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BULLIES - ENOUGH! (Or an Open Letter to Legislators About Women's Reproductive Rights)
This post relates to women's reproductive rights.
I am not trying to change anyone's ideas on abortion and/or birth control.
I'm not looking to debate those ideas with anyone.
But, I am mad as hell about the continuing attempts by legislative bullies to mute and infantilize one-half of our populace based on outmoded ideas of Womanhood.
If this insults you, please read no further. You've been warned.
When I was in grade school, I had the (not uncommon) experience of being subjected to bullying. Yes, I got called names like "oinker"and "thunder thighs" by classmates. Fourth grade was the most instructive time because I began to see and understand the bully. For anonymity sake, I refer herein to my tormentor as "G".
G chose her victims very carefully. Grade school was so much like a chickenyard, I'm surprised we weren't all molting feathers. Like an aggressive hen, G sought out the bleeding to attack. Emotional weakness, physical disability, or passing her way on a day when one's best friends were not around was all it took to set her off. G's attacks were not full-frontal assaults of flying fists and hair yanking. No, G was a vicious crab, going after her prey in a sideways fashion.After all, even the weak can be dangerous. She would run and whisper to another student and stir the pot. "Did you know her family is X? How disgusting! And, do you know what she said about YOU!" Poke, poke, stab, stab, she would fan the flames of disgust and hate. She would lie, and sneak and slither and turn friend against friend until the war erupted. Like a cartoon rat she would run to a corner and watch with glee as her classmates tore each other apart.
She did it to me, and I ended up in the only honest to gosh fistfight of my life –with a boy. At her goading, we flailed and yelled until Sister Mary I Have A Big Ruler And I Will Use It dragged us by our collars to the office. Sitting on a bench, awaiting our fate, the unthinkable happened – we talked to each other.
Oh.My. Gosh.
We were hoodwinked, played as idiots by someone who wasn't even going to pay for her deeds. This was not about any"real" thing, but about puffing up G's sense of power and authority. It was sneaky, it was snaky, and it was as ugly as it gets. We made sure our classmates knew what she did because that's how to make a bully run.
And this is how I feel about the bullies that have trotted out, and even more shockingly passed, law after law after law limiting women's rights to reproductive health in this country. Eighty-two percent of states have legal restrictions in place and more are being proposed every day. So, bear with me for a moment here while I tie this all together.
The Cult of True Womanhood dictated a woman's behavior and placed social boundaries on her life in the 1800's. A "true" woman was expected to focus always and only on running a home, raising children and (this is important) being obedient. Respectable and proper women were to hold the four key virtues:
1) Piety– religious activities are encouraged (as opposed to say educational or vocational activities), because they kept a woman in her proper sphere (home) and **because religion controls a woman's longings** (danger, danger!)
2) Purity– virginity is a woman's true and greatest treasure and must be guarded by her male relatives until her marriage night.
3) Submission- a true woman is submissive and **as obedient as little children because men are women's superiors by the appointment of God.**
4) Domesticity– woman belongs in the home where she is to create a refuge for a husband and children. Cooking, cleaning, bed-making, sewing, needlework, and tending flowers are 'feminine activities'. Reading anything beyond religious works is not encouraged (ack, more danger!).
True women were supposed to be soft, delicate, weak, beautiful and wholly dependent on their husband for wealth, status and for most decision-making. A true woman did not concern herself with politics or power because she simply did not have a mind capable of dealing with issues of politics. A true woman could not make decisions for her own well-being because her mind and constitution are inferior.
Fast-forward to today and I know you can recognize that the arguments in favor of restricting women's reproductive healthcare sit squarely on the Victorian ideas that define What A True Woman Should (Can) Be.
Listen, I don't care what your beliefs are about birth control or abortion are, BUT women….
Seriously. You are not a feather-head. You are not an imbecile. You are not a child.You are not mute. No matter what your work is your "proper sphere" is any darn place you want it to be.
You have a brain (and it is not inferior to a man's). You can read research and determine what medical procedures are appropriate for you, or not.
You probably have your own spiritual beliefs, and you can ascertain what resonates with those beliefs and what violates them.
You are NOT weak and in need of a custodian to control your thoughts and actions..
Listen, we elect (and pay) our government officials to do many things, and one of the most important is to write and pass laws to protect those who truly cannot speak for themselves –
children, animals, the environment, the economy, the mentally ill, etc.
However, we DO NOT need our legislators to think for and control women. We DO NOT need them to crawl between our legs and post laws on our wombs.We DO NOT need them to clasp chastity belts over our loins. We DO NOT need them to decide what kinds of medical care we can have based on our sex and when we can receive it. We have brains and hearts and ideas and *gasp* can make up our own minds.
