What is Dicing?

Cutting a wafer into individual chips (dies). Besides sawing with a rotating blade, there are methods such as stealth dicing, which forms a modified layer inside the wafer with a laser.

Field: Packaging and assembly

Dicing in the explanations

Questions that mention Dicing (5)

  1. Which correctly describes dicing?
  2. What is the step called that grinds the back side of a wafer before dicing to thin it and make the package thinner?
  3. Which dicing method, with almost no kerf loss, focuses a laser inside the wafer to create a modified layer and then separates chips by stretching the tape?
  4. Which equipment is commonly used to slice a silicon ingot into many wafers at once?
  5. Which correctly describes a feature of wafer-level packaging (WLP)?

Related terms

Die bonding Wire bonding MEMS Ingot Slurry WLP (wafer-level package) Backgrinding BGA CSP (chip-scale package) Flip chip

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