Low-Temperature Wafer Bonding Based on Gold-Induced Crystallization of Amorphous Silicon

摘要

Low-temperature wafer bonding based on gold-induced crystallization of amorphous silicon has been investigated for the first time in this letter. A bonding yield of 97% and a shear strength of 10.5 MPa were achieved when bonding the oxide wafers by the bonding method at 400 $^{circ}hbox{C}$ applying 0.8-MPa pressure for 30 min. The microstructure analysis indicated that the gold-induced crystallization process leads to big Si grains extending across the bonding interface and Au filling the other regions of the bonding interface, which result to a strong and void-free bonding interface. More importantly, this bonding method can be used for other substrate materials.