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Method of making direct bonded wafers having a void free interface

US4939101A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateSep 6, 1988
Grant dateJul 3, 1990
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Expiry dateSep 6, 2008

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  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY10S228/903
  • WIPO fieldSemiconductors
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Wafers which are direct bonded to each other in accordance with prior art processes suffer from voids at their bonded interface. Annealing such composite structures at high temperature and high pressure (for silicon wafers preferably about 1,100.degree. C. and 15,000 psi) eliminates all voids which are not a result of the presence of a particle on one of the wafers at the time of mating.

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