Test head[ technical field ] A method for producing a semiconductor device
The present invention relates to a test head, and more particularly, to a test head for testing a wafer.
[ background of the invention ]
Tests performed on integrated circuits are particularly useful for detecting and isolating faulty circuits that already exist during the manufacturing steps. Therefore, test heads are commonly used to electrically test the circuits integrated on the wafer before they are diced and assembled in chip packages.
The test head comprises at least two guide plates separated by a partition board with a certain gap and a plurality of probes penetrating through the guide plates, the lower ends of the probes are contacted with the contact pads of the tested element, the upper ends of the probes are contacted with the contact pads of the space transformer, the guide plates are provided with a plurality of through holes corresponding to the probes one by one, the probes are bent in the gap between the two guide plates and axially slide in the through holes during pressing contact, and therefore the probes have certain acting force on the guide plates. The prior art guide plate is of an integrally formed structure such that the guide plate is made of a material, processing conditions are limited to a short pulse of femtosecond laser for successfully forming minute through holes in the guide plate, and the guide plate is generally made of a ceramic material such as silicon nitride or aluminum oxide (which is expensive) for providing sufficient rigidity to the guide plate. In addition, the probe penetrates through the guide plate, and the probe has a certain acting force on the guide plate, so that the guide plate needs to have enough stress and tensile strength, but the single-structure guide plate made of ceramic materials has limited stress and tensile strength and is high in price of ceramic on the market, so that the guide plate made of ceramic completely has limited stress and tensile strength, and the production cost is relatively high.
Therefore, there is a need for a test head with a new guide plate to overcome the above problems.
[ summary of the invention ]
In order to solve the above problems of the prior art, an object of the present invention is to provide a test head having a low-cost guide plate made of heterogeneous materials, wherein the guide plate is a composite structure of a plurality of plate members and adopts different materials and processes, thereby improving the stress and tensile strength of the guide plate and solving the problem of high cost of the guide plate.
To achieve the above object, the present invention provides a test head, comprising: an upper guide plate and a lower guide plate vertically separated by a partition plate, and a plurality of probes for contacting a tested element; the upper guide plate comprises an upper base plate and an upper support plate positioned above or below the upper base plate, the upper support plate and the upper base plate are fixed to form a whole, the upper base plate is provided with a plurality of upper through holes which correspond to the probes one by one and allow the probes to pass through, the upper support plate is provided with an upper opening which vertically penetrates through the upper support plate, the upper opening allows the probes to pass through, the upper base plate is made of ceramic, and the upper support plate is made of metal; the partition board is provided with a space for accommodating a plurality of probes, the partition board is provided with a side part at the periphery of the space, and the side part is overlapped with the upper support plate and the upper substrate along the vertical direction; the lower guide plate is provided with a plurality of lower through holes which are in one-to-one correspondence with the probes and through which the probes pass.
Further, the probe has a side face, a convex block is convexly extended from the side face along the width direction of the probe, the convex block is positioned above the upper substrate, a groove is connected with the lower end of the convex block and the side face, when the probe contacts a tested element, the side face contacts the hole wall of the upper through hole along the protruding direction of the convex block, and the lower end of the convex block contacts the upper surface of the upper substrate.
Further, the material of the partition board is invar steel with a lower coefficient of thermal expansion than the upper substrate.
Further, the upper supporting plate is bonded with the upper substrate, the material of the upper supporting plate is stronger in stress and tensile strength than the material of the upper substrate, and the thermal expansion coefficient of the material of the upper supporting plate is within +/-2.0 ppm/DEG C of the thermal expansion coefficient of the material of the upper substrate.
Further, when the material of the upper substrate is silicon nitride or other ceramic material with a thermal expansion coefficient between 1.5 and 3.9, the upper support plate is made of invar with a mark number of 4J32 or 4J38 or 4J 36; when theupper substrate 34 is made of aluminum nitride or other ceramic material with a thermal expansion coefficient between 4 and 6, the upper support plate is made of invar with a trademark of 4J29 or 4J33 or4J 42; when the upper substrate is made of alumina or other ceramic materials with a thermal expansion coefficient between 6 and 9, the upper support plate is made of invar with the brand number of 4J33, 4J34, 4J45, 4J47, 4J48, 4J50 or 4J 36.
Furthermore, the upper guide plate has two that set up from top to bottom, and the definition is first upper guide plate on, and the second upper guide plate is under, and the last backup pad of first upper guide plate has two, is located base plate top and below, and the last backup pad of second upper guide plate only has one, is located the base plate below, the baffle upwards contacts with the last backup pad of second upper guide plate.
