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A project log for Integrated Circuit decapping without acid

IC are amazing, but always closed in eopch which seems impossible to remove. Here we propose a method to decap without acids

100dollarhacker100dollarhacker 01/10/2024 at 18:270 Comments

One of the problems of hot gun decapsulation is that always there is some kind of residue left. This obscure the image. For example:

You can see some gray material between two bonding wires (or should I say what left from them) 

Now let's clean it up with some plasma and ultrasound bath. Now we get

Now it looks like the gray material is gone!

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