| 摘要 |
Contact structures exhibiting resilience or compliance for a variety of electronic components are formed by bonding a free end of a wire (502) to a substrate (508), configuring the wire (530) into a wire stem (530) having a springable shape, severing the wire stem (530), and overcoating the wire stem (530) with at least one layer of a material (522). In an exemplary embodiment, a free end of a wire stem (530) is bonded to a contact area on a substrate (508), the wire stem (530) is configured to have a springable shape, the wire stem (530) is severed to be free- standing by an electrical discharge, and the free-standing wire stem is overcoated by plating. A variety of materials for the wire stem (530) (which serves as a falsework) and for the overcoat (540) (which serves as a superstructure over the falsework) are disclosed. The resilient contact structures described herein are ideal for making a "temporary" (probe) connections to an electronic component such as a semiconductor die, for burn-in and functional testing. |
