Abstract
In stealth dicing (SD), a permeable nanosecond laser is focused inside a silicon wafer and scanned horizontally. A thermal shock wave is propagated every pulse toward the side to which the laser is irradiated, then a high dislocation density layer is formed inside a wafer after the thermal shock wave propagation. In our previous study, it was supposed that an internal crack whose initiation is a dislocation is propagated when the thermal shock wave by the next pulse overlaps with this layer partially. In this study, a two-dimensional thermal elasticity analysis based on the fracture mechanics was conducted. The internal crack propagation was analyzed by calculating the stress intensity factor at the crack tips and comparing with a threshold of that. As a result, validity of the previous hypothesis was suggested.
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