Demonstration of cutting features into 1 5 mm thick silicon wafers using a laser micromachining system equipped with a qcw laser.
Laser cutting silicon wafer.
However laser ablation has its own problems.
Dicing of silicon wafers may also be performed by a laser based technique the so called stealth dicing process.
Laser cutting of silicon wafers is possible in all sizes and thicknesses with feature sizes as small as 20 microns.
It works as a two stage process in which defect regions are firstly introduced into the wafer by scanning the beam along intended cutting lines and secondly an underlying carrier membrane is expanded to induce fracture.
Material thickness up to 1mm.
The figure shows 700 µm wafer downsizing top view and side view.
Solutions are available for machining smaller diameter wafers from larger ones solar cell downsizing or silicon stencil cutting.
The same system can be used to downsize larger silicon wafers for use in smaller format processing tools.
Sapphire silicon wafer cutter.
Laserod s systems division builds and integrates a full line of diode and fiber laser micromachining equipment for uses that include silicon wafer resizing resistor trimming cutting thin metals and plastics scribing substrates of alumina and silicon resistor trimming and patterning thin films such as ito on glass or plastic.
We tried cutting a silicon wafer with fabool laser mini 1 6w and 3 5w model.
Vaporizing the wafer with a laser along the dicing path creates molten debris and microcracks.
Cut features are round holes with no cracking or rough edges.
For silicon wafers less than 100 μm thick laser ablation offers an alternative to the blade technique which is too powerful for the delicate thin wafers.
All that is required is a drawing to getting started.
Blackstar is a wafer dicing system utilizing fantom width laser dicing technology fwldt invented and patented by laser photonics and modified to accommodate the requirements of a silicon wafer singulation process without affecting the existent dicing method processes or procedures.