Influence of flexibility of the interconnects on the dynamic bending reliability of flexible hybrid electronics

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Contributors

  • Nagarajan Palavesam - , Chair of Electronic Packaging Technology, Fraunhofer Research Institution for Microsystems and Solid State Technologies (EMFT) (Author)
  • Waltraud Hell - , Fraunhofer Research Institution for Microsystems and Solid State Technologies (EMFT) (Author)
  • Andreas Drost - , Fraunhofer Research Institution for Microsystems and Solid State Technologies (EMFT) (Author)
  • Christof Landesberger - , Fraunhofer Research Institution for Microsystems and Solid State Technologies (EMFT) (Author)
  • Christoph Kutter - , Fraunhofer Research Institution for Microsystems and Solid State Technologies (EMFT) (Author)
  • Karlheinz Bock - , Chair of Electronic Packaging Technology (Author)

Abstract

The growing interest towards thinner and conformable electronic systems has attracted significant attention towards flexible hybrid electronics (FHE). Thin chip-foil packages fabricated by integrating ultra-thin monocrystalline silicon integrated circuits (ICs) on/in flexible foils have the potential to deliver high performance electrical functionalities at very low power requirements while being mechanically flexible. However, only very limited information is available regarding the fatigue or dynamic bending reliability of such chip-foil packages. This paper reports a series of experiments where the influence of the type of metal constituting the interconnects on the foil substrates on their dynamic bending reliability has been analyzed. The test results show that chip-foil packages with interconnects fabricated from a highly flexible metal like gold endure the repeated bending tests better than chip-foil packages with stiffer interconnects fabricated from copper or aluminum. We conclude that further analysis work in this field will lead to new technical concepts and designs for reliable foil based electronics.

Details

Original languageEnglish
Article number238
JournalElectronics (Switzerland)
Volume9
Issue number2
Publication statusPublished - Feb 2020
Peer-reviewedYes

External IDs

ORCID /0000-0002-0757-3325/work/139064763

Keywords

Keywords

  • Chip embedding, Chip-on-foil, Embedding in flex, Fatigue reliability, Flexible interposer, Flip-chip, System-in-foil, Thin metal film, Ultra-thin silicon