Patent ID: 7217646

Claim:
Method for connecting an integrated circuit, in particular a chip or a wafer or a hybrid, to a substrate, which has the following steps: (a) providing of a first electrical contact structure on a first main area of the integrated circuit; (b) providing of a corresponding second electrical contact structure on a second main area of the substrate; (c) at least one of the contact structures, the first electrical contact structure or the second electrical contact structure, being elastic; (d) placing of the first electrical contact structure onto the corresponding second electrical contact structure, so that both are in electrical contact and under mechanical compression pressure; and (e) connecting of a region of the main area surrounding the first electrical contact structure to a corresponding region surrounding the second electrical contact structure of the second main area by an adhesive layer, so that the first electrical contact structure and/or the second electrical contact structure are compressed in the connected state; a region of the adhesive layer is recessed in a region around the elastic one of the first contact structure and the second contact structure such that spacing is provided between the adhesive layer and the elastic one of the first contact structure and the second contact structure.