There are lots, and I mean lots of things our legislators NEED to be doing to assist the citizenry. Here are a few…
· Employment – people want to work, people need to work (it's how we pay you after all.. taxes, you remember those, yes?)
· Energy –moving from oil dependence, creation of new energy technologies to create (OMG) jobs, repairing our dilapidated and aged and insufficient electrical grid, etc.
· Fracking – legislators, you DO know that thousands of people can set their garden hose water on fire because of fracking, right???
· Immigration – enough said
· Tax Fairness – offshore accounts, corporations that pay nothing, small businesses that are being driven to their knees, etc.
· The middle class— you remember them, that mythical disappearing unicorn.
· Infrastructure—crumbling levies, crumbling bridges, crumbling highways, crumbling overpasses (ooh ooh .. more jobs here maybe, hmm?), etc.
These issues and many more are the Real Deal, the true problems, and they are big and complicated and messy and there is no simple Sound Bite to Re-election in them. These would be like the direct punch to the face--painful but honest.
But, instead of dealing with real issues, many of our legislators, male and female alike, have chosen to be bullies. Like crazed fowl, they are going after those whom they see as the weak and bruised and bleeding and unwilling to fight back. "Yes, let's go after those mythical whorish welfare mothers who are having 27 abortions on YOUR dime." And, while they're at it, they might as well tie the hands, and nether regions of ALL WOMEN… you know ...
for their own good, because all women are weak-minded children and must
be protected. Legislators must think FOR them, for the good of all.
I Call Bullshit!
They would bind the minds and the hearts and the bodies and steal the choices and usurp the very thoughts and options available for your daughters, your sisters, your friends, your partners and your mothers...Your Choices.
And Why? I say because these individuals are not strong enough or smart enough or willing enough to stand up to those who throw piles of money at them and instead perform their actual job.
To them, I say ….
You are spineless, frightened, impotent bullies.
I pull off your mask. I call you into the light.
You will NOT take away MY freedom under the guise of protection.
You will NOT take my voice,
You will NOT have my vote and
You will NOT decide what will or will not happen with MY BODY.
And…I tell you that a filibuster is the least of your worries, and… guess what...
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Ernest H. Roudebush, 86, of Brenner Rd., Carrollton died Dec. 18, 2009, at home following a brief illness.
Born June 20, 1923, in Washington Twp, Carroll County, he was a son of the late Lee and Bertha Roudebush.
He was a World War II veteran of the Navy for three years, serving in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. He was cofounder, owner and operator of Deluxe Body Shop, founded in 1949. He retired from the REA after 21 years of service and was a member of the Carrollton Church of Christ (Christian Disciples).
He is survived by his wife, Betty, whom he married March 12, 1946; two sons, Wilfred (Christine) of Bowling Green and Joe (Lana) of Uniontown; six grandchildren and five great grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by three brothers, George, Jay and Carl.
A funeral service was held Dec. 22 in Allmon-Dugger-Cotton Funeral Home with Pastor Mike Doak officiating. Burial was in Westview Cemetery with full military honors by VFW, DAV and American Legion.
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Bhubaneswar: The first test-firing of India's indigenous intercontinental ballistic missile Agni-V has been postponed for Thursday due to adverse weather conditions, a defence ministry spokesperson said Wednesday.
The 5,000 km-range missile was scheduled for launch Wednesday from Wheelers' Island off the coast in Odisha's Bhadrak district.
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El Paso, Texas- The University of New Mexico track and field team is traveling to El Paso, Texas this weekend for the UTEP Invitational. Events will take place on Saturday beginning at 10 a.m. and running all day.
Weather: Temperatures will be in the low 80s with light winds.
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Standout Sandy Fortner is scheduled to compete in the 100m hurdles, shot put and javelin throw. Fortner ranks in the top ten in New Mexico history in both the 100m hurdles (No. 6, 14.33) and the shot put (No. 4, 46-00 (14.02m)).
Kelly Fortner will compete in the pole vault. The Fort Sumner, N.M. product has a career best in the event of 11-07.75. The mark holds the seventh spot on the UNM all-time performers list.
Senior Carolyn Boosey will compete in the 3,000 Steeplechase. The London, England product holds the second spot on the UNM all-time performers list with a time of 10:56.74. Boosey clocked a career-best time of 10:34.00 while attending St. Mary's (England).
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Chancellor Richard Johnson is set to retire from his current position at the end of the month.
Two Elizabethton attorneys and one from Jonesborough got the nod Friday from the Judicial Nominating Commission for possible selection to fill the Chancery Court judgeship being vacated by Chancellor Richard Johnson at the end of this month.
