Patent ID: 8110066

Claim:
A method of using an adhesive composition, said method comprising the steps of (1) applying the adhesive composition on a substrate by screen printing, (2) heating the applied adhesive composition at a temperature of from 60° C. to 200° C. for 3 hours to 1 minute to bring the adhesive composition to a B-stage, (3) placing a semiconductor chip on the adhesive composition, and (4) curing the adhesive composition, wherein the adhesive composition comprises (A) 100 parts by weight of an epoxy resin, (B) a curing agent in such an amount that an equivalent ratio of an epoxy-reactive group of the curing agent (B) to the epoxy group of the epoxy resin (A) ranges from 0.8 to 1.25, 0.1 to 10 parts by weight, per total 100 parts by weight of the components (A) and (B), of (C) a curing promoter, 10 to 150 parts by weight, per total 100 parts by weight of the components (A) and (B), of (D) an inorganic filler, 5 to 50 parts by weight, per total 100 parts by weight of the components (A) and (B), of (E) particles of a thermoplastic resin which is solid at 25° C., and 10 to 100 parts by weight, per total 100 parts by weight of the components (A) and (B), of (F) silicone powder having a particle size at cumulative 50% (d 50 ), measured by a laser light diffraction method, of from 1 to 50 μm, wherein the amounts of the inorganic filler (D) and the silicone powder (F) are such that the composition has a viscosity, measured with an E-type viscometer, of from 100 to 500 Pa·s at 25° C.