Electronics Forum | Wed Sep 29 17:59:59 EDT 2004 | gregoryyork
I would be interested in this as well. Can you forward me some details. thanks Greg York Technical Sales Manager BLT Circuit Services Ltd - UK
Electronics Forum | Fri Jun 27 16:00:29 EDT 2014 | davef
For lid sealing, a seam seal machine will be used which produces only localized heat on the joint, so any components inside the package soldered with Au/Sn will be unaffected by the final process. [ http://www.coininginc.com/files/admin/english_gold_
Electronics Forum | Mon Feb 19 18:57:49 EST 2001 | davef
Expanding on the limit of the portion of gold acceptable in a solder connection [mentioned in an earlier post]: The embrittlement culprit, AuSn4, is 29 weight percent gold. So even if one had 100% tin as the solder alloy and 10% gold were dissolved
Electronics Forum | Thu Sep 17 07:06:15 EDT 1998 | joakim fagerlund
We have problems with voids when we solder lids to ceramic flatpackages. The sealring of the package is gold(100 micro inches or 2.5 micro meters)with a underlayer of Nickel The solder is attached to the lid (preform) and the solder material is Au/S
Electronics Forum | Thu Oct 25 16:48:29 EDT 2001 | Cemal Basaran
We can inspect and measure strain field in anything larger than 320nm with Laser techniques we have. We can do this measurements during fatigue testing. Of course thick intermetallic region as a solid region is a problem due to the fact that you ha
Electronics Forum | Wed Apr 05 11:55:28 EDT 2006 | Cristina Oanca
I am working on a Substrate attach process. The package is gold plated, the preform is AuSn and the backing on the substrate is PdAg. I am using a Sikama reflow furnace. The profile has a 50 sec dwell time. I am over 280 degees C for a little over 1
Electronics Forum | Sat Apr 14 09:28:58 EDT 2007 | davef
When soldering a component to a board, the solderability protection on the component combines with the solderability protection on the board and the solder to form an alloy. This alloy is unique for that combination of solder and solderability protec
Electronics Forum | Mon Jan 17 17:38:29 EST 2011 | bandjwet
All: I am reaching out to get some suggestions on the right flux to use as well as a recommended cleaning process for soldering a KOVAR RF shield using 80/20 Au/Sn solder to a ceramic hybrid. The recommended profile is 4-5 min at 280C and at least
Electronics Forum | Tue May 21 16:18:57 EDT 2019 | edhare
Interesting problem. I've seen this before on SMT device leads (see Gold Embrittlement paper at http://www.semlab.com). The AuSn4 IMC is solid at typical reflow temperatures and traps volatiles in the solder joint. One usually cannot crank the ref
Electronics Forum | Thu Dec 08 07:55:16 EST 2005 | davef
Your understanding of the situation is correct. In both cases, you solder to the nickel. The gold [Au] protects the nickel from oxidation. When soldering, the gold moves into solution in the solder and forms an intermetallic compound [IMC] with th