Since IC packages have been made thinner and smaller, the delamination and crack, which may be induced in the soldering process, have become important factors affecting the reliability of the package. The ability to penetrate deeply inside dielectric materials, and to reflect completely at the metal surface makes microwave inspection very suitable to detect such delamination. The authors have recently developed a new microwave imaging technique that uses an open-ended coaxial line sensor to detect the delamination in IC packages. The image was created by measuring the phase of the effective reflection coefficient at the aperture of the coaxial line sensor. For better evaluation of the shape and the size of the delamination, a method to further increase the spatial resolution of microwave imaging was studied in the present paper. The resolution affected by the dimensions of the sensor, the frequency of operation, and the standoff distance between the sensor and the sample was investigated by experiment. The experimental results indicate that microwave imaging is a promising technique for the integrity assessment of IC packages.
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Microwave Imaging for the Integrity Assessment of IC Packages
Y. Ju,
e-mail: ju@ism.mech.tohoku.ac.jp
Y. Ju
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Tohoku University, Aoba 01, Aramaki, Aoba-ku, Sendai 980-8579, Japan
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M. Saka,
M. Saka
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Tohoku University, Aoba 01, Aramaki, Aoba-ku, Sendai 980-8579, Japan
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H. Abe´
H. Abe´
Tohoku University, 2-1-1 Katahira, Aoba-ku, Sendai 980-8577, Japan
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Y. Ju
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Tohoku University, Aoba 01, Aramaki, Aoba-ku, Sendai 980-8579, Japan
e-mail: ju@ism.mech.tohoku.ac.jp
M. Saka
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Tohoku University, Aoba 01, Aramaki, Aoba-ku, Sendai 980-8579, Japan
H. Abe´
Tohoku University, 2-1-1 Katahira, Aoba-ku, Sendai 980-8577, Japan
Contributed by the Electrical and Electronic Packaging Division and presented at the Advances in Electronic Packaging 1999 (InterPack’99), Pacific Rim, ASME, Hawaii, June 13–19, 1999. Manuscript received by the EEPD July 30, 1999; revised manuscript received July 18, 2000. Associate Editor: B. Courtois.
J. Electron. Packag. Mar 2001, 123(1): 42-46 (5 pages)
Published Online: July 18, 2000
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July 30, 1999
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July 18, 2000
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Ju, Y., Saka, M., and Abe´, H. (July 18, 2000). "Microwave Imaging for the Integrity Assessment of IC Packages ." ASME. J. Electron. Packag. March 2001; 123(1): 42–46. https://doi.org/10.1115/1.1326440
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