The present invention also provides a test head comprising: a plurality of probes, each for contacting a device under test; the upper guide plate comprises an upper base plate and an upper support plate positioned above or below the upper base plate, the upper support plate and the upper base plate are fixedly integrated, the upper base plate is provided with a plurality of upper through holes which correspond to the probes one by one and allow the probes to pass through, the upper support plate is provided with an upper opening which vertically penetrates through the upper support plate, the upper opening allows the probes to pass through, the material of the upper base plate is different from that of the upper support plate, and the material of the upper support plate has stronger stress and tensile strength than that of the upper base plate; the partition plate is positioned below the upper guide plate and supports the upper guide plate upwards, the partition plate is provided with a space for accommodating a plurality of probes, the partition plate is provided with a side part at the periphery of the space, and the side part is overlapped with the upper support plate and the upper base plate along the vertical direction; and the lower guide plate is positioned below the partition plate and upwards contacts the partition plate, and is provided with a plurality of lower through holes which are in one-to-one correspondence with the probes and through which the probes pass.
Further, the probe has a side face, a convex block is convexly extended from the side face along the width direction of the probe, the convex block is positioned above the upper substrate, a groove is connected with the lower end of the convex block and the side face, when the probe contacts a tested element, the side face contacts the hole wall of the upper through hole along the protruding direction of the convex block, and the lower end of the convex block contacts the upper surface of the upper substrate.
Furthermore, go up the backup pad with the top substrate bonds, the material of top substrate is pottery, the material of going up the backup pad is metal or organic material.
Further, the lower guide plate comprises two lower supporting plates and two lower base plates which are alternately arranged from top to bottom, the lower base plates are bonded with the lower supporting plates, the partition plate is downwards contacted with one of the lower supporting plates, the lower through hole is formed in the lower base plate, a lower opening penetrating through the lower supporting plates is formed in the lower supporting plates and used for allowing a plurality of probes to penetrate through, the lower base plates are made of ceramic, and the lower supporting plates are made of metal or organic materials with stronger stress and tensile strength than those of the lower base plates.
Compared with the prior art, the invention has the following beneficial effects:
the upper guide plate of the test head is provided with a combined structure of a plurality of plate parts formed by heterogeneous materials (the upper guide plate of the test head comprises a substrate and a support plate which are made of different materials), and the support plate is made of metal or organic materials which have stronger stress and tensile strength than the substrate, so that the support effect can be provided for the substrate when a probe penetrates through the substrate and has corresponding acting force on the substrate due to stress, and the use of ceramic materials (the thickness of the substrate is thinner than that of the substrate which is made of the original ceramic materials completely and has a single structure) can be reduced, thereby reducing the production cost.
[ description of the drawings ]
FIG. 1 is a cross-sectional view of a test head of an embodiment of the present invention without contact with a device under test;
FIG. 2 is a cross-sectional view of a test head in contact with a device under test according to an embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 3 is an enlarged view of a portion of the probe of FIG. 2 in contact with the upper guide plate;
FIG. 4 is a perspective view of a probe according to an embodiment of the present invention;
| test head 100 | Probe 1 | Side 11 |
| Bump 12 | Groove 13 | Projection 14 |
| Partition board 2 | Space 21 | Side part 22 |
| Upper guide plate 3 | Firstupper guide plate 3a | Secondupper guide plate 3b |
| Upper support plate 33 | Upper opening 331 | Upper substrate 34 |
| Upper throughhole 341 | Lower guide plate 4 | Lower substrate 41 |
| Lower via 411 | Lower support plate 42 | Lower opening 421 |
| Space transformer 200 | Measuredelement 300 | |
[ detailed description ] embodiments
For a better understanding of the objects, structure and features of the invention, reference should now be made to the drawings and detailed description of the invention.
As shown in fig. 1 to 4, in an embodiment of the present invention, thetest head 100 includes a plurality of probes 1 (only 3 probes are shown in fig. 1 and 2 for clarity of the drawings, and actually, the number of the probes 1 is many), and anupper guide plate 3 and a lower guide plate 4 which are vertically separated by apartition plate 2 with a certain gap therebetween. Thepartition board 2, theupper guide board 3 and the lower guide board 4 are parallel to each other and independent from each other, and thepartition board 2, theupper guide board 3 and the lower guide board 4 are fixed together by screws.
Thepartition board 2 is provided with aspace 21 for accommodating a plurality of probes 1, and thepartition board 2 is provided with aside portion 22 at the periphery of thespace 21. Theupper guide plate 3 comprises an upper supportingplate 33 and anupper base plate 34 which are arranged in an up-and-down alignment mode, the front edge, the rear edge, the left edge and the right edge of the upper supportingplate 33 and theupper base plate 34 are correspondingly aligned, the upper supportingplate 33 and theupper base plate 34 are bonded with each other by resin to form a whole, and the upper supportingplate 33 and theupper base plate 34 have close thermal expansion coefficients. Go upbackup pad 33 and be equipped with and run through from top to bottom go up anupper shed 331 ofbackup pad 33,upper shed 331 supplies a plurality of probes 1 to pass,upper substrate 34 is equipped with a plurality of upper through-holes 341 that supply probe 1 to pass with probe 1 one-to-one,upper substrate 34's material is pottery, upper through-hole 341 adopts mechanical drilling or laser drilling to form. Thespacer 2 is made of invar having a lower coefficient of thermal expansion than theupper substrate 34.
The material of theupper support plate 33 is a metal material having stronger stress and tensile strength than the material of theupper substrate 34.
