JP2011014778A - Device and method for sticking sheet - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a device and method capable of reliably sticking an adhesive sheet on an adherend, while preventing a defect in adhesion without performing complicated control.SOLUTION: When a mounting sheet MS is stuck on a reverse surface WB of a wafer W by a sheet sticking device 1, a pressing roller 51 is vibrated by a vibration body 53 and an adhesive can thereby be applied well following up fine irregularities of an adherend surface AS to increase a degree of adhesion of the adhesive of the sheet to the adherend surface AS, thereby reliably sticking the mounting sheet MS.

Description

  The present invention relates to a sheet sticking apparatus and a sticking method for sticking an adhesive sheet to an adherend.

  Conventionally, in a semiconductor manufacturing process, an attaching device for attaching a protective tape (adhesive sheet) to the surface of a semiconductor wafer (hereinafter simply referred to as a wafer), or a mounting sheet (adhesive tape) for integrating the wafer and the ring frame A sticking device that sticks an adhesive sheet to the surface of a wafer, which is an adherend, such as a sticking device that sticks to a wafer and a ring frame is used (for example, see Patent Document 1). In this sticking device, the pressure roller rolls on the adhesive sheet while pressing the adhesive sheet (protective tape) fed toward the surface of the wafer with the pressure roller, so that the adhesive sheet is stuck on the wafer. It is configured.

JP 2002-57208 A

By the way, like the conventional sticking device, when sticking by rolling the pressure roller on the adhesive sheet, unless the pressing force by the pressure roller is increased to a certain extent, the wafer and the adhesive sheet are not sufficiently bonded, Poor adhesion may occur.
This is because, as shown in FIG. 6, the adherend surface AS of the adherend T has irregularities (even if it is a mirror-finished adherend, strictly speaking, irregularities exist), the base portion of the convex portion AS1 It becomes difficult for the adhesive SA of the adhesive sheet SS to enter the concave portion AS2. For this reason, since the adhesive sheet SS is only partially bonded to the adherend surface AS, the above-described adhesion failure occurs.
In order to prevent such adhesion failure, if the pressing force by the pressing roller is increased, the degree of adhesion of the adhesive SA following the unevenness of the adherend T increases, and sufficient adhesive strength is obtained. However, when the pressing force by the pressing roller is increased, the stress acting on the wafer is increased and the wafer is damaged.

  An object of the present invention is to provide a sheet sticking apparatus and a sticking method capable of reducing the stress applied to an adherend and reliably sticking an adhesive sheet to the adherend while preventing poor adhesion.

  In order to achieve the above object, the sheet sticking device of the present invention is a sheet sticking device for sticking an adhesive sheet having an adhesive layer on one surface of a base sheet to an adherend. Supply means for supplying toward the adherend, and pressing means for pressing and adhering the adhesive sheet supplied from the supply means to the adherend, the pressing means being in contact with the substrate sheet A configuration is adopted in which a pressing member that presses the adhesive sheet and a vibration means that vibrates the pressing member at a predetermined frequency are employed.

Under the present circumstances, in the sheet sticking apparatus of this invention, it is preferable that the said press means has a heating means to heat the said press member.
In the sheet sticking device of the present invention, it is preferable that the pressing unit includes a vibration direction changing unit that changes a vibration direction of the pressing member by the vibration unit.
Furthermore, in the sheet sticking device of the present invention, it is preferable that the excitation unit includes a vibration width changing unit that changes a vibration width of the pressing member.

  On the other hand, the sheet sticking method of the present invention is a sheet sticking method in which an adhesive sheet having an adhesive layer on one surface of a base sheet is stuck to an adherend, and the adhesive sheet is directed toward the adherend. Supplying and vibrating the pressing member at a predetermined frequency, the adhesive sheet is pressed against the adherend with the pressing member and pasted.

  According to the present invention as described above, the degree of adhesion of the adhesive to the surface of the adherend can be achieved by vibrating the pressing member so that the adhesive can follow the fine irregularities of the adherend. The adhesive sheet can be reliably affixed by increasing the size. Thereby, the stress applied to the adherend can be reduced, and even if the adherend is a brittle one such as a semiconductor wafer, the adherend can be prevented from being damaged.

