Patent ID: 7696067

Claim:
A method of manufacturing devices by which a wafer having the devices formed in a plurality of regions demarcated by planned dividing lines formed in a grid pattern on a face-side surface of said wafer is divided along said planned dividing lines into the individual devices having an adhesive film for die bonding attached to a back-side surface of each said device, said method comprising: a laser beam-machined groove forming step of irradiating said wafer with a laser beam, which has such a wavelength as to be absorbed in said wafer, from the back side of said wafer on said back-side surface along said planned dividing lines, so as to form laser beam-machined grooves along said planned dividing lines extending from said back-side surface to a predetermined depth of said wafer; an etching step of etching said back-side surface of said wafer having been subjected to said laser beam-machined groove forming step, so as to remove denatured layers formed at processed surfaces of said laser beam-machined grooves; an adhesive film attaching step of attaching an adhesive film to said back-side surface of said wafer having been subjected to said etching step, and adhering the adhesive film side to a surface of a dicing tape attached to an annular frame; and an adhesive film rupturing step of expanding said dicing tape so as to rupture said adhesive film along the individual devices.