In this embodiment, when theupper substrate 34 is made of silicon nitride or other ceramic material with a thermal expansion coefficient between 1.5 and 3.9, the upper supportingplate 33 is made of invar with a mark number of 4J32 or 4J38 or 4J 36; when theupper substrate 34 is made of aluminum nitride or other ceramic material with a thermal expansion coefficient between 4 and 6, theupper support plate 33 is made of invar with a mark number of 4J29 or 4J33 or4J 42; when theupper substrate 34 is made of alumina or other ceramic material with a thermal expansion coefficient between 6 and 9, theupper support plate 33 is made of invar with a mark number of 4J33, 4J34, 4J45, 4J47, 4J48, 4J50, or 4J 36. Of course, in other embodiments, the material of theupper support plate 33 may be other metals besides invar, which has a coefficient of thermal expansion within +/-2.0 ppm/deg.c of the material of theupper substrate 34. In addition, in other embodiments, the material of thespacer 2 may also be a ceramic material, in which case the material of the upper support plate 33 (invar or other metal) has a coefficient of thermal expansion within +/-2.0ppm/° c of the material of theceramic spacer 2.
Theupper guide plate 3 has twoupper guide plates 3 disposed up and down, and is defined as a firstupper guide plate 3a and a secondupper guide plate 3b, the secondupper guide plate 3b is downwardly in contact with theside portion 22 of thepartition 2, and the firstupper guide plate 3a is located above the secondupper guide plate 3b and overlaps the secondupper guide plate 3b in the up-down direction. The firstupper guide plate 3a includes twoupper support plates 33 and anupper base plate 34, and theupper base plate 34 is located between the twosupport plates 33 in the up-down direction. The secondupper guide plate 3b includes anupper support plate 33 and anupper base plate 34, and theupper support plate 33 is located below theupper base plate 34.
The lower guide plate 4 is located below thepartition plate 2 and upwards contacts with theside portion 22 of thepartition plate 2, the lower guide plate 4 comprises twolower substrates 41 and twolower support plates 42 which are alternately arranged up and down, thelower substrates 41 are adhered to thelower support plates 42 to form a whole, thepartition plate 2 downwards contacts one of thelower support plates 42, thelower substrates 41 are provided with a plurality of lower throughholes 411 which are in one-to-one correspondence with the probes 1 and through which the probes 1 pass, thelower support plates 42 are provided withlower openings 421 which penetrate through thelower support plates 42 up and down, thelower openings 421 are through which the probes 1 pass, thelower substrates 41 are made of the same material as theupper substrates 34, and thelower support plates 42 are made of the same material as theupper support plates 33. In the up-down direction, front, rear, left, and right boundaries of theupper opening 331, thespace 21, and thelower opening 421 are aligned.
The upper end of the probe 1 is connected to a space transformer and the lower end is connected to a tested device (in this embodiment, the tested device is a wafer), the probe 1 has aside 11, abump 12 protrudes from theside 11 along the width direction of the probe 1, thebump 12 is located above theupper substrate 34, when testing, the probe 1 bends in thespace 21 and moves in the upper throughhole 341 and the lower throughhole 411, theside 11 contacts the hole wall of the upper throughhole 341 along the protruding direction of thebump 12, and the lower end of thebump 12 contacts the upper surface of theupper substrate 34. Agroove 13 connects the lower end of thebump 12 and theside surface 11, thegroove 13 is an escape angle when the probe 1 contacts theupper substrate 34, and the escape angle is used as a corner of thebump 12 and theside surface 11 will not interfere with the hole wall of the upper throughhole 341, so that the contact area between the probe 1 and theupper substrate 34 is increased. The probe 1 is also provided with abulge 14, thebulge 14 and thebump 12 are positioned at two opposite sides of the probe 1, and when theupper guide plate 3 turns downwards, thebulge 14 can clamp theupper guide plate 3 to prevent the probe 1 from falling.
In addition, the material of theupper support plate 33 and thelower support plate 42 according to the present invention is not limited to metal, but may be an organic material having stronger stress and tensile strength than theupper substrate 34 or thelower substrate 41, and the structure of the lower guide plate 4 according to the present invention is not limited to the 4-layered plate member, and may be a single structure of only one material or a structure of onelower substrate 41 and onelower support plate 42. Similarly, the firstupper guide 3a is not limited to twoupper support plates 33 and oneupper base plate 34, the secondupper guide 3b is not limited to oneupper support plate 33 and oneupper base plate 34, and the number of theupper guides 3 is not limited to 2, and may be one or more than two, and the like.
In conclusion, the guide plate is made of a structure of a plurality of plates and different materials, and the original part of ceramic materials is replaced by the metal materials or the organic materials with stronger stress and tensile strength, so that the stress and tensile strength of the guide plate are enhanced, the use amount of the ceramic materials is reduced, and the production cost is reduced.
The above detailed description is only for the purpose of illustrating the preferred embodiments of the present invention, and not for the purpose of limiting the scope of the present invention, therefore, all technical changes that can be made by applying the present specification and the drawings are included in the scope of the present invention.