  Further, in the sheet sticking device, if the pressing means is provided with a heating means, the adhesive on the adhesive sheet can be softened by the heating means, and the adhesive can be easily applied to the surface of the adherend. It is possible to further increase the degree of adhesion to the surface of the adherend. Further, if the pressing means is provided with a vibration direction changing means, the vibration direction of the pressing member is changed to an appropriate direction according to the adherend, for example, the vibration direction is changed according to the shape of the unevenness. Thus, the degree of adhesion between the adhesive sheet and the adherend can be increased. Further, it is possible to further reduce the stress acting on the adherend so as not to vibrate toward the adherend, and to prevent damage to the adherend more reliably. Further, if the vibration means is provided with a vibration width changing means, the vibration width of the pressing member is appropriately changed according to the material and thickness dimension of the adhesive sheet, the material and hardness of the adherend, By increasing the degree of adhesion between the adhesive sheet and the adherend, the adhesion between the adhesive sheet and the adherend can be improved.

The fragmentary sectional view of the sheet sticking device concerning one embodiment of the present invention. The side view of the press means in the sheet sticking apparatus of FIG. Operation | movement explanatory drawing of the sheet sticking apparatus of FIG. FIG. 3 is a more detailed operation explanatory diagram of the sheet sticking apparatus of FIG. 1. The fragmentary sectional view of the sheet peeling apparatus which concerns on the modification of this invention. The figure which shows the example of a conventional malfunction.

Hereinafter, an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.
The sheet sticking apparatus 1 of this embodiment sticks a mounting sheet MS as an adhesive sheet to a wafer W and a ring frame RF as adherends, and integrates the wafer W and the ring frame RF with the mounting sheet MS. To do. Here, in the wafer W, a circuit is formed on the front surface WA located on the lower side in the figure, and a protective sheet S is attached, and a mounting sheet MS is attached to the back surface WB of the wafer W. Hereinafter, the back surface WB of the wafer W to which the mounting sheet MS is attached and the upper surface RA of the ring frame RF are referred to as an adherent surface AS. As shown in FIG. 4, the mounting sheet MS has an adhesive layer S2 laminated on one surface of the base sheet S1, and is pre-cut into an outer shape matching the ring frame RF. It is prepared in advance as a temporarily attached original fabric R.

  The sheet sticking apparatus 1 peels off the mounted mount sheet MS, the table 2 for mounting and holding the wafer W and the ring frame RF, the supply means 3 for feeding the mounting sheet MS toward the attachment surface AS. The peel plate 4 peeled off from the tape RL, the pressing means 5 for pressing and attaching the supplied mounting sheet MS to the adherend surface AS, the table 2, the supplying means 3 and the pressing means 5 in the left-right direction in FIG. And a single-axis robot 6 as a moving means for relative movement.

  The table 2 has a holding surface 21 for sucking and holding the wafer W from the protective sheet S side by a plurality of suction ports (not shown), and the ring frame RF is lowered by one step outside the holding surface 21 by a plurality of suction ports (not shown). And a stepped portion 22 for sucking and holding. The level difference between the holding surface 21 and the stepped portion 22 is set to the difference in thickness dimension between the wafer W and the protective sheet S and the ring frame RF, and the back surface WB of the wafer W supported by the table 2 and the top surface of the ring frame RF. RA is configured to be located in the same plane.

  The supply means 3 is supported by a frame (not shown). In this frame, a support roller 31 that supports the original roll R in a roll shape, and two guide rollers that guide the release sheet RL and the mounting sheet MS are supported. 32, 33, a drive roller 35 driven by a motor 34, a pinch roller 36 that sandwiches the release sheet RL between the drive roller 35, and a collection roller 37 that recovers the release sheet RL by a driving means (not shown). ing. Further, the peel plate 4 is supported by a frame (not shown) of the supply unit 3 in a posture inclined to the lower left in FIG. 1, and the release sheet RL extending from the guide roller 33 is folded back toward the drive roller 35 to mount the peel plate 4. The sheet MS is peeled from the release sheet RL.

