High strength, reliable bulk metallic glass (BMG) solder materials formed
from alloys possessing deep eutectics with asymmetric liquidous slopes.
BMG solder materials are stronger and have a higher elastic modulus than,
and therefore are less likely than crystalline solder materials to damage
fragile low k interlayer dielectric (ILD) materials due to thermal stress
in materials with different coefficients of thermal expansion (CTE).BMG
solder materials may physically, electrically, or thermally couple a
feature to another feature, or any combination thereof. For example, in
an embodiment of the invention, a BMG solder material may physically and
electrically couple an electronic component to a printed circuit board.
In another embodiment of the invention, a BMG solder material may
physically and thermally couple an integrated heat sink to a
semiconductor device.Many embodiments of a BMG solder material are also
lead-free, so they comply with lead-free product requirements, while
providing a better solution than other lead-free solder materials such as
tin-silver-copper.