Patent ID: 7184909

Claim:
A method for mounting semiconductor chips on substrates using a bondhead having a chip gripper, whereby the chip gripper has a shaft with a longitudinal drill hole to which vacuum can be applied and a suction organ with a suction opening and whereby the chip gripper can be rotated on a rotational axis, the method comprising calibrating a gripper axis running through the suction opening of the suction organ, the calibrating comprising: illuminating the longitudinal drill hole of the shaft of the chip gripper so that a light beam emerges from the suction opening of the suction organ, and determining co-ordinates (x m , y m ) for a number, n, different rotary positions of the chip gripper, whereby an index, m, assumes the values 1 to n, by: moving the bondhead along a first travel path over a first edge of a light-sensitive area of a stationary arranged photodetector and determining a first co-ordinate x a from an output signal of the photodetector and a first position signal of the bondhead and moving the bond head along a second travel path over a second edge opposite the first edge of the light-sensitive area of the photodetector and determining a second co-ordinate x b from the output signal of the photodetector and the first position signal of the bondhead and calculating a co-ordinate x m as x m = x a + x b 2 , and moving the bondhead along a third travel path over a third edge of the light-sensitive area of the photodetector and determining a first co-ordinate y a from the output signal of the photodetector and a second position signal of the bondhead and moving the bondhead along a fourth travel path over a fourth edge opposite the third edge of the light-sensitive area of the photodetector and determining a second co-ordinate y b from the output signal of the photodetector and the second position signal of the bondhead and calculating a co-ordinate y m as y m = y a + y b 2 ⁢ ; and determining a centre (x c , y c ) and a radius of a circle by means of a mathematical fit so that the circle approximates to the co-ordinates (x m , y m ) determined for the n rotary positions of the chip gripper, whereby the centre (x c , y c ) of the circle characterises the position of the rotational axis, and determining a vector that characterises the position of the gripper axis relative to the position of the rotational axis; and the method further comprising mounting one semiconductor chip after the other on a substrate by moving the bondhead to a first position for picking the semiconductor chip from a wafer table wherein the gripper axis points towards a desired pick point and moving the bondhead to a second position for placing the semiconductor chip on the substrate wherein the gripper axis points towards a desired place point, the first position and the second position depending in part on the vector.