Driver IC and COG Package Design

Abstract

This paper investigates the interconnection between the driver integrated circuit (IC) and glass substrate via anisotropic conductive adhesive (ACF) of chip on glass package. The conductive particle deformation is evaluated using a novel method, optical microscope (OM) inspection. The proposed method is more convenient than the traditional approach using scanning electron microscopy applied in the manufacturing process. Interconnection performance is easily judged using OM, allowing poor interconnection between the driver IC and glass substrate to be screened out. Several types of driver ICs with different bump area ratios (total input bump area/total output bump area, input/output ratio) and length/width (L/W) ratios are designed in this experiment. The conductive particle deformations are investigated in this study. Driver ICs with L/W ratios larger than 15 have better conductive particle deformation uniformity at each position. The average deformation degree at the driver IC center position is larger than that at the side and edge positions. The deformation degree at the input position with a smaller bump area is better than that at the output position. The conductive resistance increases with the reliability testing time because of the thermal stress effect and softening of the ACF polymer material. The deformation degree is related to the conductive resistance of the interconnection. The conductive resistance is lower at the center and input positions with larger deformation degree.