Electronics Forum | Tue Nov 15 21:06:04 EST 2005 | davef
Is your IMC purple? [The sure way to tell if you have the 'purple plague'.] Where does the failure occur? * At pad / wire bond * Up wire from the bond Tell us about the aluminum pad. * What is the plating specification? Is that what you actually r
Electronics Forum | Tue Nov 15 09:31:27 EST 2005 | arclightzero
I have been reading a good deal about IMC (purple plague in particular) in gold wire/aluminum pad wire bonds. My company uses ultrasonic wedge bonding, and for the most part all of our bonding is gold/gold, however we have one particulr part that has