Electronics Forum | Tue Jul 13 16:35:25 EDT 2004 | Richard
Sounds like your Si plalladium finish has oxide on it from the firing or sitting around too long. I used to assemble LTCC and have had plenty of dealings with this matter. The best and easiest is to get an active type flux and solder paste. AIM makes
Electronics Forum | Thu Oct 18 18:39:15 EDT 2001 | davef
Responding to your questions ... RELIABILITY OF 1% SILVER SOLDER PASTE: It�s as good as the next solder paste, all other things the same. Look at your back articles by Jennie Hang in SMT magazine. I want to say she wrote an article on the topic i
Electronics Forum | Fri Aug 13 16:54:20 EDT 2004 | davef
If the terminations on your components are not barrier plated, you must be very careful about the amount of time you stay above liquidous. As you'd expect, longer is not better. The longer you stay at liquidous, the more of the component terminatio
Electronics Forum | Mon Jan 27 10:09:33 EST 2020 | charliedci
Looks like a screen printed circuit using a platinum or palladium silver paste. This would account for the grainy appearance. I 've seen this on a white ceramic substrate but not on aluminum. Any components are attached using a silver conductive epox
Electronics Forum | Wed Apr 18 08:14:20 EDT 2007 | davef
Silver palladium termination * AgPd-terminated capacitors are designed for conductive adhesion. Reflow or wave soldering is not recommended. [EPCOS Multilayer ceramic capacitors, Soldering directions, October 2006] * CONDUCTIVE EPOXY BONDING. Epoxy c
Electronics Forum | Thu Sep 30 10:14:33 EDT 2004 | davef
USING CONDUCTIVE EPOXY: Epoxies do not bond well to tin or tin alloy surfaces. * For components: a silver-palladium or gold end termination is recommended. * For substrates: gold over nickel should work well. Remember epoxy is not hermetic, and ox
Electronics Forum | Tue May 23 09:50:37 EDT 2006 | flipit
They work well in silver conductive epoxy in hybrid applications. They are very poor in no clean applications. They don't work that well in OA solder paste either. Used them once in OA paste and in a nitrogen. They looked just fine. Solder to Pd
Electronics Forum | Tue Oct 23 07:03:52 EDT 2007 | davef
We're not really sure. Usually when solder leaves the pads and wicks-up a component lead, it means the component lead is much warmer than the pad on the board. This is the direction we would have taken this if we hadn't taken the AgPd / conductive e
Electronics Forum | Thu Sep 10 09:47:15 EDT 1998 | Earl Moon
| hi, | 1206 capacitor with silver/palladium termination is mounted onto a ceramics substrates. Bonding is achieved through conductive epoxy. | We discovered that the epoxy cracked and this caused missing capacitor. We had tried different grade of e
Electronics Forum | Wed Sep 09 21:20:26 EDT 1998 | Simon Ting
hi, 1206 capacitor with silver/palladium termination is mounted onto a ceramics substrates. Bonding is achieved through conductive epoxy. We discovered that the epoxy cracked and this caused missing capacitor. We had tried different grade of epoxy,