Greg Bowers and Regina Shepherd received 10 votes in the first round of the selection process after nearly three hours of interviews conducted by 13 of the 17-member commission. John Rambo received eight votes in the first two rounds and 11 votes in the third round.
To be selected as one of the three names to be submitted to Gov. Bill Haslam, the applicants had to receive nine votes from the commission.
Johnson, whose eight-year term ends in 2014, announced his retirement in May. His official retirement date is June 30. The chancellor serves the four counties — Washington, Carter, Unicoi and Johnson — that make up the 1st Judicial District.
Chancery Court handles civil matters, much of which is domestic, child support and child custody issues, adoption, divorces and contract/debt cases. The chancellor also hears probate cases in Washington, Carter and Johnson counties.
"I appreciate the service of the members of the commission. I know how hard it is for them to do their job," Bowers said. "I'm very honored to be one of the three chosen to pursue the chancellorship. This district will be well served regardless of who the selection is."
Shepherd and Rambo were likewise appreciative.
"I'm happy to be on the list with two other exceptionally qualified candidates. I appreciate all the help and kind words from the public and legal community."
Shepherd was one of three women who applied for the position. "I'm really humbled," she said. "I'm still in a little shock. I think this is a great process."
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Greg H. Bowers, 50, Elizabethton, received his law license in 1987 and is a co-equal partner with his brother at Allen, Nelson & Bowers. He currently has an exclusively civil practice handling probate, real estate and general civil cases and serving as special master, successor trustee and attorney ad litem.
Rambo, 43, Jonesborough, received his law license in 1994 and currently serves as the county attorney for Washington County. Prior to that, Rambo had a private practice in which he worked under contract as the county attorney. While in private practice, he handled probate matters, domestic cases and personal injury cases.
Shepherd, 43, Elizabethton, received her law license in 1999 and practices civil law at Rice & Shepherd in both the 1st and 2nd Judicial districts. Shepherd primarily handles domestic law cases, including contested and uncontested divorces and custody disputes.
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I think this story, In the Reign of Harad IV, has encouraging, and also frightening, implications for anybody that is interested in making things (anything). I took classes with him (Millhauser) during college and he was a nice man and good teacher. You can read the story here or if you are lazy, you can listen to someone else read the story.


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2012 has a fair few cinematic delights in store, not least the first Hobbit film, Sam Mendes's Bond treatment Skyfall and the forthcoming Ridley Scott epic Prometheus, among others.
For now though I'll just look forward to the next three months: here's my top five most-anticipated for the first quarter of 2012:
But before I get into the list: The Artist. One of the most talked about films of 2011, and it's not been released up here amongst the dark satanic mills. The official UK release date, irritatingly, is 30th December 2011. Well, I'm still watching & reviewing it, even if it won't be making any end-of-year lists.
5. The Muppets
I'm an unapologetic Muppet fan and while this clearly won't be Citizen Kane I still expect to be thoroughly amused and entertained by Kermit & co. Bret McKenzie's involvement also bodes well.
4. A Dangerous Method
The advanced word on after it's US release suggests a somewhat flawed adaptation of this Christopher Hampton stage play about Freud and Jung. However, I have enough faith in the Cronenberg/Fassbender/Mortensen troika that I'll be giving it a chance.
3. Martha Marcy May Marlene
3. Martha Marcy May Marlene
2. Coriolanus
Fiennes. Redgrave. Shakespeare. Come on, how could you not be looking forward to this? Corialanus may be a brave choice (a lesser-known play, with a vaguely unfortunate name) but the modern-day setting looks promising for this enduring tragedy.
1. Shame
Yet another 2011 hangover that hasn't yet received it's UK release. Steve McQueen reunites with Michael Fassbender with this dark exploration of sex addiction, also starring Carey Mulligan as Fassbender's dysfunctional sister. The presence of these three electrifying cinematic talents add up to make Shame my most anticipated film of the coming months.
Honourable mentions also for Hunger Games and The Iron Lady (if only too see how director Phyllida Lloyd handles the wild-eyed, salivating polarisation that the word 'Thatcher' brings out in us Brits).
Honourable mentions also for Hunger Games and The Iron Lady (if only too see how director Phyllida Lloyd handles the wild-eyed, salivating polarisation that the word 'Thatcher' brings out in us Brits).


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Chillingo has announced that it will be publishing a new mobile title from DmC Devil May Cry studio Ninja Theory. Fightback will be coming to iOS and Android this summer.
We reported earlier this morning that Ninja Theory had trademarked the name "Fightback" earlier this month and that a related URL (fightbackgame.com) had also been scooped up. It turns out the title is a free-to-play action title that derives its aesthetic from the neon 80s. Ninja Theory's first mobile title will be on display for media at E3.


