Laser soldering of surface mount components and memory chips

T. J. Glynn, A. Flanagan, A. Conneely, G. Lowe

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Abstract

Laser soldering has advantages of localized heating and small focused spot size which make it an attractive technique for bonding temperature sensitive surface mount device (SMD) with small lead pitch onto a printed wiring board (PWB). Using a Nd:YAG laser, we have application - a quad ceramic chip with 224 leads (with 0.025″ lead spacing) and 16-pin memory chips (with 0.020″ spacing). Laser soldering was used to bond the components, without solder paste, onto appropriate pre-tinned substrates. Thermal modelling of the process was carried out, using a commercial finite element package. Miniature thermocouples were also used to verify model predictions by measuring the temperature profiles in real time. The laser bonder will be incorporated into a robot-controlled station with an intelligent vision system for component placement/inspection.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
EditorsDave Farson, William Steen, Isamu Miyamoto
PublisherPubl by Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers
Pages405-414
Number of pages10
ISBN (Print)0912035498
Publication statusPublished - 1993
EventICALEO Laser Materials Processing - Orlando, FL, USA
Duration: 25 Oct 199229 Oct 1992

Publication series

NameProceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume1990
ISSN (Print)0277-786X

Conference

ConferenceICALEO Laser Materials Processing
CityOrlando, FL, USA
Period25/10/9229/10/92

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