Advanced Ceramics for
High-Tech Industries
Products : Components for the Microelectronics
Advanced ceramics offer significant advantages over metals and plastics for use in the microelectronics. Ceramics are considered for their high electrical insulation, full dimensional stability at high temperatures, no outgasing in vacuum and UHV environment, and resistance to temperature variations. Finally, the majority of ceramics show high thermal insulating properties but conversly a few of them offer high thermal dissipation. Using vacuum thin-film sputtering technologies, Microcertec can offer ceramic carriers with electrical patterns on which customers will be able to bond or braze. And glass-to-metal and ceramic-to-metal capabilities are also available with Microcertec so that hermetic assemblies such as microelectronic packages and electrcial feedthroughs can be offered to customers.
Applications
Ceramic components and microelectronic packages are used in the following applications :
- 3D interconnect devices
- packaging - 3D, 3DMID, CI3D
- RF & HF components - circulators, phase shifters...
- HF modules for antennas
- sensors
- ceramic packages
Products
Advanced ceramics will make it possible to manufacture the following products :
- insulators
- heat sinks
- 3D interconnect carriers
- substrates - bare and metallized
- loads, absorbers, dielectrics ferrites
- post-firing grinding of ceramic co-fired packages : achievement of a few-micron flatness on die area
Microcertec also offer custom-made hermetic packages :
- microelectronic packages with glass-to-metal feedthroughs
- low-weight packages with high thermal dissipation base made of Carfal or Carfcop material
Materials
Technical ceramics used for microelectronics applications are typicaly :
- alumina - or aluminium oxide - 94 to 99.8 %
- aluminium nitride - AlN
- quartz, glass, Macor ®
- ferrites, dielectrics, magnets
Thin-film metallising
In addition to be precision ground those ceramics can be metallized with vacuum thin-film sputtering.
For bonding or brazing your components, Microcertec can offer you the following thin-film metallizing :
- titanium - platinum - gold
- chromium - nickel - gold, NiCr-gold
- copper, aluminium, silver, indium, gold-tin
These coatings have the distinction to be applied on three-dimensional parts and be subsequently etched by laser micro-machining in order to create electrical patterns or electrical insulation pads.
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