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A pregnant Brooklyn woman suffering a fatal seizure in a coffee shop in the shadow of FDNY Headquarters was ignored by two callous city medics who continued to buy their breakfast, eyewitnesses told The Post.
I know the focus in the news is how the EMT's walked away--and believe me--I think that's pretty scummy and that they should be fired.
However, I'm more interested in what was wrong with the mother, because it screams eclampsia/pre-eclampsia/ maybe even HELLP to me. And if that's the case, I think it's pretty doubtful that the EMT's/doctors *could* have saved her at that point anyway, though that doesn't excuse them. (One of my aunt's co-workers, who was a nurse, died from HELLP syndrome complications in her home earlier this year. She dismissed the pain as normal pregnancy stuff and then it was too late. )
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A microchip has a bonding material that bonds a first substrate to a second substrate. The bonding material has, among other things, a rare earth metal and other material.
1. A method of bonding a MEMS wafer to a second wafer, the method comprising:
providing the MEMS wafer with a two-dimensional array of MEMS devices;
providing the second wafer;
depositing a metal alloy onto one or both the MEMS wafer and the second wafer, the metal alloy comprising a rare earth metal;
aligning the MEMS wafer and the second wafer;
forming an intermediate apparatus having the metal alloy between the MEMS wafer and the second wafer;
heating the intermediate apparatus at least to within 75 degrees C. of the melting point of the metal alloy between the MEMS wafer and the second wafer; and
cooling the wafers to form a plurality of conductive hermetic sealing rings about the plurality of the MEMS devices on the MEMS wafer, the sealing rings bonding the MEMS wafer to the second wafer.
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forming at least one pedestal ring on the MEMS wafer.
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This patent application claims priority from provisional U.S. Patent Application No. 61/095,754, filed Sep. 10, 2008, entitled, "SUBSTRATE BONDING WITH BONDING MATERIAL HAVING RARE EARTH METALS," and naming John R. Martin, Timothy J. Frey, and Christine Tsau as inventors, the disclosure of which is incorporated herein, in its entirety, by reference.
This patent application is related to U.S. patent application Ser. No. 12/434,772, filed on May 4, 2009, entitle, "APPARATUS AND METHOD OF WAFER BONDING USING COMPATIBLE ALLOY", and naming John R. Martin, Timothy J. Frey, and Christine Tsau as inventors, the disclosure of which is incorporated herein, in its entirely, by reference.
The invention generally relates to microchips and, more particularly, the invention relates to bonding substrates when forming microchips.
A wide variety of microchips use caps to protect their interior components. For example, micro-electromechanical systems ("MEMS devices") often have a cap to protect their fragile microstructure. Many MEMS devices typically have a glass seal to bond the silicon die caps to the underlying MEMS chip. Such a seal, which can be hermetic, may have widths on the order of about 150 to 400 microns. Undesirably, this seal footprint increases die size, especially when there is little or no support circuitry on the die. As a consequence, fewer dies/microchips can be formed from individual wafers, thus increasing per-unit fabrication costs.
Glass also can introduce contaminants and electrically isolate the cap from the die. Although the latter problem can be accommodated by wirebonding to the cap, such a solution increases package height. One alternative to using a glass seal involves use of a thermocompression bonded metal. Undesirably, however, thermocompression bonding generally requires wafers to have minimal topography due to the high pressures required in such processes.
In accordance with illustrative embodiments of the invention, a microchip has a bonding material that bonds a first substrate to a second substrate. The bonding material has, among other things, a rare earth metal and other material.
The first substrate may be either a chip or a wafer, and the second substrate also may be either a chip or a wafer. Thus, the bonding material facilitates a chip to chip bonding, a wafer to wafer bonding, or a chip to wafer bonding. Moreover, the bonding material may be a solder or a thermocompression material. The rare earth metal facilitates bonding because, in various embodiments, the other material does not readily bond with the first substrate in the absence of the rare earth metal. The bonding material may have any useful concentration of rare earth metal, such as a concentration of between about 0.1 to 15.0 percent (volume percent).
Therefore, various embodiments allow metals to be applied to one surface and bonded to a second surface with minimal restrictions as to the nature of the second surface. In this respect, it offers application and process versatility that, to the inventors' knowledge, only had been available with glass seal/bond materials or nonhermetic polymeric seal/bond materials.
The bonding material may form a hermetic seal, electrically connect the first substrate and the second substrate, or both. Deposition processes (e.g., sputtering processes) facilitate narrow and small-area bond structures. For example, the bonding material may form a seal ring having a width of less than about 100 microns. In some embodiments, the first wafer has a least one pedestal with a top surface. The bonding material thus is positioned between the second wafer and the top surface of the pedestal. Moreover, the bonding material may substantially cover the interior surface of the first substrate, or cover no more than a portion of the same interior surface.
