Wafer processing method
AssigneeDisco Corporation
InventorNoboru TAKEDA
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Abstract
A wafer processing method of dividing a wafer into a plurality of chips along a plurality of division lines includes: a shield tunnel forming step of causing a focusing point of a pulsed laser beam of a wavelength having a transmitting property with respect to the wafer to be positioned inside the wafer and applying the pulsed laser beam, and then forming a plurality of shield tunnels each including a fine hole and an amorphous region shielding the fine hole along the division lines; and a wafer dividing step of applying an external force to the wafer and then dividing the wafer in which the shield tunnels are formed along the division lines, in which the pulsed laser beam is split to have two or more of the focusing points which are along a direction parallel to the division lines.
Claims3
A wafer processing method of dividing a wafer into a plurality of chips along a plurality of division lines, the method comprising:
- a shield tunnel forming step of causing a focusing point of a pulsed laser beam of a wavelength having a transmitting property with respect to the wafer to be positioned inside the wafer and applying the pulsed laser beam, and then forming a plurality of shield tunnels each including a fine hole and an amorphous region shielding the fine hole along the division lines;
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- a wafer dividing step of applying an external force to the wafer and then dividing the wafer in which the shield tunnels are formed along the division lines,
- wherein the pulsed laser beam is split to have two or more of the focusing points along a direction parallel to each of the division lines, and
- a distance between the focusing points adjacent to each other is smaller than 3 μm.
A wafer processing method of dividing a wafer into a plurality of chips along a plurality of division lines, the method comprising:
- a shield tunnel forming step of causing a focusing point of a pulsed laser beam of a wavelength having a transmitting property with respect to the wafer to be positioned inside the wafer to apply the pulsed laser beam, and then forming a plurality of shield tunnels each including a fine hole and an amorphous region shielding the fine hole along the division lines;
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- a wafer dividing step of applying an external force to the wafer and then dividing the wafer in which the shield tunnels are formed along the division lines,
- wherein the pulsed laser beam has a beam spot of an elliptical shape having a major axis extending along a direction parallel to each of the division lines.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.