Patents by Inventor Tung-Han Chuang

Tung-Han Chuang has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 12148725
    Abstract: A bonding structure is provided, including a first substrate; a second substrate disposed opposite the first substrate; a first bonding layer disposed on the first substrate; a second bonding layer disposed on the second substrate and opposite the first bonding layer; and a silver feature disposed between the first bonding layer and the second bonding layer. The silver feature includes a silver nano-twinned structure including parallel twin boundaries. The silver nano-twinned structure includes 90% or more [111] crystal orientation. A method for forming a bonding structure is also provided. Each of steps of forming a first silver feature and second silver feature includes sputtering or evaporation coating. Negative bias ion bombardment is applied to the first silver feature and second silver feature during sputtering or evaporation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: AG MATERIALS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tung-Han Chuang, Hsing-Hua Tsai
  • Patent number: 11837568
    Abstract: A bonding structure is provided, wherein the bonding structure includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a first adhesive layer, a second adhesive layer, and a silver feature. The second substrate is disposed opposite to the first substrate. The first adhesive layer is disposed on the first substrate. The second adhesive layer is disposed on the second substrate and opposite the first adhesive layer. The silver feature is disposed between the first adhesive layer and the second adhesive layer. The silver feature includes a silver nano-twinned structure that includes twin boundaries that are arranged in parallel. The parallel-arranged twin boundaries include 90% or more [111] crystal orientation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: AG MATERIALS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tung-Han Chuang, Hsing-Hua Tsai
  • Publication number: 20230090030
    Abstract: A nano-twinned structure on a metallic thin film surface is provided. The nano-twinned structure includes a substrate, an adhesive-lattice-buffer layer over the substrate, and a metallic thin film including Ag, Cu, Au, Pd or Ni over the adhesive-lattice-buffer layer. The bottom region of the metallic thin film has equi-axial coarse grains. The surface region of the metallic thin film contains parallel-arranged high-density twin boundaries (?3+?9) with a pitch from 1 nm to 100 nm. The quantity of the parallel-arranged twin boundaries is 50% to 80% of the total quantity of twin boundaries in the cross-sectional view of the metallic thin film. The parallel-arranged twin boundaries include 30% to 90% [111] crystal orientation. The nano-twinned structure on the metallic thin film surface is formed through a post-deposition ion bombardment on the evaporated metallic thin film surface after the evaporation process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2022
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Inventors: Tung-Han CHUANG, Po-Ching WU, Pei-Ing LEE, Hsing-Hua TSAI
  • Publication number: 20230057312
    Abstract: A metallic nano-twinned thin film structure and a method for forming the same are provided. The metallic nano-twinned thin film structure includes a substrate, an adhesive-lattice-buffer layer over the substrate, and a single-layer or multi-layer metallic nano-twinned thin film over the adhesive-lattice-buffer layer. The metallic nano-twinned thin film includes parallel-arranged twin boundaries (?3+?9). In a cross-sectional view of the metallic nano-twinned thin film, the parallel-arranged twin boundaries account for 30% to 90% of total twin boundaries. The parallel-arranged twin boundaries include 80% to 99% of crystal orientation [111]. The single-layer metallic nano-twinned thin film includes copper, gold, palladium or nickel. The multi-layer metallic nano-twinned thin films are respectively composed of silver, copper, gold, palladium or nickel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2021
    Publication date: February 23, 2023
    Inventors: Tung-Han CHUANG, Po-Ching WU, Pei-Ing LEE, Hsing-Hua TSAI
  • Publication number: 20230027664
    Abstract: A bonding structure is provided, including a first substrate; a second substrate disposed opposite the first substrate; a first bonding layer disposed on the first substrate; a second bonding layer disposed on the second substrate and opposite the first bonding layer; and a silver feature disposed between the first bonding layer and the second bonding layer. The silver feature includes a silver nano-twinned structure including parallel twin boundaries. The silver nano-twinned structure includes 90% or more [111] crystal orientation. A method for forming a bonding structure is also provided. Each of steps of forming a first silver feature and second silver feature includes sputtering or evaporation coating. Negative bias ion bombardment is applied to the first silver feature and second silver feature during sputtering or evaporation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2022
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Inventors: Tung-Han CHUANG, Hsing-Hua TSAI
  • Publication number: 20220388092
