Patent ID: 7780064

Claim:
A method of forming a wire bond with a bonding tool operating a wire, the bonding tool including a tip, the method comprising the steps of: forming a ball bond onto a bonding surface; raising the bonding tool away from the ball bond to form a neck portion extending from a top of the ball bond; positioning a circumference of the tip of the bonding tool onto the neck portion positioned on the top of the ball bond; pressing the neck portion with the circumference of the tip to flatten and to form a downward depression in the neck portion of the wire directly on the top of the ball bond, such that a height of the neck portion at the depression is less than a height of the wire extending from the depression on another side of the depression than the ball bond, wherein the height of the neck portion at the depression is measured from a top surface of the neck portion at the depression to a closest bottom of the neck portion and the height of the wire extending from the depression is measured from a top surface of the wire extending from the depression to a closest bottom surface of the wire extending from the depression, without bonding the neck portion to the ball bond; and raising the bonding tool away from the ball bond; and thereafter forming a kink in the wire by a reverse motion in a direction away from a second bonding position.