WAFER LEVEL CAMERAS - NOVEL FABRICATION AND PACKAGING TECHNOLOGIES

The increasing demand for more functions and features coming along with cost reduction plays a significant role in today's product design and manufacturing technologies of mobile devices such as PDAs, laptop computer and mobile phones. Besides the main function of the device, imaging is considered as core feature by the user and major mobile phone manufacturers. Therefore the industry puts a lot of effort onto performance improvements and the optimization of the manufacturing method of mobile phone cameras. Wafer Level Camera (WLC) is supposed to be the technology of choice to address these requirements.