    Abstract: A method for forming a bonding structure is provided, including providing a first metal, wherein the first metal has a first absolute melting point. The method includes forming a silver nano-twinned layer on the first metal. The silver nano-twinned layer includes parallel-arranged twin boundaries. The parallel-arranged twin boundaries include 90% or more [111] crystal orientation. The method includes oppositely bonding the silver nano-twinned layer to a second metal. The second metal has a second absolute melting point. The bonding of the silver nano-twinned layer and the second metal is performed at a temperature of 300° C. to half of the first absolute melting point or 300° C. to half of the second absolute melting point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2022
    Publication date: December 8, 2022
    Inventors: Tung-Han CHUANG, Po-Ching WU, Pei-Ing LEE, Yu-Chang LAI, Hsing-Hua TSAI, Chung-Hsin CHOU
  • Publication number: 20220344298
    Abstract: A bonding structure is provided, wherein the bonding structure includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a first adhesive layer, a second adhesive layer, and a silver feature. The second substrate is disposed opposite to the first substrate. The first adhesive layer is disposed on the first substrate. The second adhesive layer is disposed on the second substrate and opposite the first adhesive layer. The silver feature is disposed between the first adhesive layer and the second adhesive layer. The silver feature includes a silver nano-twinned structure that includes twin boundaries that are arranged in parallel. The parallel-arranged twin boundaries include 90% or more [111] crystal orientation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2021
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Inventors: Tung-Han CHUANG, Hsing-Hua TSAI
  • Publication number: 20220336407
    Abstract: A die bonding structure is provided. The die bonding structure includes a chip, an adhesive layer under the chip, a bonding layer under the adhesive layer, and a heat dissipation substrate under the bonding layer. The bonding layer includes a silver nano-twinned thin film, which has parallel-arranged twin boundaries. The parallel-arranged twin boundaries include at least 90% of [111] crystal orientation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2021
    Publication date: October 20, 2022
    Inventors: Tung-Han CHUANG, Hsing-Hua TSAI
  • Patent number: 9997488
    Abstract: A copper-based alloy wire made of a material selected from the group consisting of a copper-gold alloy, a copper-palladium alloy and a copper-gold-palladium alloy is provided. The alloy wire has a polycrystalline structure of a face-centered cubic lattice and consists of a plurality of equi-axial grains. The quantity of grains having annealing twins is 10 percent or more of the total quantity of the grains of the copper-based alloy wire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Inventors: Tung-Han Chuang, Jun-Der Lee, Hsing-Hua Tsai
  • Patent number: 9490147
    Abstract: A stud bump structure and method for manufacturing the same are provided. The stud bump structure includes a substrate, and a first silver alloy stud bump disposed on the substrate, wherein the first silver alloy stud bump has a weight percentage ratio of Ag:Au:Pd=60-99.98:0.01-30:0.01-10.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2016
    Assignee: Wire Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tung-Han Chuang, Hsing-Hua Tsai, Jun-Der Lee
  • Patent number: 9425168
    Abstract: A stud bump structure, a package structure thereof and method of manufacturing the package structure are provided. The stud bump structure include a first chip; and a silver alloy stud bump disposed on the substrate, wherein the on-chip silver alloy stud bump includes Pd of 0.01˜10 wt %, while the balance is Ag. The package structure further includes a substrate having an on-substrate bond pad electrically connected to the on-chip silver alloy stud bump by flip chip bonding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: Wire Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tung-Han Chuang, Hsing-Hua Tsai, Jun-Der Lee
  • Publication number: 20150194409
    Abstract: A stud bump structure, a package structure thereof and method of manufacturing the package structure are provided. The stud bump structure include a first chip; and a silver alloy stud bump disposed on the substrate, wherein the on-chip silver alloy stud bump includes Pd of 0.01˜10 wt %, while the balance is Ag. The package structure further includes a substrate having an on-substrate bond pad electrically connected to the on-chip silver alloy stud bump by flip chip bonding.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2014
    Publication date: July 9, 2015
    Applicant: WIRE TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tung-Han Chuang, Hsing-Hua Tsai, Jun-Der Lee
  • Patent number: 9048388
    Abstract: A multi-layer thermoelectric module and a fabricating method thereof are provided. The module includes two thermoelectric element sets and a metal electrode set, in which the thermoelectric element sets are corresponding to different operating temperature ranges. Each thermoelectric element set includes a thermoelectric unit, an interfacial adhesion layer, a diffusion barrier layer and a high melting-point metal layer. In the method, the thermoelectric unit, the interfacial adhesion layer, and the diffusion barrier layer are sequentially formed on the thermoelectric unit. Then, two high melting-point metal layers are formed respectively on the electrode layers of the metal electrode set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2015
    Assignee: CHINA STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jing-Yi Huang, Huey-Lin Hsieh, Tung-Han Chuang, Jenn-Dong Hwang, Chao-Chi Jain
  • Patent number: 8940403
