Electrode connection structure, lead frame, and method for forming electrode connection structure

Abstract

[Problem] To provide an electrode connection structure and the like in which a plurality of elongated leads are arranged in parallel and a longitudinal side surface of each lead is connected to an electrode by plating treatment with high quality. [Solution] An electrode connection structure in which a semiconductor chip 12 electrode and/or a substrate electrode is connected to a plurality of elongated leads 11 of a lead frame 10 by plating. The plurality of elongated leads 11 of the lead frame 10 are arranged in parallel, and a longitudinal side surface of each lead 11 is connected to the semiconductor chip 12 electrode and/or the substrate electrode by plating. At a connection portion of a first connection surface 13 of the semiconductor chip 12 electrode and/or the substrate electrode, the first connection surface 13 being connected to the leads 11, and a second connection surface 14 in the longitudinal side surface of each lead 11, the second connection surface 14 being connected to the first connection surface 13, a distance between the first connection surface 13 and the second connection surface 14 continuously increases from an edge portion 15 of the second connection surface 14, the edge portion 15 being in contact with the first connection surface 13, toward an outer portion 16 of the second connection surface 14.

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