  The entire pressing means 5 is integrally supported by a frame (not shown) of the supply means 3. As shown in FIG. 2, the pressing means 5 includes a pressing roller 51 as a pressing member that presses the mounting sheet MS toward the wafer W and the ring frame RF, and a support unit that rotatably supports the pressing roller 51. 52, an output shaft 53A connected to the support 52, and a vibrating body 53 as a vibrating means for vibrating the pressing roller 51, and fixed to the main body of the vibrating body 53 and shown in FIG. A support arm 54 extending to the left side of the motor, a rotation motor 55 whose output shaft 55A is connected to the support arm 54, and a slider 56A to which the rotation motor 55 is fixed are moved up and down in FIG. The position controllable linear motion motor 56 is connected to the frame (not shown) of the supply means 3 directly or indirectly.

  The pressing roller 51 is made of an elastically deformable member such as rubber, and is rotatably supported on the support portion 52 by a rotating shaft 51A, and includes a heater 56 as a heating unit therein. The pressure roller 51 is heated by this heat, so that the adhesive layer S2 of the mounting sheet MS is softened. The vibrating body 53 includes a vibration source 53B such as various vibration motors and piezoelectric elements (electrostrictive elements) inside the main body, and the vibration of the vibration source 53B causes the output shaft 53A to reciprocate in a direction in which it protrudes and protrudes from the main body. It has become. The vibration body 53 is provided with vibration width changing means capable of arbitrarily setting the vibration width, and for example, a vibration body having a vibration performance with a frequency (frequency) of 0.01 to 100 kHz and a vibration width of 1 μm to 10 mm is applied. The support portion 52 and the pressing roller 51 connected to the output shaft 53A can be vibrated at a predetermined frequency and amplitude set appropriately.

  In the pressing means 5 described above, the rotating motor 55 constitutes a vibration direction changing means, and the support arm 54, the vibrating body 53, the support portion 52, and the pressing roller 51 are rotated by the rotation of the output shaft 55A of the rotating motor 55. The shaft 51 </ b> A rotates around the center of rotation, whereby the vibration direction A of the pressing roller 51 by the vibrating body 53 can be changed to an arbitrary direction. That is, as shown by a solid line in FIG. 1, if the rotation motor 55 is rotated so that the output shaft 53A of the vibrating body 53 is in the vertical direction, the vibration direction A is a direction orthogonal to the back surface WB of the wafer W. Further, if the vibrating body 53 is rotated in the direction of arrow B in FIG. 1 so that the output shaft 53A is in the left-right direction as shown by a two-dot chain line in FIG. The direction is parallel to the back surface WB. As described above, if the force acting in the vibrating direction of the vibrating body 53 is F by rotating the vibrating body 53 and changing the vibration direction A of the pressing roller 51 to an arbitrary angle, Among them, the ratio between the vertical component Fz and the horizontal component Fx in FIG. 1 can be changed, and the stress acting on the wafer W can be reduced by appropriately reducing the vertical component Fz oscillating toward the wafer W. It has become.

  The single-axis robot 6 extends below the table 2 in the left-right direction in FIG. 1, and can slide the table 2 in the left-right direction in FIG. 1 by slidingly driving a slider 61 fixed to the lower surface of the table 2. It is configured. Then, while the table 2 is moved in the left direction in FIG. 1, the mounting sheet MS fed from the supply means 3 is pressed by the pressing roller 51 so that the mounting sheet MS is attached to the adherend surface AS. It has become.

In the sheet sticking apparatus 1 described above, as a procedure for sticking the mounting sheet MS to the wafer W and the ring frame RF, first, the ring frame RF is placed on the step portion 22 of the table 2 as shown in FIG. Hold by adsorption. Next, the wafer W to which the protective sheet S is attached is placed on the holding surface 21 of the table 2 at a predetermined position in the opening of the ring frame RF so that the protective sheet S faces down, and is sucked and held.
Next, the sheet sticking apparatus 1 is shown in FIG. 3 in a state where the table 2 is moved leftward by the single-axis robot 6 and the end of the mounting sheet MS is positioned on the upper surface RA of the ring frame RF. As described above, the pressing means 5 is lowered by driving the linear motion motor 56, the mounting sheet MS is pressed against the ring frame RF by the pressing roller 51, and the movement of the table 2 by the single-axis robot 6 is continued. The sheet MS is pressed and attached to the upper surface RA of the ring frame RF and the rear surface WB of the wafer W.

