Book Review: Handbook of 3D Integration – Volume 4
Jun 11, 2019 · By Herb Reiter · Book Reviews, Resource Library
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Book Review: Vertical 3D Memory Technologies
“From so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.” ~ Charles... Addressing 3D Integration Challenges: Designing Materials for a Complex Landscape
3D integration has created a complex landscape of many different package architectures and integration approaches that have diverse materials needs... Lithography Challenges for 2.5D Interposer Manufacturing
In recent years, 2.5D packaging has quickly gained acceptance as an advanced packaging process, and the first products using this... Glass Substrates for Advanced Packaging
Glass has many properties that make it an ideal substrate for interposers such as: ultra-high resistivity and low electrical loss,... Lithography Process Innovations Part 2: Improving Thermo-mechanical Reliability of TSV Interconnects
In Part 1 of this article series, we noted that despite the potential benefits associated with 3D and interposer-based 2.5D... Lithography Process Innovations for 2.5/3D Part 1: Alleviating TSV Stress
As traditional semiconductor scaling becomes increasingly complex and cost-prohibitive, transitioning from planar chip packaging architectures to 2.5D/3D stacked die package... Low-Temp, Ultra-Fine-Pitch Cu Interconnections for Manufacturable, Solder-free Assembly
A novel copper interconnection technology is being pioneered by Georgia Tech’s Packaging Research Center (GT-PRC) to achieve manufacturable solder-free assembly at... TSV MEOL Process Flow for Mobile 3D IC Stacking
Moore’s law is approaching physical limitations of CMOS scaling, and three dimensional (3D) integration technologies have been proposed as solutions.... The Internet of Things and Semiconductor Test
Herb Reiter, eda2asic, presented this poster presentation titled “The Internet of Things and Semiconductor Test” at the Test Vision 2020... Market Outlook for Permanent Wafer Bonding
Permanent wafer bonding can be categorized based on bonding with or without an intermediate layer. Intermediate layers can be subcategorized...
Electrical Design and Modeling Challenges for 3D Systems Integration
Over the last several years, the buzzword in the electronics industry has been “More than Moore”, referring to the embedding... A Path Finding Based SI Design Methodology for 3D Integration
3D integration is being touted as the next semiconductor revolution by industry. 3D integration involves the use of various interconnects... Path Finding: Who Performs and When?
Microelectronic products all have mechanical, thermal and electrical properties that degrade until the device is permanently damaged. Path finding adds... 2.5/3D Packaging: Path Finding
2.5D/3D packaging technologies are revitalizing creativity in high technology products. We thought we knew what faster, better, lighter and smaller... Survey and Review of 2.5D and 3D IC Packaging Technologies
On April 9, 2014 Herb Reiter presented a 2.5D and 3D IC packaging-centric update in context with an IEEE/CPMT dinner... SEMI 3D IC Standards Workshop at SEMICON Singapore 2014
SEMICON Singapore 2014 featured a Friday round-table workshop about SEMI 3D IC Standards, which was held to determine local needs... Book Review: Design and Modeling for 3D ICs and Interposers
For almost 50 years the semiconductor industry has practiced continued shrinking of transistor feature sizes and has been able to... TSV Inspection using Virtual Interface Technology
Frontier Semiconductor has recently introduced Virtual Interface Technology (VITTM) for TSV Inspection. In the realm of 2.5D/3D packaging, a high... 