Metallized AIN Aluminum Nitride Ceramics Substrate Ni/Au Plating

Aluminum nitride ceramics have excellent electrical and thermal properties, and are considered to be the most promising high thermal conductivity ceramic substrate materials. In order to seal the package structure, mount components and connect input and output terminals, the surface and interior of the aluminum nitride ceramic substrate need to be metallized. The reliability and performance of ceramic surface metallization have an important impact on the application of ceramic substrates, and firm bonding strength and excellent air tightness are the most basic requirements. Considering the heat dissipation of the substrate, it is also required to have high thermal conductivity at the interface between the metal and the ceramic. The metallization methods on the surface of aluminum nitride ceramics include: thin film method, thick film method, high melting point metallization method, electroless plating method, direct copper cladding method (DBC), etc.

DBC (Direct Bonded Copper) tenique denotes a special process in which the copper foil and the al2o3 or AlN (one or both sides) are directly bonded under appropriate high temperature. The finished super-thin DBC substrate has excellent electrical isolation,high thermal conductivity, fine solderability and high bonding strength.It may be structured just lick PCB to get etched wiring and has high curreng loading capability .Therefore DBC ceramic substrates have become the base material of tuture for both the construction and the interconnection techniques of high power semiconductor electronic circuits and also have been the basis for “chip on boaed” technology which repre-sents the packaging trend in century.