12 August 2022 Stealth dicing using a quasi-continuous wave laser
Hsien-Chung Tang, Long-Jye Sheu, Wei-Hua Chieng, Li-Chuan Tang
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Abstract

As memory device packaging moves toward die stacking technology with thin chips of high density, wafer dicing has recently become a key factor in semiconductor yield. Stealth dicing technology, which produces laser irradiation inside the wafer to form a modified layer within the wafer without any damage to the surface, is an alternative and advanced dicing process that is in line with the future trend of thin wafers. The existing stealth dicing process that utilizes an ultrashort pulse laser is expensive. In this study, we proposed a low-cost method for wafer stealth dicing using quasi-continuous wave (QCW) lasers. We redesigned the focusing lens of a QCW metal-cutting laser machine to form a cutting head with a high numerical aperture (NA) that is suitable for wafer stealth dicing. An optothermal model used to simulate the dicing process and calculate the temperature was implemented numerically based on the Crank–Nicolson algorithm and the successive over-relaxation method. Both the simulation and experimental results demonstrate that a QCW laser machine with a high-NA focus lens is ideal for wafer stealth dicing.

© 2022 Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE)
Hsien-Chung Tang, Long-Jye Sheu, Wei-Hua Chieng, and Li-Chuan Tang "Stealth dicing using a quasi-continuous wave laser," Optical Engineering 61(8), 083104 (12 August 2022). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.61.8.083104
Received: 19 April 2022; Accepted: 1 August 2022; Published: 12 August 2022
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KEYWORDS
Semiconducting wafers

Laser cutting

Laser processing

Head

Absorption

Optical simulations

Pulsed laser operation

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