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Nonhermetic Plastic Packaging of High Voltage Electronic Switches Utilizing a Low-Stress Glob Coating for 95/5Pb/Sn Solder Joints of Flip-Chip Bonded Multichip Module High Voltage Devices
Nonhermetic Plastic Packaging of High Voltage Electronic Switches Utilizing a Low-Stress Glob Coating for 95/5Pb/Sn Solder Joints of Flip-Chip Bonded Multichip Module High Voltage Devices
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Wong, C. P.
Segelken, John M.
Tai, K. L.
Wong, C. C.
Segelken, John M.
Tai, K. L.
Wong, C. C.
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AT&T’s number five electronic switching system (ESS) is a state-of-the-art electronic switch that uses solid-state
gated-diode-crosspoint (GDX) for fast switching of telephone calls. These GDX’s operate at 375 V and require exceptional
protection and reliability performance of these packages. Ceramic hermetic packages were used for these type of devices. In order to reduce the cost of these GDX’s, a new type of flip-chip bonded structure with 95/5 Pb/Sn solder joints GDX’s was developed.
These flip-chip GDX’s were surface-mounted on a conventional ceramic substrate. An thixotropic silicone gel was used as an
underfill and overfill glob-coating to provide the ultrahigh reliability
performance of these high voltage devices and a silicone elastomer was used to pot the hybrid surface-mounted GDX
multi-chip module structure to further enhance the robustness of its structure.
In this paper, the materials such as the flip-chip solder (95/5 Pb/Sn), silicone gel, and elastomer, and their processes such as flip-chip bumping, reflow, cleaning, encapsulation and reliability
testing are described for this robust, high performance and lowcost packages.
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1998-01
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