Electronic component and leadframe for producing the component
AssigneeInfineon Technologies AG
InventorsGeorg Ernst, Horst Groeninger, Simon Jerebic, Thomas Zeiler
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Abstract
An electronic component includes a semiconductor chip and a leadframe. The leadframe includes a metal coating pattern on its underside to facilitate the application of solder to the electronic component. The metal coating pattern includes wetting regions that are wettable with solder material and anti-wetting regions that are unwettable with solder material, and the electronic component includes solder deposits formed on the wetting regions on the underside of the component.
Claims10
An electronic component comprising:
- a chip island including a top side and an underside that opposes the top side;
- a semiconductor chip including contact surfaces disposed on an active top side of the semiconductor chip and a back surface that opposes the active top side and is arranged on the top side of the chip island;
- flat conductors arranged to surround the chip island, the flat conductors including top sides and undersides opposing the top sides, the top sides of the flat conductors including contact connection surfaces;
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- electrical connections extending between the contact surfaces of the semiconductor chip and the contact connection surfaces of the flat conductors;
- wherein the semiconductor chip, the electrical connections and the top sides of the flat conductors and of the chip island are embedded in a plastic encapsulation compound, and the undersides of the flat conductors and of the chip island including solder deposits and anti-wetting regions that surround the solder deposits and are unwettable by solder material.
A leadframe for producing a plurality of electronic components, the leadframe comprising:
- component positions arranged in rows and columns;
- a plurality of chip islands being arranged in the component positions;
- a plurality of semiconductor chips, each semiconductor chip being disposed on a corresponding chip island;
- wherein each chip island is surrounded by flat conductors, the flat conductors including top sides with contact connection surfaces that have a bondable coating, each of the chip islands and the flat conductors includes an underside with a metal coating pattern that comprises anti-wetting regions formed from a metal that is unwettable by solder material and wetting regions formed from a metal that is wettable by solder material, the wetting regions being surrounded by the anti-wetting regions.
The leadframe of claim 7, wherein the anti-wetting regions of the metal coating pattern comprise one of nickel, a nickel alloy and a stainless steel alloy.
A method of forming and processing a leadframe including a plurality of component positions, the method comprising:
- providing a metal strip, patterning the metal strip to form component positions arranged in rows and columns, each component position including a chip island that is surrounded by flat conductors;
- applying a metal layer that is unwettable by solder material to an underside of the patterned metal strip;
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- patterning the metal layer to form anti-wetting regions that are unwettable by solder material while leaving exposed regions of the metal strip that are not patterned by the metal layer and which form wetting regions that are wettable by solder material so as to facilitate the formation of solder deposits at the wetting regions.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.