LEHIGH VALLEY, Pa.,
Feb. 20, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Air
Products (NYSE: APD) will introduce a break-through fluxless
soldering technology using electron attachment (EA) technology for
wafer level packaging applications at the IPC APEX Expo in
San Diego, Calif., from
February 27-March 1.
Air Products' patented EA technology uses activated hydrogen at
ambient pressure with a starting temperature as low as 100°C to
remove metal oxides from electroplated solder bumps on
semiconductor wafers and permit reflow of these bumps to obtain the
proper shape and size for interconnection onto a package or
substrate.
Expo attendees are invited to stop by Air Products' booth #3604
to learn about the benefits of the company's proprietary EA-based
technology. These benefits include enhanced bump reflow quality due
to flux induced solder voids and wafer contaminations that
naturally disappear; improved productivity from in-line process
capability, which reduces or eliminates post wafer cleaning and
furnace downtime for cleaning; lower cost of ownership for end
users due to reduction or elimination of costs associated with
cleaning equipment, cleaning solution, labor work and flux; and
fewer environmental issues due to elimination of organic vapors,
hazard residues and CO2 emissions.
Air Products has collaborated with Sikama International to offer
an electron attachment fluxless reflow system (EAUP1200). The
furnace is designed to remove metal oxides from solder bumps on UBM
wafers and solder caps from copper pillar wafers via the EA
technology. The activated hydrogen produces hydrogen anions, which
induces reflow of the solder to a final shape in the absence of
traditional flux processes.
In addition to industrial gases for integrated circuit assembly
processes, Air Products provides nitrogen reflow, inert nitrogen
control systems, wave soldering inerting kits and selective wave
soldering for printed circuit board assembly, as well as
environmental stress screening.
To learn more about the company's complete portfolio of
solutions for the electronics packaging industry, call 800-654-4567
(outside of the U.S. 610-706-4730) or visit
airproducts.com/electronicassembly.
About Air Products
Air Products (NYSE: APD) is a world-leading Industrial Gases
company in operation for over 75 years. The Company's core
industrial gases business provides atmospheric and process gases
and related equipment to manufacturing markets, including refining
and petrochemical, metals, electronics, and food and beverage. Air
Products is also the world's leading supplier of liquefied natural
gas process technology and equipment.
The Company had fiscal 2017 sales of $8.2
billion from continuing operations in 50 countries and has a
current market capitalization of about $35
billion. Approximately 15,000 passionate, talented and
committed employees from a diversity of backgrounds are driven by
Air Products' higher purpose to create innovative solutions that
benefit the environment, enhance sustainability and address the
challenges facing customers, communities and the world. For more
information, visit www.airproducts.com.
NOTE: This release may contain forward-looking statements
within the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities
Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements are
based on management's reasonable expectations and assumptions as of
the date of this release regarding important risk factors. Actual
performance and financial results may differ materially from
projections and estimates expressed in the forward-looking
statements because of many factors not anticipated by management,
including risk factors described in the Company's Form 10K for its
fiscal year ended September 30,
2017.
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