In accordance with another embodiment of the invention, a method of bonding a first substrate and a second substrate forms at least one pedestal on the first substrate, and deposits bonding material having a rare earth metal onto at least one of the pedestal and the second substrate. The method then contacts the second substrate with the at least one pedestal to form an intermediate apparatus. The bonding material is positioned between the at least one pedestal and the second substrate at this point. The method then heats the intermediate apparatus to cause the bonding material to bond with at least one of the first substrate and the second substrate.
To mitigate oxidation on the bonding material, the method may add a cover material to the bonding material. This act may be performed before contacting the second substrate with the at least one pedestal. In addition, the at least one pedestal may be formed by a number of processes, such as by etching the first substrate or simply securing a member onto a generally flat surface of the first substrate.
Some embodiments heat the intermediate apparatus to form a thermocompression bond between the first substrate and the second substrate. Alternatively, other embodiments may heat the intermediate apparatus to form a solder bond between the first substrate and the second substrate. Moreover, a bonding material may be disposed by sputtering, from a first source, the bonding material onto at least one of the pedestal and the second substrate. The method further may sputter a cover material, from, for example, a second source, onto the bonding material.
If the first and second substrates are wafers, the method may at least partially dice the first and second bonded wafers to produce a plurality of individual chips. Some embodiments also form a via through at least one of the first substrate and the second substrate. Among other things, the first substrate may have micro-electromechanical structure, and the second substrate may form a cap about the micro-electromechanical structure.
In accordance with another embodiment of the invention, a wafer bonding method deposits a metal alloy onto one or both of a MEMS wafer having a two-dimensional array of MEMS devices or a second wafer. In preferred embodiments, the metal alloy has a rare earth metal. The method then aligns the MEMS wafer and the second wafer to form an intermediate apparatus having the metal alloy between the wafers. Next, the method heats the intermediate apparatus and brings the wafers into contact. The step of bringing the wafers into contact may occur before, after or simultaneous with the start of heating. The contact pressure, time and temperature of heating the intermediate apparatus is sufficient to allow the rare earth metal to promote adhesion between at least a portion of the contacting surfaces. The intermediate apparatus is then cooled to form a plurality of substantially conductive hermetic sealing rings about the plurality of MEMS devices on the MEMS wafer.
Those skilled in the art should more fully appreciate advantages of various embodiments of the invention from the following "Description of Illustrative Embodiments," discussed with reference to the drawings summarized immediately below.
Illustrative embodiments use a bonding material with a rare earth element to bond wafers, chips, or wafers and chips. For example, the bonding material may be a solder and/or a thermocompression material that joins a wafer to another wafer. Details of illustrative embodiments are discussed below.
In accordance with illustrative embodiments of the invention, the microchip 10 has a specially configured seal ring bonding the cap 14 to the substrate 12. Specifically, the seal ring is formed from a bonding material/alloy 24 having, in combination, at least one rare earth metal and a metal/element/alloy. The rare earth metal in the alloy/element enables bonding to wafers/chips that the bonding material 24, under similar bonding conditions, may not bond to absent the rare earth metal. Accordingly, the bonding material 24 readily bonds to both the substrate 12 and the cap 14 to provide a hermetic seal (if required by the application).
As used herein, the term "rare earth" metal or element includes the lanthanide series, as well as scandium and yttrium. For example, in certain applications, lanthanum and yttrium should provide satisfactory results.
Moreover, the seal ring also electrically connects the cap 14 with the substrate 12, thus allowing the potential between the cap 14 and the substrate 12 to be controlled. Accordingly, due to the high chemical reactivity of the rare earth metal within the alloy, the surfaces of the cap 14 and the substrate 12 do not require extensive surface scrubbing or additional preparation steps.
Use of the rare earth metal enables a wide range of potential materials for use as the bonding material 24. For example, metals having low toxicity and low contamination may be more preferable to bond the cap 14 to the substrate 12. As discussed in greater detail below, the seal ring may be formed through a number of processes, such as a soldering process, an alloy-forming process, or a thermocompression process. Unlike many solders, however, the seal ring may have a very small width, such as on the order of about 100 microns. As such, the seal ring should occupy less chip real estate than many prior art seal rings, favorably reducing the overall chip size.
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Accordingly, conventional micromachining processes form each of the plurality of devices on the device wafer 16 to have, among other things, a plurality of springs (not shown) movably supporting a mass 22 above the substrate 12.
