epoxy resin and an imidazole compound with a hydroxyl group or a mixture of an epoxy resin and an imidazole compound with a carboxyl group.