Patent ID: 8349652

Claim:
A method for manufacturing a three-dimensional integrated circuit by stacking a chip on a supporting substrate, the method comprising: coating a plurality of temporary attachment areas formed on a transcription substrate with a liquid; releasing a plurality of chips onto a plurality of liquid drops divided by each of the temporary attachment areas and positioning each of the chips at each of the temporary attachment areas by using surface tension of the liquid; temporarily attaching each of the chips to each of the temporary attachment areas by evaporating the liquid between each of the chips and each of the temporary attachment areas; moving the transcription substrate to which the chips are temporarily attached toward the supporting substrate, and finally attaching the chips' surfaces opposite to surfaces temporarily attached to the transcription substrate to a plurality of final attachment areas of the supporting substrate or to a plurality of stacked chips on the final attachment areas such that adhesive strength between each of the chips and the supporting substrate or between each of the chips and each of the stacked chips on the supporting substrate is greater than adhesive strength between each of the chips and the transcription substrate; and detaching the chips from the transcription substrate by moving the transcription substrate away from the supporting substrate while the chips are attached to the supporting substrate or the stacked chips on the supporting substrate.