Screen printing and chip flipping techniques for large area hybrid pixel detectors bonding

In the last few years hybrid silicon pixel detectors came to use in high energy physics. One of the most serious problems is the realization of detectors and read out electronics interconnection at high density and low cost. For the upgrade in the forward direction of the DELPHI silicon vertex detector, it has been successfully carried out the bonding of pixel detectors to VLSI read out chips by means of conductive glue screen printing followed by a precise chip flipping procedure. The measured missing contact rate is (0.05±0.03)%.