Jim- This one reference, of many available, comes to mind since it's on my desk, open to the flip chip section: Chap 8, "Chip-to-Package Interconnections", of text "Microelectronics Packaging Handbook", Volume II ("Semiconductor Packaging"), 2nd Edition (1997), Editors Rao Tummala, Eugene Rymaszewski, and Alan Klopfenstein"; Chapter 8 Authors are Paul Totta-IBM, Subash Khadpe-STC, Nicholas Koopman-MCNC, Timothy Reiley-IBM, and Michael Sheaffer-Kulicke & Soffa. --57 pages in the chapter cover flip chip history and technology, especially Section 8.3. One of the flip chip references at the end of the Chapter was co-authored by Totta in 1971! A good intro to flip chip. ALSO- See numerous papers on flip chip solder and underfill mechanics, reliability, etc., in last 2 or 3 years of ASME's Journal of Electronic Packaging. (For example, "Two Test Specimens for Determining the Interfacial Fracture Toughness in Flip-Chip Assemblies", ASME Jour. Elec. Pkg., Vol.120, No.2, June 1998, p.150) Good luck. -Michael Alderete You wrote... ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 15:38:00 -0400 From: Jim Marsico 516-595-5879 <[log in to unmask]> Subject: assy: flip chip Looking for books, papers, etc., on flip chip technology. Anything from basics to advanced processes. Thanks, Jim Marsico AIL Systems Inc. (516) 595-5879 [log in to unmask] ------------------------------ ------------------------------ ################################################################ TechNet E-Mail Forum provided as a free service by IPC using LISTSERV 1.8c ################################################################ To subscribe/unsubscribe, send a message to [log in to unmask] with following text in the body: To subscribe: SUBSCRIBE TechNet <your full name> To unsubscribe: SIGNOFF TechNet ################################################################ Please visit IPC's web site (http://www.ipc.org) "On-Line Services" section for additional information. For technical support contact Hugo Scaramuzza at [log in to unmask] or 847-509-9700 ext.312 ################################################################