High Frequency Flip-Chip Bonding Technologies and Their Application to Microwave/Millimeter-Wave ICs

Hiroyuki SAKAI  Takayuki YOSHIDA  Morikazu SAGAWA  

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Electronics   Vol.E81-C   No.6   pp.810-818
Publication Date: 1998/06/25
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Print ISSN: 0916-8516
Type of Manuscript: INVITED PAPER (Special Issue on Microwave and Millimeter-Wave Module Technology)
Category: Functional Modules and the Design Technology
Keyword: 
flip-chip,  bump,  HIC (Hybrid IC),  microwave,  millimeter-wave,  

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Summary: 
This paper describes new IC design concepts using flip-chip bonding technologies for microwave and millimeter-wave circuit integration. Two types of bonding technologies, stud bump bonding (SBB) and micro bump bonding (MBB) are introduced, and their applications to microwave and millimeter-wave ICs are presented. Receiver front-end hybrid IC (HIC) for cellular and PHS handsets using SBB and new millimeter-wave ICs on Si substrate called millimeter flip-chip IC (MFIC) using MBB have been designed and fabricated to prove their advantages. These flip-chip bonding technologies are experimentally proven to provide excellent solutions for high performance and compact-sized ICs with low-cost. The HIC concept is applicable consistently over a wide range of devices from RF/microwave to millimeter-wave region.