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| author | Ghosh, Kamalendu Shrimali, Bhavesh Jeong, Subin |
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| contents | Wafer-to-wafer (WxW) bonding is a key enabler for three-dimensional integration, including hybrid bonding for fine-pitch Cu-Cu interconnects. During bonding, wafer deformation and the air entrapped between the wafers interact through a strongly coupled, time-dependent fluid-structure interaction (FSI) that can produce non-intuitive bonding dynamics and process sensitivities. This paper develops a mathematically consistent reduced-order model for WxW bonding by deriving a Kirchhoff-Love plate equation for wafer bending from three-dimensional linear elasticity and coupling it to a Reynolds lubrication equation for the inter-wafer air film. The resulting nonlinear plate-Reynolds system is discretized and solved monolithically in the high-performance FEniCSx framework using a $C^0$ interior-penalty formulation for the fourth-order plate operator, standard continuous Galerkin discretization for the pressure field, implicit time integration, and a Newton solver with automatic differentiation. Simulations reproduce experimentally reported probe-displacement histories for multiple initial gaps and verify force equilibrium at the bond front, where the Reynolds pressure acts as an effective contact reaction. Parametric studies reveal nonlinear, and in some cases non-monotonic, sensitivities of bonding-front kinetics to the initial gap, air viscosity, and interfacial energy, providing actionable trends for process optimization. |
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| spellingShingle | Wafer-to-Wafer Bonding: Part: I -- The Coupled Physics Problem and the 2D Finite Element Implementation Ghosh, Kamalendu Shrimali, Bhavesh Jeong, Subin Computational Physics Applied Physics Fluid Dynamics Wafer-to-wafer (WxW) bonding is a key enabler for three-dimensional integration, including hybrid bonding for fine-pitch Cu-Cu interconnects. During bonding, wafer deformation and the air entrapped between the wafers interact through a strongly coupled, time-dependent fluid-structure interaction (FSI) that can produce non-intuitive bonding dynamics and process sensitivities. This paper develops a mathematically consistent reduced-order model for WxW bonding by deriving a Kirchhoff-Love plate equation for wafer bending from three-dimensional linear elasticity and coupling it to a Reynolds lubrication equation for the inter-wafer air film. The resulting nonlinear plate-Reynolds system is discretized and solved monolithically in the high-performance FEniCSx framework using a $C^0$ interior-penalty formulation for the fourth-order plate operator, standard continuous Galerkin discretization for the pressure field, implicit time integration, and a Newton solver with automatic differentiation. Simulations reproduce experimentally reported probe-displacement histories for multiple initial gaps and verify force equilibrium at the bond front, where the Reynolds pressure acts as an effective contact reaction. Parametric studies reveal nonlinear, and in some cases non-monotonic, sensitivities of bonding-front kinetics to the initial gap, air viscosity, and interfacial energy, providing actionable trends for process optimization. |
| title | Wafer-to-Wafer Bonding: Part: I -- The Coupled Physics Problem and the 2D Finite Element Implementation |
| topic | Computational Physics Applied Physics Fluid Dynamics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.22827 |