When the mounting sheet MS is pressed by the pressing means 5 as described above, the pressing roller 51 is rotated along the surface of the base sheet S1 of the mounting sheet MS while vibrating the pressing roller 51 by the vibrating body 53. Move.
Here, as the base material sheet S1 used for the mounting sheet MS, a sheet having a thickness of 20 to 300 μm is usually used, and an adhesive layer S2 having a thickness of 3 to 100 μm is laminated thereon. When a vibration having a vibration width of about 5 to 100 μm is applied to the mounting sheet MS having such a thickness, most of the vibration is mitigated by the elasticity of the pressing roller 51, the base sheet S1, and the adhesive layer S2. Therefore, an excessive pressing force is not applied to the wafer W.
In addition, when the base sheet S1 and the adhesive layer S2 having a small thickness are employed and the vibration width is large, the wafer W may be stressed. Therefore, the linear motion motor 56 is driven and the pressure roller 51 is driven. May be arranged at a position away from the base sheet S1, and vibration may be applied to the mounting sheet MS from that position. Alternatively, the rotating motor 55 may be driven to incline the vibrating body 53 to reduce the vertical component Fz in the vibration of the output shaft 53A and vibrate, or in a direction substantially parallel to the back surface WB of the wafer W. The vibration may be applied to the wafer W so that the wafer W is hardly vibrated.

In addition, as shown in FIG. 4, when the protective sheet S is attached to the back surface of the wafer W on which the convex portions (bumps) WC such as electrodes exist, for example, as shown in FIG. The rotation motor 55 may be driven so that the vibration direction A of the pressing roller 51 is the vertical direction, and the pressing roller 51 may be controlled to vibrate up and down before and after the convex portion WC, as shown in FIG. As shown, the rotation motor 55 is driven so that the vibration direction A of the pressing roller 51 is orthogonal to the surface of the convex portion WC, and the pressing roller 51 is vibrated at an arbitrary angle toward the center of the convex portion WC. You may control.
In this way, the adhesive constituting the adhesive layer S2 of the mounting sheet MS is made to follow the fine irregularities of the upper surface RA of the ring frame RF and the rear surface WB of the wafer W by vibrating the pressing roller 51. The degree of adhesion of the adhesive to the upper surface RA of the ring frame RF and the rear surface WB of the wafer W can be increased, and the mounting sheet MS can be reliably adhered. At this time, by softening the adhesive of the mounting sheet MS by the heater 56, the adhesive can be easily applied to the upper surface RA of the ring frame RF and the rear surface WB of the wafer W, and the adhesive of the mounting sheet MS is transferred to the wafer. The degree of adhesion to the surface of W can be further increased.

  When the mounting of the mounting sheet MS is completed as described above and the wafer W and the ring frame RF are integrated via the mounting sheet MS, the pressing means 5 is raised and the table 2 is moved by the single-axis robot 6. Is moved to the right in the figure. Then, the wafer W and the ring frame RF can be detached from the table 2 by releasing the suction by the step portion 22 and the holding surface 21. Then, the wafer W integrated with the ring frame RF by a transfer means (not shown) is transferred to the next process, for example, the peeling process of the protective sheet S.

According to this embodiment as described above, the following effects are obtained.
That is, when the mounting sheet MS is affixed to the back surface WB of the wafer W by the sheet affixing device 1, the vibration roller 53 is caused to vibrate so that the adhesive follows the fine irregularities of the adherend surface AS. The mount sheet MS can be reliably affixed by increasing the degree of adhesion of the adhesive to the adherend surface AS. Thereby, the stress applied to the wafer W can be reduced, and damage to the wafer W can be prevented.

  As described above, the best configuration, method and the like for carrying out the present invention have been disclosed in the above description, but the present invention is not limited to this. That is, the invention has been illustrated and described with particular reference to certain specific embodiments, but without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention, Various modifications can be made by those skilled in the art in terms of material, quantity, and other detailed configurations. In addition, the description of the shape, material, and the like disclosed above is exemplary for ease of understanding of the present invention, and does not limit the present invention. The description by the name of the member which remove | excluded the limitation of one part or all of such restrictions is included in this invention.

