Patent ID: 8191246

Claim:
A method for manufacturing a plurality of miniaturized spring contacts on a substrate, said spring contacts each comprising an electrically conducting core member being stress-free and continuously presented through each entire spring contact, and a coating layer enveloped on all exposed surface of said core member, said core member having a tip portion pointing up vertically at the farthest distance away from the substrate, said tip portion split into two first tilted portions, said first tilted portions each extended to a horizontal portion, said horizontal portion each extended to a second tilted portion, said second tilted portion each further extended to a horizontal trace, said horizontal trace each being anchored on the said substrate, and one said horizontal trace being connected to a through substrate electrical connect, the method comprising the steps of: bonding a first prime silicon wafer with a second highly doped prime silicon wafer with a bonding SiO 2 layer in the bonding interface; and forming a plurality of through wafer electrical connects on said second highly doped silicon wafer; and forming a plurality of spring contour shapes using a variety of techniques, said spring contour shapes each having a outstanding portion at top, a plateau next to each side of said outstanding portion, a slope next to each said plateau, and a base next to each said slope, the top of said bases is said bonding SiO 2 layer; and forming a plurality of first openings on said bonding SiO 2 layer to reveal said through wafer electrical connects; and forming a plurality of routing metal traces to connect to said through wafer electrical connects through said first openings; and forming an insulating layer and a plurality of second openings in said insulating layer to reveal said routing metal traces; and forming a plurality of spring metal stripes over said plurality of spring contour shapes, said spring metal stripes each becoming said core member of one said spring contact; and releasing said plurality of the spring metal stripes by dissolving the underlying leftover material of said first prime silicon wafer; and electroplating or electroless plating of said plurality of the spring metal stripes with one or more layers to envelope all exposed surface of said plurality of the spring metal stripes.