    Abstract: An alloy wire made of a material selected from one of a group consisting of a silver-gold alloy, a silver-palladium alloy and a silver-gold-palladium alloy is provided. The alloy wire is with a polycrystalline structure of a face-centered cubic lattice and includes a plurality of grains. A central part of the alloy wire includes slender grains or equi-axial grains, and the other parts of the alloy wire consist of equi-axial grains. A quantity of the grains having annealing twins was 20 percent or more of the total quantity of the grains of the alloy wire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2015
    Assignee: Wire Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jun-Der Lee, Hsing-Hua Tsai, Tung-Han Chuang
  • Publication number: 20140305483
    Abstract: A multi-layer thermoelectric module and a fabricating method thereof are provided. The module includes two thermoelectric element sets and a metal electrode set, in which the thermoelectric element sets are corresponding to different operating temperature ranges. Each thermoelectric element set includes a thermoelectric unit, an interfacial adhesion layer, a diffusion barrier layer and a high melting-point metal layer. In the method, the thermoelectric unit, the interfacial adhesion layer, and the diffusion barrier layer are sequentially formed on the thermoelectric unit. Then, two high melting-point metal layers are formed respectively on the electrode layers of the metal electrode set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2013
    Publication date: October 16, 2014
    Inventors: Jing-Yi HUANG, Huey-Lin HSIEH, Tung-Han CHUANG, Jenn-Dong HWANG, Chao-Chi JAIN
  • Publication number: 20140209215
    Abstract: A copper-based alloy wire made of a material selected from the group consisting of a copper-gold alloy, a copper-palladium alloy and a copper-gold-palladium alloy is provided. The alloy wire has a polycrystalline structure of a face-centered cubic lattice and consists of a plurality of equi-axial grains. The quantity of grains having annealing twins is 10 percent or more of the total quantity of the grains of the copper-based alloy wire.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2014
    Publication date: July 31, 2014
    Inventors: Tung-Han CHUANG, Jun-Der LEE, Hsing-Hua TSAI
  • Publication number: 20140175495
    Abstract: A die bonding method and a die bonding structure of a light emitting diode package are provided. The die bonding structure includes a light transmissive adhesive layer formed on a surface of a base plate of a light emitting diode chip, a first metal layer formed on the adhesive layer, a second metal layer formed on a packaging base plate and multiple metallic compound layers. The metallic compound layers are formed by spreading a third metal layer disposed on at least one of the first metal layer and the second metal layer into the first metal layer and the second metal layer after the third metal layer is heated up. The melting points of the first metal layer and the second metal layer are higher than the melting point of the third metal layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2013
    Publication date: June 26, 2014
    Inventors: Tung-Han Chuang, Jian-Shian Lin, Ying-Tsun Su, Meng-Chi Huang
  • Patent number: 8742600
    Abstract: Provided are a dual-phase intermetallic interconnection structure and a fabricating method thereof. The dual-phase intermetallic interconnection structure includes a first intermetallic compound, a second intermetallic compound, a first solder layer, and a second solder layer. The second intermetallic compound covers and surrounds the first intermetallic compound. The first intermetallic compound and the second intermetallic compound contain different high-melting point metal. The first solder layer and the second solder layer are disposed at the opposite sides of the second intermetallic compound, respectively. The first intermetallic compound is adapted to fill the micropore defects generated during the formation of the second intermetallic compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventors: Jing-Yao Chang, Tao-Chih Chang, Tung-Han Chuang, Chun-Yen Lee
  • Publication number: 20140124920
    Abstract: A stud bump structure and method for manufacturing the same are provided. The stud bump structure includes a substrate, and a first silver alloy stud bump disposed on the substrate, wherein the first silver alloy stud bump has a weight percentage ratio of Ag:Au:Pd=60-99.98:0.01-30:0.01-10.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2013
    Publication date: May 8, 2014
    Applicant: WIRE TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tung-Han CHUANG, Hsing-Hua TSAI, Jun-Der LEE
  • Publication number: 20140097534
    Abstract: Provided are a dual-phase intermetallic interconnection structure and a fabricating method thereof. The dual-phase intermetallic interconnection structure includes a first intermetallic compound, a second intermetallic compound, a first solder layer, and a second solder layer. The second intermetallic compound covers and surrounds the first intermetallic compound. The first intermetallic compound and the second intermetallic compound contain different high-melting point metal. The first solder layer and the second solder layer are disposed at the opposite sides of the second intermetallic compound, respectively. The first intermetallic compound is adapted to fill the micropore defects generated during the formation of the second intermetallic compound.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2013
    Publication date: April 10, 2014
    Applicant: INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Jing-Yao Chang, Tao-Chih Chang, Tung-Han Chuang, Chun-Yen Lee