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A Novel Electroless Nickel Immersion Gold (ENIG) Surface Finish for Robust Solder Joints and Better Reliability of Electronic Assemblies
Conventional Electroless Nickel/Immersion Gold (ENIG) currently available in the market is prone to brittle solder joints failures. Due to these reasons, there are field failures and reliabi
.. read more
Conformal Coatings: State of the Industry Versus State of the Art
The excellent IPC-TR-587 technical report, ‘Conformal Coating Material and Application ‘‘State of the Industry’’ Assessment’ delivers the results of a recent major study on conformal coating
.. read more
Ammonia Gas Effect on Metal Corrosion of PCB Surface Finish-in Acid-Gases Based Mixed Flowing-Gas Test
The proliferation of Artificial Intelligence (AI), big data, 5G, electric vehicles, Internet of Things (IoT), Edge Computing,High Performance Computing (HPC) and Electric Vehicle (EV) in rec
.. read more
A Novel Electroless Nickel Immersion Gold (ENIG) Surface Finish for Better Reliability of Electronic Assemblies
Conventional Electroless Nickel/Immersion Gold (ENIG) currently available in the market is prone to black-pad defects (hyper-corrosion related failures) associated with de-wetting of solder. EN
.. read more
Corrosion Resistant Servers for Free-Air Cooling Data Centers
The demand for compute capability is growing rapidly fueling the ever rising consumption of power by data centers the worldwide. This growth in power consumption presents a challenge to data ce
.. read more
Plasma Polymerization: A Versatile and Attractive Process for Conformal Coating
The use of plasma processing in the manufacture of electronics is growing as we discover more and more applications for this technology. It is now common for plasma etching and cleaning to be u
.. read more
Corrosion Resistance of Different PCB Surface Finishes in Harsh Environments
Corrosion resistance is becoming one of the most important topics in the electronics industry. Corrosion results in field
failures and huge losses,which annually total several billion U.S. doll
.. read more
Testing the Long Term Reliability of an Environmentally Friendly PCB Final Finish
The new plasma polymer PCB final finish that eliminates harsh chemicals and waste streams also promises to eliminate creep corrosion,but will it stand the test of time? Before any new produc
.. read more
Creep Corrosion of PWB Final Finishes: Its Cause and Prevention
As the electronic industry moves to lead-free assembly and finer-pitch circuits,widely used printed wiring board (PWB) finish,SnPb HASL,has been replaced with lead-free and coplanar PWB finishe
.. read more
Future Lead-Free Solder Alloys and Fluxes – Meeting Challenges of Miniaturization
In general,new lead-free solder alloys with the following characteristics are desired in order to enable the continuation of miniaturization trend: (1) alloy with a reduced melting temperature,
.. read more
Corrosion Resistance of PWB Final Finishes
As the electronic industry is moving to lead-free PWB final finishes and high density circuit boards,the widely used PWB finish,SnPb HASL,has to be replaced with a lead-free and coplanar PWB fi
.. read more
Liquid Tin Corrosion and Lead Free Wave Soldering
Corrosion of solder pots and solder pot components in wave soldering equipment has been reduced with the introduction of corrosion resistant coatings and improved lead free solder alloys. The l
.. read more
Corrosion Factor and Effects of Tin - Zinc Lead-Free Solder on Copper Substrate in Environmental Tests
We coated copper substrate with tin-zinc lead-free solder (Sn-9Zn and Sn-8Zn-3Bi),and then we performed the following
corrosion tests: the salt mist test,the gas corrosion test,and the weatheri
.. read more
A Novel Electroless Nickel Immersion Gold (ENIG) Surface Finish for Robust Solder Joints and Better Reliability of Electronic Assemblies
Conventional Electroless Nickel/Immersion Gold (ENIG) currently available in the market is prone to brittle solder joints failures. Due to these reasons, there are field failures and reliabi
.. read more
Conformal Coatings: State of the Industry Versus State of the Art
The excellent IPC-TR-587 technical report, ‘Conformal Coating Material and Application ‘‘State of the Industry’’ Assessment’ delivers the results of a recent major study on conformal coating
.. read more
Ammonia Gas Effect on Metal Corrosion of PCB Surface Finish-in Acid-Gases Based Mixed Flowing-Gas Test
The proliferation of Artificial Intelligence (AI), big data, 5G, electric vehicles, Internet of Things (IoT), Edge Computing,High Performance Computing (HPC) and Electric Vehicle (EV) in rec
.. read more
A Novel Electroless Nickel Immersion Gold (ENIG) Surface Finish for Better Reliability of Electronic Assemblies
Conventional Electroless Nickel/Immersion Gold (ENIG) currently available in the market is prone to black-pad defects (hyper-corrosion related failures) associated with de-wetting of solder. EN
.. read more
Corrosion Resistant Servers for Free-Air Cooling Data Centers
The demand for compute capability is growing rapidly fueling the ever rising consumption of power by data centers the worldwide. This growth in power consumption presents a challenge to data ce
.. read more
Plasma Polymerization: A Versatile and Attractive Process for Conformal Coating
The use of plasma processing in the manufacture of electronics is growing as we discover more and more applications for this technology. It is now common for plasma etching and cleaning to be u
.. read more
Corrosion Resistance of Different PCB Surface Finishes in Harsh Environments
Corrosion resistance is becoming one of the most important topics in the electronics industry. Corrosion results in field
failures and huge losses,which annually total several billion U.S. doll
.. read more
Testing the Long Term Reliability of an Environmentally Friendly PCB Final Finish
The new plasma polymer PCB final finish that eliminates harsh chemicals and waste streams also promises to eliminate creep corrosion,but will it stand the test of time? Before any new produc
.. read more
Creep Corrosion of PWB Final Finishes: Its Cause and Prevention
As the electronic industry moves to lead-free assembly and finer-pitch circuits,widely used printed wiring board (PWB) finish,SnPb HASL,has been replaced with lead-free and coplanar PWB finishe
.. read more
Future Lead-Free Solder Alloys and Fluxes – Meeting Challenges of Miniaturization
In general,new lead-free solder alloys with the following characteristics are desired in order to enable the continuation of miniaturization trend: (1) alloy with a reduced melting temperature,
.. read more
Corrosion Resistance of PWB Final Finishes
As the electronic industry is moving to lead-free PWB final finishes and high density circuit boards,the widely used PWB finish,SnPb HASL,has to be replaced with a lead-free and coplanar PWB fi
.. read more
Liquid Tin Corrosion and Lead Free Wave Soldering
Corrosion of solder pots and solder pot components in wave soldering equipment has been reduced with the introduction of corrosion resistant coatings and improved lead free solder alloys. The l
.. read more
Corrosion Factor and Effects of Tin - Zinc Lead-Free Solder on Copper Substrate in Environmental Tests
We coated copper substrate with tin-zinc lead-free solder (Sn-9Zn and Sn-8Zn-3Bi),and then we performed the following
corrosion tests: the salt mist test,the gas corrosion test,and the weatheri
.. read more