Electronics Forum | Mon Apr 26 11:04:53 EDT 1999 | Dave F
| | Earl said, in essence: | | | | | Justin is absolutely right ... | | | | | | Again, Entek is not much more than a flux coating ... | | | | | | Metallic coatings protect best, as we all know - especially those electroplated. Those coatings chemi
Electronics Forum | Tue Jun 05 21:14:10 EDT 2001 | davef
You aren't going to post our stuff on your "Hey, I'm the wizard site", are you? Board fab, Pad coatings, OSP 1 OSPs: Imidazole (Via Systems) is good. Entek (Enthone) works, but requires strict thickness control in fab. 2 Enthone CU56 allows one t
Electronics Forum | Mon Jun 21 09:58:25 EDT 1999 | Christopher Cross
| | Now don't everyone jump on this at once, but it seems time for me to send out copies of my not even close to being dated copy of an article about HASL. Though it was published in 1992, in Printed Circuit Fabrication Magazine, and it got rave revi
Electronics Forum | Mon Apr 26 16:14:08 EDT 1999 | John W
| Hi Murray! | | Justin pretty much summed things up...covered all the points. So I'm just gonna give you my preference of what I like other than HASL finish. | | Electroless Nickle/Immersion Gold...nice flat pads...hmmmmmmm, Steve likes flat pads.
Electronics Forum | Mon Apr 26 17:45:26 EDT 1999 | Earl Moon
| | | Earl said, in essence: | | | | | | | Justin is absolutely right ... | | | | | | | | Again, Entek is not much more than a flux coating ... | | | | | | | | Metallic coatings protect best, as we all know - especially those electroplated. Those
Electronics Forum | Tue May 26 21:27:33 EDT 1998 | Earl Moon
| | | | | I'm reviewing my board fab spec. It calls for a minimum SnPb thickness of 50 microinches on HASL PWB's. I've looked at other specs that call out anything from 30 to 80 microinches, and others that just say the copper pad must be covered a
Electronics Forum | Wed May 27 11:19:34 EDT 1998 | Earl Moon
| | | | | | I'm reviewing my board fab spec. It calls for a minimum SnPb thickness of 50 microinches on HASL PWB's. I've looked at other specs that call out anything from 30 to 80 microinches, and others that just say the copper pad must be covered
Electronics Forum | Mon Aug 27 15:06:29 EDT 2001 | davef
This otta push Wolfgang over the top ... Recommended reading G.G. Harman, Wire Bonding in Microelectronics : Materials, Processes, Reliability, and Yield, 2nd edition, McGraw-Hill Electronic Packaging and Interconnection Series, 1997. G.G. Harman, R