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Xiamen University and Huawei Cooperation: A New Breakthrough in Diamond Cooling!
2024-03-29 09:49:13
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Recently, the School of Electronic Science and Technology at Xiamen University, along with Huawei and Xiamen Yuntian teams, made a breakthrough in the field of integrated chip diamond heat dissipation technology for packaged glass adapters. The related achievements were published in the authoritative journal IEEE Electron Device Letters in the field of microelectronic device packaging and manufacturing, with the title "Heterogeneous Integration of Diamond on Chip on Glass Interposer for Efficien
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Recently, a team led by Professor Yu Daquan and Professor Zhong Yi from the School of Electronic Science and Technology at Xiamen University, in collaboration with Huawei and the Xiamen Yuntian team, made breakthrough progress in the field of advanced packaging glass adapter integrated chip diamond heat dissipation technology. The related achievements were published in the international authoritative journal IEEE Electron Device Letters in the field of microelectronic device packaging and manufacturing under the title of "Heterogeneous Integration of Diamond on Chip on Glass Interposer for Efficient Thermal Management", and were selected as the front cover and editors' Picks for the current period.
With the rapid development of AI technology and its enormous demand for computing power, 2.5D and 3D packaging technologies are receiving increasing attention. Compared to silicon adapter plates, 2.5D packaging using glass adapter plates has the following advantages: 1) excellent high-frequency electrical characteristics; 2) Large and ultra-thin glass substrates are easy to obtain; 3) The process flow is simple, and there is no need to make a through hole side wall insulation layer; 4) The low-cost advantage brought by large-sized substrates and simplified process flow. On the other hand, whether using silicon or glass adapters for 2.5D packaging, as well as 3D integration of multiple active chip stacks, the higher integration density and power density pose serious challenges to chip thermal management. The current cooling technology mainly relies on hot through-holes, uniform heat plates, forced air or liquid cooling, which result in larger external dimensions and significant energy consumption at the packaging or board level.
Diamond has a very high isotropic thermal conductivity (1000-2200 W/(mK)) and has broad prospects as a heat sink. At present, the artificial synthesis of diamond is limited to 5-inch wafers, resulting in its wafer level integration with semiconductor substrates being limited to smaller III-V group semiconductors and compound semiconductors (GaN, SiC); In addition, the growth temperature of artificial diamond exceeds 400 ℃, which can easily cause damage to the chip. Chip level integration can avoid the problems of small wafer size and high growth temperature. However, traditional chip bonding techniques, such as soldering and silver sintering, often introduce thicker solder layers, resulting in larger interfacial thermal resistance. There is an urgent need for a chip level diamond integration process with low temperature, low stress, and low interface thermal resistance.
Figure 1. (a) 6-inch glass adapter plate with glass through holes (TGV) and redistribution layers (RDLs) for diamond/chip packaging, (b) chip bonded to glass adapter plate wafer, (c) schematic diagram of integrated diamond chip glass adapter plate (DoCoG), and (d) photos of DoCoG packaging thermal testing configuration.
Figure 2. (a) Schematic diagram of bonding process between diamond and thermal testing chip with micro protrusions, (b) SEM and (c) TEM analysis of diamond/silicon bonding interface, and (d)~(g) EDS distribution of C, Si, Ti, Cu, and Au elements.
Figure 3. (a) There are 28 independently controllable heating areas on the thermal testing chip, (b) voids at the bonding interface of the diamond/thermal testing chip, (c) maximum hot spot temperature at different power densities, (d) and (e) measurement temperatures for local high heat flux heating and global uniform heat flux heating at different bonding porosity, respectively.
This study innovatively integrates diamond low-temperature bonding and glass adapter plate technology, successfully integrating polycrystalline diamond substrates on the back of glass adapter plate chips for the first time. It not only conforms to the trend of miniaturization and lightweighting of electronic devices, but also becomes a breakthrough path for efficient chip heat dissipation, promoting the industrialization process of diamond heat dissipation substrates in the field of advanced packaging. At the same time, the team conducted in-depth research on glass substrate passive device technology and diamond substrate heat dissipation technology, providing strong support for high-performance, high integration, and low-cost three-dimensional integration of microsystems.
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