As noted above, illustrative embodiments form a plurality of pedestals 20 that each generally circumscribe the movable mass 22 of one device. In other words, each device has at least one pedestal 20 around its mass 22. Optionally, the pedestal 20 of a device may enclose more than one mass 22, and a device may have more than one pedestal 20. To reduce process steps and improve efficiency, the method preferably forms these pedestals 20 as it forms the movable mass 22, springs, and other microstructure on the device wafer 16.
By way of example, the pedestals 20 may be formed by etching material from the device wafer 16. Accordingly, if the device wafer 16 is formed from single crystal silicon, then the pedestals 20 also are formed from single crystal silicon (i.e., because they are integral with and formed from the device wafer 16). Alternatively, the method may form the pedestals 20 by disposing a material onto the device wafer 16. For example, the method may deposit polysilicon onto the device wafer 16 to form the pedestals 20. Optionally, a dielectric material can be used to form pedestal 20, or as a layer under some or all of pedestal 20, to electrically isolate selected regions of substrate 12 from cap 14. In yet another embodiment, the method may secure separate, pre-made circumscribing components onto the device wafer 16.
If the cap wafer 18 is very close to the device wafer 16, then the two wafers effectively may form a capillary that wicks the bonding material 24 across the microstructure (if the bonding material 24 is in a liquid state). The height of the pedestals 20 thus should be controlled to avoid this undesirable consequence if the bonding material is in a liquid state. One advantage of processing at a temperature below the melting point is that such capillary wicking effects are avoided. If the bonding process is close to, but below, the melting point, the bonding material is soft. Therefore, moderate force is sufficient to deform the bonding material 24 to accommodate normal variations in wafer topography. In this discussion, the term "melting point" refers to the temperature at which the solid becomes a liquid, and such term is intended to broadly cover solid-liquid phase transitions, such as those that occur in mixtures at a eutectic point.
To reduce the chip real estate required for the seal ring being formed, illustrative embodiments form the pedestals 20 to have a very small width. For example, the pedestals 20 may have a width of about 100 microns or less. Of course, some embodiments may form the pedestals 20 to have greater widths and thus, pedestal widths greater than 100 microns may still be within the scope of various embodiments of the invention.
After forming the pedestals 20, the method adds bonding material 24, which includes a rare earth metal, to one of the wafers (step 202). The method may add the bonding material 24 in any number of ways.
In one embodiment, the method sputters a 0.5 to 4.0 micron thick alloy of tin and rare earth metal onto the bottom of the cap wafer 18 (e.g., see
Next, the method may sputter a thinner layer (e.g., 0.05 to one micron thick) of material that does not contain rare earth metal, onto the first layer. This second layer primarily acts as an oxygen barrier to prevent/mitigate oxidation of the rare earth alloy. As such, this layer can be referred to as a "cover layer." The cover layer may be the material used in the first layer (tin or tin alloy in the embodiment described above), or a different material, such as gold.
It should be noted that discussion of a sputtering process is for simplicity only and thus, not intended to limit other embodiments of the invention. For example, some embodiments may apply the bonding material 24 using a transfer process. Accordingly, those skilled in the art may use other techniques for applying the bonding material 24 to the appropriate wafer 16 or 18.
Alternatively, the method may add the bonding material 24 to both wafers 16 and 18, or to the top facing surface of the pedestal rings 20 on the device wafer 16.
Any number of different alloys may be used, depending upon the application. Toxicity, contamination, and other factors should be taken into consideration. For example, many applications require a lead-free alloy. In addition to lead, toxicity also discourages use of other materials, such as cadmium and mercury. Alloys and the cover material also may be selected based upon their eutectic temperature. For example, higher eutectic temperature materials/alloys (e.g., above 300 degrees C.) should be considered based on the requirements of subsequent thermal exposures. For example, if the die will subsequently be packaged in plastic using standard transfer molding techniques, the alloy should be capable of withstanding the 175 degree C. transfer molding process temperature.
As another example, CMOS devices should avoid deep level trap metals, such as gold. Specifically, various embodiments select from metals customarily used in a CMOS wafer fabrication plant. Among others, those metals include aluminum, germanium, tungsten, and titanium. Such types of metals are considered to be "CMOS compatible" metals. In one illustrative embodiment of forming bond material 24, 0.5 to 4 microns of aluminum or an aluminum alloy suitable for use in a CMOS wafer fabrication facility may be deposited on an optional barrier/bonding layer, such as titanium-tungsten. A rare earth metal layer, 0.1 to 1.0 microns thick, is then deposited on this aluminum or aluminum alloy, followed by a thin cover layer that may conveniently be the same aluminum or aluminum alloy. The aluminum alloys used for interconnect layers of integrated circuit wafers are one class of alloys that may be useful in this embodiment. Alloys of aluminum and germanium are also attractive for this embodiment because they have a relatively low melting temperature (424 degrees C. for the eutectic composition). Metals are soft and readily deformed near their melting temperature, so use of a low melting temperature alloy allows bond surfaces to be pressed into atomic scale contact at relatively low pressure and temperature. This is particularly advantageous for delicate or thermally sensitive materials, or those with a high bond area such that achieving atomic scale contact requires that the applied bond force approach or exceed the limits of available equipment.
