XCom Wireless is a small business specializing in RF MEMS-enabled tunable filters and phase shifters for next-generation communications systems. XCom has developed a high-yielding flip-chip assembly and packaging technique for implementing RF MEMS devices into fully-packaged chip-scale hybrid integrated circuitry for radio and microwave frequency applications through 25 GHz. This paper discusses the packaging approach employed, performance and reliability aspects, and lessons learned. The packaging is similar to a hybrid module approach, with discrete RF MEMS component dies flip-chipped into larger packages containing large-area integrated passives. The first level of interconnect is a pure gold flip chip for high yield strength and reliability with small dies. The use of first-level flip-chip and second-level BGAs allows the extremely large bandwidth MEMS devices to maintain high performance characteristics.
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ASME 2005 Pacific Rim Technical Conference and Exhibition on Integration and Packaging of MEMS, NEMS, and Electronic Systems collocated with the ASME 2005 Heat Transfer Summer Conference
July 17–22, 2005
San Francisco, California, USA
Conference Sponsors:
- Heat Transfer Division and Electronic and Photonic Packaging Division
ISBN:
0-7918-4200-2
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Flip-Chip Assembly of RF MEMS for Microwave Hybrid Circuitry
Daniel J. Hyman,
Daniel J. Hyman
XCom Wireless, Inc., Signal Hill, CA
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Roger Kuroda
Roger Kuroda
XCom Wireless, Inc., Signal Hill, CA
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Daniel J. Hyman
XCom Wireless, Inc., Signal Hill, CA
Roger Kuroda
XCom Wireless, Inc., Signal Hill, CA
Paper No:
IPACK2005-73419, pp. 2053-2056; 4 pages
Published Online:
March 4, 2009
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Hyman, DJ, & Kuroda, R. "Flip-Chip Assembly of RF MEMS for Microwave Hybrid Circuitry." Proceedings of the ASME 2005 Pacific Rim Technical Conference and Exhibition on Integration and Packaging of MEMS, NEMS, and Electronic Systems collocated with the ASME 2005 Heat Transfer Summer Conference. Advances in Electronic Packaging, Parts A, B, and C. San Francisco, California, USA. July 17–22, 2005. pp. 2053-2056. ASME. https://doi.org/10.1115/IPACK2005-73419
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