LED Knowledge Base: A Brief Introduction to the Manufacturing Process of LED Wafers

1. LED wafer inspection

Microscopic examination: Whether there is mechanical damage on the surface of the material and whether the size and electrode size of the lockhill wafer and the electrode size meet the process requirements.

2.LED expansion

Since the LED wafers are still closely spaced (about 0.1 mm) after dicing, it is not conducive to the operation of the post process. The film of the viscous crystal is expanded by a film expander to stretch the pitch of the LED wafer to about 0.6 mm. Manual expansion can also be used, but it is easy to cause problems such as wafer drop and waste.

3.LED dispensing

Place silver glue or insulating glue on the corresponding position of the LED bracket. For GaAs, SiC conductive substrates, red, yellow, and yellow-green wafers with back electrodes are made of silver paste. For blue and green LED wafers with sapphire insulating substrates, insulating paste is used to fix the wafer.

The difficulty of the process lies in the control of the amount of glue, and there are detailed technical requirements in the height of the glue and the position of the glue. Since silver glue and insulating glue have strict requirements in storage and use, the wake-up, stirring and use time of silver glue are all matters that must be paid attention to in the process.

4.LED preparation glue

In contrast to dispensing, the glue is applied to the back electrode of the LED with a glue machine, and then the LED with silver glue on the back is mounted on the LED holder. The efficiency of the preparation glue is much higher than that of the dispensing, but not all products are suitable for the preparation process.

5.LED hand-piercing

The expanded LED wafer (with or without glue) is placed on the fixture of the lancet table, and the LED bracket is placed under the fixture, and the LED wafers are punctured one by one under the microscope with needles. Hand-made thorns have the advantage over automatic loading, making it easy to change different wafers at any time, for products that require multiple wafers.

6.LED automatic mounting

The automatic loading is actually a combination of two steps of glue (dispensing) and mounting the wafer. First, put silver glue (insulating glue) on the LED bracket, and then use the vacuum nozzle to suck the LED wafer to the moving position. Placed in the corresponding bracket position. In the process of automatic loading, the equipment should be familiar with the operation and programming of the equipment, and at the same time adjust the glue and installation accuracy of the equipment. In the selection of the nozzle, the bakelite nozzle should be used as much as possible to prevent damage to the surface of the LED wafer. In particular, the blue and green chips must be made of bakelite. Because the steel nozzle will scratch the current diffusion layer on the surface of the wafer.

7.LED sintering

The purpose of sintering is to cure the silver paste, and the sintering requires monitoring of the temperature to prevent batch defects. The temperature at which the silver paste is sintered is generally controlled at 150 ° C and the sintering time is 2 hours. According to the actual situation, it can be adjusted to 170 ° C for 1 hour. The insulating glue is generally 150 ° C for 1 hour.

The silver-glued sintering oven must be opened and replaced with a sintered product within 2 hours (or 1 hour) according to the process requirements, and should not be opened at will. Sintering ovens must not be used for other purposes to prevent contamination.

8.LED pressure welding

The purpose of pressure welding is to lead the electrodes onto the LED wafer to complete the connection of the inner and outer leads of the product.

There are two kinds of LED pressure welding processes: gold wire ball bonding and aluminum wire pressure welding. The process of aluminum wire bonding is to first press the first point on the LED wafer electrode, then pull the aluminum wire over the corresponding bracket, and press the second point to tear the aluminum wire. The gold wire ball bonding process burns the ball before the first point, and the rest of the process is similar.

Pressure welding is a key link in LED packaging technology. The main requirements of the process are the pressure welding of gold wire (aluminum wire) arch shape, solder joint shape, and tensile force.

9.LED sealant

LED packaging is mainly a little glued, potted, molded. Basically, the difficulty of process control is bubbles, lack of materials, and black spots. The design is mainly for the selection of materials, and the combination of good epoxy and brackets is selected. (General LEDs cannot pass the air tightness test)

LED Dispensing TOP-LED and Side-LED are available in dispensing packages. Manual dispensing requires a high level of operation (especially white LEDs). The main difficulty is the control of the amount of dispensing, as the epoxy thickens during use. The dispensing of white LEDs also has the problem of phosphor precipitation leading to chromatic aberration of light.

LED potting package Lamp-LED package is in the form of potting. The potting process is to first inject liquid epoxy into the LED molding cavity, then insert the pressure-bonded LED bracket into the oven to cure the epoxy, and then remove the LED from the cavity to form.

The LED molded package puts the pressure-welded LED bracket into the mold, molds the upper and lower molds with a hydraulic machine and vacuums them, and puts the solid epoxy into the inlet of the injection line to press the hydraulic ejector into the mold rubber path. The epoxy enters each LED forming slot along the glue path and cures.

10. LED curing and post curing

Curing refers to the curing of the encapsulating epoxy, which is typically cured at 135 ° C for 1 hour. The molded package is typically at 150 ° C for 4 minutes. Post-cure is to allow the epoxy to fully cure while thermally aging the LED. Post-cure is important to increase the bond strength of the epoxy to the support (PCB). The general conditions are 120 ° C for 4 hours.

11.LED cutting and dicing

Since the LEDs are connected together in a production process (not a single one), the Lamp packaged LED uses a rib to cut the ribs of the LED holder. SMD-LED is on a PCB board and requires a dicing machine to complete the separation.

12. LED test

Test the photoelectric parameters of the LED, verify the external dimensions, and sort the LED products according to customer requirements.

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