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Creswick <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 24 Jun 1999 08:09:42 -0500
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John,

From a metallurgical standpoint this is not a good idea.

However, the lower temperature your product operates at, the longer the
gold/tin/lead intermetallics will survive, but it is still a matter of time
before you see changes in interfacial resistance, strength, etc.  The wedge
(2nd) bond will typically fail before the ball (1st), due to the differences
in cross-sectional gold thickness (volume) present in the bond.

Glob-top, and cure of the glob top, will also add additional stresses to the
system.

Ultrasonic aluminum wedge bonding to the bare copper, or to nickel plating
is a far more reliable metallurgy - albeit slower bonding.  If given a
choice, I would flip chip it.

Steve

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