1. Electronics Manufacturing Processes
Manufacture of Electronics Components
Manufacture of Printed Circuit Boards (PCB’s)
Assembly of components on PCB’s

2. Electronics Manufacturing Processes
Manufacture of Electronics Components
Manufacture of Printed Circuit Boards (PCB’s)
Assembly of components on PCB’s

3. Electronics Component Manufacture
Electronics Components
Mechanical and Electro-mechanical:
PCB mounted DIP switches, mains switches, disc drives
Passive Solid State Devices:
Resistors, Capacitors
Active Solid State Devices:
Transistors, Diodes, Thermionic valves, FETs and MOSFETs

4. Passive devices: resistors
Carbon Composite Resistor
Slug  leads  mold  bake  seal
- cheap, poor tolerance, rugged
Wire-wound resistor
wind wire  leads  mold  seal
- high power, low resistance, high frequency apps
Film resistor
Film is cut by laser  high precision
- low frequency applications

5. Passive devices: capacitors
Tabbed tubular paper capacitor
Tubular ceramic capacitors
Disk-ceramic capacitor

6. Active devices: Silicon wafer production
Raw Si:
Quartzite (SiO2) + Carbon (C) + Heat + catalysts  Si + CO2
Pure Si:
Si + HCl  SiCl4 + Hydrogen  Fractional distillation 
SiCl4 + H2 + catalysts  Si + HCl
Pure Monocrystalline Si:
Melt pure Si, Seed crystal drawn out slowly
Typical Single Crystal Ingot sizes:
1-2m long, 8cm / 15cm / 30 cm diameter
 Ingot sliced (Diamond saw)

7. Active Devices: Doping pure silicon
Dopant: Phosphorus, N-type
Dopant: Aluminum, P-type
Doping processes:
Diffusion (heat wafer in atmosphere with atoms of dopant)
Ion implantation (ions of dopant are accelerated, bombard surface)
Diode (showing doping)

8. Active components: Transistors
NPN transistor
MOSFET
Metal-Oxide Silicon
Field Effect Transistor

9. Active components: Integrated Circuits
Monolithic IC: Entire circuit made on a single crystal wafer
Hybrid IC: Monolithic IC + other components directly assembled into it
Hybrid micro-circuit film components

10. Active components: IC’s..
Depositing films of materials on substrate to make circuits
Thin Film Processes:
Form components on circuits by vacuum evaporation, sputtering, or anodization
Film thickness is ≤ 5 mm
Thick Film Processes (silk-screening)
Print liquid or paste through a screen (mask) onto substrate  firing (baking)
Film thickness is ~ 10 mm
Silk-screening

11. IC’s: Resistive elements deposition
vacuum deposition
IC’s: Resistive elements deposition
Subtractive
process
Additive
process

12. Diffused Junction Process
- Photolithography is the most
commonly used process
- Photoresists:
positive: more soluble when exposed
negative: less soluble when exposed
- Feature size = f(wavelength)
 small features need low l radiation
- Mask = = Artwork
- Projection:
- Direct: mask scale is 1:1
- Reducing: mask scale is 10:1

13. Packaging of components
- Packaging puts the chip (silicon) into a protective case
- Package provides external connections that are spaced conveniently
(at distance, arranged in array) for soldering
Exploded view of TO package

14. Packaging of components
Structure of a Surface mount component
SOIC package
Small Outline IC IC
Chip carrier
Avoiding possible heat damage to IC during soldering:
- Solder a chip carrier to the PCB
- Insert chip into carrier

15. Integrated Circuit (IC) Manufacture
- Slicing the Silicon ingot
- Fabrication of IC’s (Lithography, Sputtering, diffused junction, …)
- Testing each IC on the slice
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- Dicing (cutting each chip out with a diamond saw)
- Packaging

16. Packaging - Make leadframe
- Die attachment (chip bonded to leadframe using epoxy)
- Wire bonding (ultrasonic welding)
- Encapsulation (moisture resistant coating)
- Molding (plastic package)
- Marking (chip number, co. name, marked on package [laser, silkscreen])
- DTFS: deflash, trim the leadframe, form the leads, singulate (cut dambars)
- Leadfinishing: electroplating the leads

17. Electronics Manufacturing Processes
Manufacture of Electronics Components
Manufacture of Printed Circuit Boards (PCB’s)
Assembly of components on PCB’s

18. PCB Manufacture Typical PCB Types of PCB's
insulated substrate
copper connections
protective covering
Types of PCB's
single-side, double-side and multi-layer
Which type to use ?
(a) Circuit complexity
(b) Available space
(c) Cost

19. Manufacturing glass reinforced epoxy resin copper-clad boards
Boards are produced in "clean-rooms"
Manufacturing process: hot-pressing
• Place copper sheet on the lower plate
• Place few layers of glass cloth impregnated with epoxy on top
• [IF two-sided PCB's]: Place copper sheet on above
• Press between steel plates in a steam-heated hydraulic press (~7,000,000 Pa)
• Water cooling to 25º C
• Trim to clean out extruded epoxy
• Punch/Drill holes for alignment
• Make circuit on PCB (lithography)
• Drill through holes (for component leads)

20. Multi-layer PCBs
• Similar process as single layer, but takes several steps
Schematics and features on
Multi-layer PCB’s

21. Electronics Manufacturing Processes
Manufacture of Electronics Components
Manufacture of Printed Circuit Boards (PCB’s)
Assembly of components on PCB’s

22. PCB Assembly - Insert leaded component into holes on PCB - Solder
- Protective coating
Manual electronics assembly
Automated electronics assembly

23. Automated PCB Assembly
Component inputs:
Leaded Component
IC’s, components with no wire leads

24. PCB Manufacture Surface mount chip assembly:
- Silk-screening to apply solder paste on the board
- Automated assembly of components (>30,000 components per hour)
- IR or Wave soldering

25. Automatic soldering Step 1. Application of the solder resist
Cover PCB with solder resist except Lands
Land
Step 2. Flux application
Foam fluxing
Spray fluxing
Ultrasonic Spray fluxing

26. Automatic soldering..
Step 3. Solder Application
Dual wave solder bath

27. Automatic soldering..
Step 4. Automatic removal of solder bridges: Hot air-jet knives

28. Types of circuit boards

29. Special considerations
for SMT boards