Further material constraints may arise in other applications. For example, in stiction sensitive applications, alloy selection may be limited to metals having negligible vapor pressure at anticipated bonding temperatures. In addition, the exposed metal (i.e., the source of vapor) may be minimized by removing it from the cap wafer cavity surface. Metals such as indium and bismuth therefore may cause stiction if they are volatilized and inadvertently deposited onto closely spaced microstructures during the wafer bonding process. Moreover, tin undesirably can spontaneously generate whiskers. In fact, addition of a rare earth metal to tin appears to enhance this characteristic. Post-treating the seals and interconnects with an atomic layer deposition film may reduce this phenomenon.
One of ordinary skill in the art thus should select the appropriate base alloy or element to mix with a rare earth metal based upon the intended application. The base alloy may include binary alloys, such as those based on tin/silver, gold/tin, gold/silicon/ and germanium/aluminum. For example, 96.5 tin-3.5 silver has an eutectic temperature at about 221 degrees C., 55 germanium-45 aluminum has an eutectic temperature at about 424 degrees C. Addition of a small amount of rare earth metal should not appreciably change the eutectic process temperatures. Alloys having more than two elements also may receive a rare earth metal for the noted purposes. Other embodiments may use single element base materials, such as aluminum.
Illustrative embodiments add a relatively small percentage of rare earth metal to the base alloy. The method selects the appropriate percentage primarily based upon the bonding strength desired for the ultimate alloy. For example, the rare earth alloy may have a concentration of between about 0.1 and about 15.0 percent rare earth metal. More specifically, the rare earth alloy may have a concentration of between about 0.5 and about 10.0 percent rare earth metal.
After adding the bonding material 24, the process continues to step 204, which couples together the substrate and cap wafers 16 and 18 to form an "intermediate apparatus." To that end, conventional processes adhere the bonding material 24 to one or both of the wafers, and bring the wafers together. Due to the nature of the structure and bonding material 24, however, illustrative embodiments do not necessarily require precise alignment to bring the wafers together. In fact, the surfaces often do not require special surface preparation—instead, the surfaces are ready for bonding. Alternative embodiments, however, may prepare the surfaces, such as by removing any surface oxides that could reduce bonding efficiency.
The bonding material 24 may be a solder, a thermocompression material or other material sufficient to accomplish the desired goals. If it is a solder, then conventional processes heat the bonding material 24 to a temperature and pressure sufficient to ensure intimate contact at the bond surfaces of the wafers. The temperature and time of contact should be sufficient to allow the rare earth metal to diffuse to the interface and promote adhesion between the wafer surfaces. Similarly, if using a cover layer on tin alloy/rare earth layers or aluminum alloy/rare earth layers, then this step allows the materials to interdiffuse such that the rare earth metal promotes adhesion between the wafer surfaces. The bonding material 24 of this embodiment thus connects between the top surface of each pedestal 20 and the face of the cap wafer 18.
Each pedestal 20 and accompanying bonding material 24 thus is considered to form a seal ring around its respective microstructure. It should be noted that use of the term "ring" should not be construed to suggest that the seal ring takes on any particular shape. Instead, each seal ring may be any reasonably appropriate shape as required by the application and chip design process. For example,
If it is a thermocompression material, then the process does not heat the bonding material 24 to its liquid phase. Instead, the process uses thermocompressive bonding techniques by applying forces at prespecified temperatures and times to achieve atomic scale contact of the bond surfaces, and allow the rare earth metal to diffuse to the interface to promote bonding between those surfaces. Of course, selection of an appropriate bonding material 24 (e.g., a rare earth metal with aluminum or an aluminum alloy) enables the method to reduce the thermocompression temperature.
Some embodiments do not use an entirely different cover layer material, such as gold, to prevent oxidation of the rare earth alloy layer. For example, a rare earth alloy with aluminum may simply use an aluminum cover layer to prevent oxidation. Specifically, as known by those skilled in the art, aluminum oxide is generally brittle and thus, should diffuse into the aluminum when subjected to high temperatures and pressures of a thermocompression process. Alternatively, the inventors believe that some rare earth alloys, such as the noted aluminum alloy, may not require a cover layer. Specifically, the inventors believe that aluminum oxide formed on the exposed face of the rare earth/aluminum alloy may substantially mitigate formation of oxides normally associated with rare earth metals.
