“Copper wire bonding has got attracted attention over gold wire bonding due to its lower cost. However, despite many unique aspects and properties of copper wire bonding, corrosion of copper wire ...
Designed for nanometer-scale silicon ICs, a new wire-bond chip-packaging process–called Pad on I/O–by chip manufacturer LSI Logic (Milpitas, CA) places bond pads directly on active copper/low-K ...