  For example, in the above-described embodiment, the case where the adherend is the semiconductor wafer W or the ring frame RF has been described. However, the adherend is not limited thereto, and the ring frame RF may not be provided. In addition to W, other plate-like members such as a glass plate, a steel plate, or a resin plate, and those other than the plate-like member can also be targeted. Examples of the semiconductor wafer include a silicon wafer and a compound wafer. The adhesive sheet to be adhered to such an adherend is not limited to the mounting sheet MS, and an adhesive sheet having an arbitrary use and shape, such as a protective sheet, other arbitrary sheets, films, tapes, and the like can be applied.

  In the embodiment, the example in which the pressing roller 51 is used as the pressing member has been described. However, as the pressing member of the present invention, a pressing blade 57 as shown in FIG. Can do. In FIG. 5, the pressing means 5A includes an elastically deformable pressing blade 57 as a pressing member that presses the mounting sheet MS toward the wafer W and the ring frame RF, and an excitation that vibrates the pressing blade 57 at a predetermined frequency. And a vibrating body 53 as means. The pressing blade 57 is configured by a plate-like member, and presses and attaches the mounting sheet MS while vibrating in a direction (vibration direction A) downward toward the attaching direction of the mounting sheet MS by the vibrating body 53. It can be applied to the surface AS.

Further, the supply means is not limited to supplying the mounting sheet MS from the original fabric R in which a plurality of mounting sheets MS are temporarily attached to the release sheet RL as in the above-described embodiment, but the single-sheet mounting sheet MS May be provided.
In addition, as the vibration means, a known ultrasonic vibration device, a known vibrator using an electric motor, air, or the like can be adopted, and any means can be used as long as the pressing roller 51 can vibrate. Absent.
Furthermore, the heating means may be constituted by hot air, hot water, a discharge heater, an infrared heater, or the like in addition to the heater 56.
Further, the vibration direction changing unit does not prevent the configuration other than the above embodiment from being employed as long as the vibration direction of the vibration unit can be changed.
Furthermore, the frequency (frequency) and vibration width of the vibration means are not limited to the numerical values of the above-described embodiment, and appropriate frequencies and vibration widths can be set.
Further, the vibration direction A of the pressing roller 51 is not limited to the direction perpendicular to the adherend surface AS as shown in FIG. 1, but the angle θ between the vibration direction A of the press roller 51 and the adherend surface AS (FIG. 4 ( B) can be arbitrarily set via the vibration direction changing means such as 5 °, 10 °, 15 °.
Furthermore, in the above embodiment, the vibration direction of the pressing roller 51 by the vibration direction changing means can be changed from the up and down direction in FIG. 1 to the left and right direction. You may comprise so that a direction can be changed. With such a configuration, the vibration direction can be changed in any direction within the three-dimensional space.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Sheet sticking apparatus 3 Supply means 5, 5A Press means 51 Press roller (press member)
53 Vibrating body (vibration means)
55 Rotating motor (vibration direction changing means)
56 Heater (heating means)
57 Pressing blade (pressing member)
MS mount sheet (adhesive sheet)
S1 Base sheet S2 Adhesive layer W Wafer (Substrate)

Claims (5)

A sheet sticking device for sticking an adhesive sheet having an adhesive layer on one surface of a base sheet to an adherend,
Supply means for supplying the adhesive sheet toward the adherend;
Pressing means for pressing and sticking the adhesive sheet supplied from the supply means to the adherend,
The pressing means includes a pressing member that contacts the base sheet and presses the adhesive sheet, and a vibration means that vibrates the pressing member at a predetermined frequency. Pasting device.   The sheet pressing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the pressing unit includes a heating unit that heats the pressing member.   The sheet sticking device according to claim 1, wherein the pressing unit includes a vibration direction changing unit that changes a vibration direction of the pressing member by the vibration unit.   The sheet affixing device according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein the vibration means includes vibration width changing means for changing a vibration width of the pressing member. A sheet attaching method for attaching an adhesive sheet having an adhesive layer on one surface of a base sheet to an adherend,
Supplying the adhesive sheet toward the adherend,
A sheet sticking method comprising: pressing and bonding an adhesive sheet to an adherend with a pressing member while vibrating the pressing member at a predetermined frequency.

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