Disco : Newly Developed Die Separator for Hard Materials Such as SiC
December 11, 2023 at 08:56 pm EST
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DISCO Corporation, a semiconductor manufacturing equipment manufacturer (Head Office: Ota-ku, Tokyo; President: Kazuma Sekiya), has developed DDS2020, a fully automatic die separator that supports Φ200 mm tape frames and achieves separation of hard materials including SiC and sapphire.
This equipment will be exhibited at SEMICON Japan 2023 (December 13-15, Tokyo Big Site).
DDS2020
Developmental Background
Stealth dicingTM is a dicing process where a modified layer is formed by focusing a laser beam inside the workpiece, following which stress is applied externally to separate it into die. As silicon wafers can be separated with a relatively small amount of stress, the die can be separated by simply expanding the dicing tape. On the other hand, materials that have high mechanical strength like SiC wafers that are widely used for power devices and sapphire wafers used for LED cannot be separated just by expansion. Thus, a breaking mechanism was necessary.
DDS2020 is a die separator that achieves separation of hard materials such as SiC and sapphire with a low load using a new breaking mechanism.
Features
New breaking mechanism that achieves low load separation
Load decreased by 40% compared to the conventional breaking mechanism
Breaking load measurement and graph display
Detects unseparated die and improves the yield
Automatic retry setting when unseparated die are detected is also available
Tape frame remounting*1 for breaking is no longer necessary
Eliminates remounting work and reduces tape costs
*1: Conventionally, Φ200 mm wafers needed to be remounted on a Φ300 mm tape frame when performing breaking. This is no longer necessary.
Future Schedule
To be exhibited at SEMICON Japan 2023
December 13 to 15, 2023 at Tokyo Big Site
Test cuts
Accepting requests
Sales release
Accepting orders
About DISCO Corporation
DISCO is a semiconductor equipment manufacturer that provides precision processing equipment, including dicing saws and grinders, and precision processing tools (blades and wheels) used for manufacturing semiconductors and electrical components. In addition to these products, as a result of pursuing optimal processing results for customers through the provision of the technology used in the equipment and tools, DISCO products and processing technologies have been widely adopted by device manufacturers and semiconductor subcontractors domestically and internationally. For details, please view the DISCO website www.disco.co.jp.
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Disco Corporation specializes in the manufacture and marketing of precision cutting, grinding and polishing machines, mainly for the semiconductor and electronic component industries, as well as for applications linked to generative artificial intelligence. Net sales break down by family of products as follows:
- precision machinery and equipment (64%): chain saws, laser engraving and cutting machines, grinders, polishers, wafer setters, die separators, planers and waterjet saws, etc.;
- precision processing tools and components (22%): cutting blades, dry polishing wheels and disks, diamond abrasive tools, etc.;
- other (14%): related equipment and accessories.
Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: Japan (12.2%), China (35.9%), Taiwan (11.9%), Korea (8.8%), Asia (8.4%), Americas (13.1%) and Europe (9.7%).