Patent ID: 10163675

Abstract:
Methods and apparatuses for stacking devices in an integrated circuit assembly are provided. A tray for supporting multiple dies of a semiconductor material enables both topside processing and bottom side processing of the dies. The dies can be picked and placed for bonding on a substrate or on die stacks without flipping the dies, thereby avoiding particulate debris from the diced edges of the dies from interfering and contaminating the bonding process. In an implementation, a liftoff apparatus directs a pneumatic flow of gas to lift the dies from the tray for bonding to a substrate, and to previously bonded dies, without flipping the dies. An example system allows processing of both top and bottom surfaces of the dies in a single cycle in preparation for bonding, and then pneumatically lifts the dies up to a target substrate so that topsides of the dies bond to bottom sides of dies of the previous batch, in an efficient and flip-free assembly of die stacks.