The method concludes at step 206, which separates the dies from their respective wafers 16 and 18. Specifically, after permitting the coupled wafers 16 and 18 to cool a sufficient period of time, conventional dicing processes may cut the bonded wafers to produce a plurality of independent microchips 10. Among others, conventional saw or laser dicing processes may separate the dies 10.
Some embodiments may cut only one wafer, and cut the other wafer at a subsequent processing step. For example, the method may cut the cap wafer 18 only, thus exposing a portion of the device wafer 16 (e.g., exposing bond pads). Subsequent testing processes may use these bond pads to test the microchips 10 before dicing the device wafer 16.
Illustrative embodiments may use any of a number of techniques for aligning the cutting mechanism with the two bonded wafers. For example, some embodiments may use infrared sensors or other optical applications from the sides of the device wafer 16. Other embodiments may remove some of the bonding material 24 before bonding, or selectively deposit the bonding material 24 onto the cap wafer 18 to facilitate alignment vision systems.
Some embodiments use the bonding material 24 without the pedestals 20. Instead, in those cases, the bonding material 24 alone may act as the seal ring. In yet other embodiments, both wafers 16 and 18 have pedestals 20.
Accordingly, various embodiments of the invention provide a solution to a long felt need in the art. Specifically, among other things, the bonding material 24 provides a conductive bond that readily couples with a wide variety of material surfaces. The resulting bond, which may be formed between two wafers, two chips, or a chip and a wafer—with or sometimes without alignment—should take up less chip real estate. For example, a tin/rare earth, aluminum/rare earth, or aluminum-germanium/rare earth bonding material should provide a hermetic, conductive bond with a much smaller width than that of a conventional glass frit bond. Consequently, the bonding material 24 aids in reducing chip size, causing wafer fabrication yield to increase, thus driving down per-part costs. In addition, illustrative embodiments permit bonding by metalizing one of two surfaces only (e.g., only one wafer surface is metalized in a wafer-to-wafer bond).
Although the above discussion discloses various exemplary embodiments of the invention, it should be apparent that those skilled in the art can make various modifications that will achieve some of the advantages of the invention without departing from the true scope of the invention. In addition, characteristics of the described embodiments may be combined to yield similar results.
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Earlier this summer, I satisfied one of my childhood curiosities and purchased Sea Monkeys "In the City" Mini World from a local grocery store, just to see what would happen, and to know beyond a shadow of a doubt whether Sea Monkeys were real.To my surprise, the creatures living in cryostasis inside a magical packet of dust were, in fact, quite real. Soon after starting my Sea Monkey colony, my glass dome -- complete with miniature crosswalks, cars, and skyscrapers -- was bustling with life. In about one month's time, the little, white pebbles which lay dormant on the dome's floor had turned into several dozen floating white specs, all moving independently of each other. In about 3 months, the Sea Monkeys had grown in size, swam consciously throughout the bowl, and had even started mating with each other. Inside my little dome was the height of Sea Monkey civilization. If they had any tools or outside resources, they may have very well built Sea Monkey schools, universities, and hospitals by that point. However, it has now been almost six months since I started the colony, and now the Sea Monkey City is a very different place. Without a filter, the water has become a rather gelatinous primordial ooze. Sometimes, the waters will evaporate below the skyscraper line and I'll refill it with purified drinking water. Now, however, large water bubbles idle at the meniscus before congregating with the rest of the soupy mixture. Once clean and free of debris, the Sea Monkey City looks more like the stuff of "I Am Legend." Nature has reclaimed the city, as algae lines the streets and grows over the storefronts and skyscrapers. Of the many Sea Monkey citizens who once called Sea Monkey Manor their home, only six remain. Of the six, one of them is huge in comparison to the others. With it's tail, it probably measures a whole centimeter. He may very well be the next generation in Sea Monkey evolution, so I started calling him "Mr. Big." His polar opposite is another Sea Monkey who is smaller than the others, but for some reason happens to be black. "Mr. Black," for lack of a more creative name, seems to be kind of a loner. He spends a lot of time at the bottom of the tank, pondering and foraging for algae by himself. While the others are mating and swimming carelessly through the city ruins, Mr. Black spends his time deep in thought. Maybe he knows that the end is near. The four other Sea Monkeys seem not to grasp the gravity of the situation, but perhaps the end of Sea Monkey civilization is nigh. Only time will tell. Joel Hall covers goverment and politics for the Clayton News Daily. He can be reached via e-mail at email@example.com.
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Reggie Pegram (81 yards, TD), Jeffrey Wilson (57 yards), Erick Evans (53 yards, TD) and Antoinne Jimmerson (51 yards, TD) powered the running game for North Texas (1-1). Josh Greer threw for 86 yards on 9-of-12 passing.
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