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Solid State Technology

Year 2000
Issue 10

DEPARTMENTS

Think Tank


Family Allowance

Donald balanced his family budget with difficulty. He called his three sons - Al, the eldest, Ben and Cory, the youngest (who was four years Al's junior)


News


Honors for copper design and IC innovation

PHOENIX - In SRC's Copper IC Design Challenge, a national technology contest for university students that encourages exploration of the possibilities of copper in leading-edge IC manufacturing


Notes From The Floor


Semi packaging... a good investment?

I can't help but be amazed by the investment community's growing interest in semiconductor packaging. I would have thought that the packaging industry as a whole significantly lacks in glamour when compared to the high-flying (and fast-crashing) dot coms, and software, biomedical and pharmaceutical companies


New Products


New Products

The NXR-1510 is a new full-featured, automatic X-ray inspection and quality assurance test system


Editorial


Wrapping up 2000

What a year this has been! Advanced Packaging magazine has seen many great changes this year: a new and invigorated staff...an enthusiastic publisher...a renewed commitment to the industry...a fresh new design


Industry Voices


Industry Interview

Business models, roadmaps and a little black magic: An interview with Bob Hilton


FEATURES

Step By Step


Step 11: The back-end process: Singulation step by step

Consumer demands for miniaturized portable wireless applications and personal electronic devices have become the driver for reduced manufacturing costs and smaller integrated circuit (IC) packages


Step By Step


Step 12: The back-end process: Packing & shipping step by step

The advent of semiconductor materials being converted into electronic functions set off a revolution in electronic systems design


Step By Step


Step 10: The back-end process: Laser marking step by step

All laser vector marking systems work in essentially the same way. Typically, the vector marking system marks on a component while the component is stationary


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Selective flux jetting

Precision techniques to optimize process results for advanced packaging applications


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Optimized PVI

Process considerations can ensure value and performance from package visual inspection systems


How Dielectric Tsubg Sub


How dielectric Tg affects substrate performance

Transitions in polymer mechanical and dielectric properties accompany glass transition, a second-order phase change.