• DocumentCode
    1464060
  • Title

    RF W-band wafer-to-wafer transition

  • Author

    Herrick, Katherine J. ; Katehi, Linda P B

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Michigan Univ., Ann Arbor, MI, USA
  • Volume
    49
  • Issue
    4
  • fYear
    2001
  • fDate
    4/1/2001 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    600
  • Lastpage
    608
  • Abstract
    Multiwafer silicon designs must provide an avenue for electrical signals to flow from wafer to wafer. For this purpose, a two-layer electrical bond is proposed to provide electrical connection between two coplanar waveguides printed on the adjacent faces of two vertically stacked silicon wafers. In addition to serving as a versatile low-temperature thermocompression wafer bond, loss of approximately 0.1 dB is measured for this novel compact packaged wafer-to-wafer transition from 75 to 110 GHz
  • Keywords
    MIMIC; coplanar waveguides; elemental semiconductors; integrated circuit packaging; silicon; wafer bonding; 0.1 dB; 75 to 110 GHz; Si; W-band; coplanar waveguides; electrical connection; electrical signals; low-temperature thermocompression wafer bond; multiwafer designs; two-layer electrical bond; vertically stacked wafers; wafer-to-wafer transition; Circuits; Diffusion bonding; Glass; Micromechanical devices; Packaging; Power generation economics; Radio frequency; Silicon; Temperature; Wafer bonding;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Microwave Theory and Techniques, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9480
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/22.915432
  • Filename
    915432