| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/L83882/01 |
| Title: |
JREI:ADVANCED MICROELECTRONICS PACKAGING AND INTERCONNECTION |
| Principal Investigator: |
Wherrett, Professor B |
| Other Investigators: |
| Walker, Professor A |
UNDERWOOD, Professor I |
Uttamchandani, Professor D |
| Binnie, Dr TD |
Desmulliez, Professor M |
Sibbett, Professor W |
| Stanley, Professor C |
Taghizadeh, Professor MR |
Sangster, Professor AJ |
| Dhariwal, Dr R |
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| Department: |
Physics |
| Organisation: |
Heriot-Watt University |
| Scheme: |
JREI |
| Starts: |
19 January 1998 |
Ends: |
18 January 2001 |
Value (£): |
82,415
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| EPSRC Research Topic Classifications: |
| Design & Testing Technology |
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| No relevance to Underpinning Sectors |
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A flip-chip bonding facility will be established and used to ernhance a number of existing university projects and to enable new projects.Six programmes of work have been identified at the outset, involving academics at six Scottish Universities. Other groups have also indicated an interest in obtaining time on the machine.Topics covered are:-Novel microelectronics packaging technology where flip-chip binding is seen as the way foward for low-cost, high density packaging with high clock rates.Smart-pixel array technology, where the exploitation of optical interconnection (either via fibres or free-space) requires the interfacing of microelectronic and optoelectronic chips, offering aggregate bandwidths off-chip in excess of 1THz.Focal-plane sensor-array technology with direct bonding of the array to the Si microelectronics.Microsystems packaging, where for medical implants minimum size is essential and where precise assembly alignment is critical.Complex micro-optic arrays for optical packaging.The project builds from existing research programmes, with funding from both governmental and non-governmental sources.The technology itself is at a stage where commercial machine can be purchased, with the flexibility to address the range of materials- combinations and geometries required by the above projects. Given the opportunities for novel structures and devices this is a key time for such a machine to be made available to the UK university sector.
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http://www.hw.ac.uk |