Abstract

At ESREF 2008, the paper “Unusual defects, generated by wafer sawing: Diagnosis, mechanisms and how to distinguish from related failures” had won the Best Paper Award. In the meantime, new experiences were collected, related to new methods as laser sawing and its specific ESD risks and additional failure mechanisms as backside damage, charging of foils, pad corrosion and sawing residue damages. This paper explains in detail these failure sources, including detailed explanations on root causes and physical mechanisms as well as important hints for failure analysts how to distinguish related failure signatures from those, which look similar but are of other origin.

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