Due to the increasing cost of materials used to make electronic components, the electronics industry has been rapidly moving from high cost gold to significantly lower cost copper as a wire bonding material. However, copper wire bonding has several process and reliability concerns due to its material properties. Copper Wire Bonding provides an in-depth presentation of copper wire bonding technologies, processes and equipment, along with the economic benefits and risks. In particular, this book lays out the challenges involved in replacing gold with copper as a wire bond material, and includes...