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Download or read book Silicon Wafer Bonding Technology written by Subramanian S. Iyer and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2002 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes the essentials of silicon wafer bonding from an engineering perspective. A beginning chapter deals with basic processes of wafer bonding in detail, and subsequent chapters cover bonding by mechanical removal, the Smart Cut method of hydrogen exfoliation, the ELTRAN thinning technique and hydrogen annealing, engineering methods of wafer characterization, and quality assurance for bonded wafers. A chapter on advanced applications looks at applications in optoelectronics, very large scale integration (VLSI), microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), and photonics. A glossary is included, plus a table comparing various bonding methods. The editors work in the private sector. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR