Electronics Forum | Mon Aug 23 11:27:00 EDT 1999 | Dave F
0.6 �m (25 micro inches) and self-limit around 5 mils depending on the material being plated and the process. Similarly with white tin, laminates with cleaned copper are immersed in a series of tin baths without an external source of electric curren
Electronics Forum | Fri Aug 21 14:38:00 EDT 1998 | Earl Moon
| It's been one hell of a week.... | From personal experience, what are the most common causes for embrittlement of the solder joint? I just need to make sure I've got all my bases covered. | thanks | -Ben Right on. Yago sangria. Chili conceso. That'
Electronics Forum | Wed Aug 26 00:16:08 EDT 1998 | Jeff Sanchez
| | It's been one hell of a week.... | | From personal experience, what are the most common causes for embrittlement of the solder joint? I just need to make sure I've got all my bases covered. | | thanks | | -Ben | Right on. Yago sangria. Chili conc
Electronics Forum | Wed Aug 22 22:22:52 EDT 2001 | davef
First an administrative point, you can edit the postings that you make on SMTnet. Look for the yellowish-greenish EDIT button at the top of your posting. Second there are over 170 postings on intermetallic* on the fine SMTnet Production Forum Archi
Electronics Forum | Fri May 17 15:53:47 EDT 2002 | davef
Based on what you�ve said, comments are: * There is no reason not to expect a trace of Zn in your 85/15 Sn/Pb solderability protection, but Sn/Cu IMC are more prevalent than Zn. * Intermetallic growth and oxidation are very different materials proper
Electronics Forum | Wed Jan 22 14:53:50 EST 2003 | MA/NY DDave
Hi I thought I would come back to this one for a second. Joe Fox above gave a nice concise note as to why you must raise the temp high enough above the soldering melting temp (liquidus) yet not too high. You want to go high enough for paste so tha
Electronics Forum | Tue Apr 13 22:48:11 EDT 2004 | Ken
I assumed the balls were tin/silver 221C or tin/silver/copper 218C liquiduous....but, this is obviously not the case. It looks like you balls are almost pure tin (mp=238C) You are correct. This is exactly the same as using 10/90 high temp balls o
Electronics Forum | Tue Jun 01 10:11:00 EDT 2004 | davef
Intermetallic growth is a diffusion process, the thickness of the intermetallic is given by: z^2 = (Do)(t)exp[-Q/RT] Where Do (m2 s-1) is the diffusion coefficient, T(�K) is the temperature, Q (J mol-1) is the activation energy and R (8.314 J mo
Electronics Forum | Tue Oct 26 08:41:56 EDT 2004 | Bob R.
When we first got into BGAs on ENIG we were getting joint cracking at in-circuit test. The joints were breaking in the Sn-Ni intermetallic. We did a lot of pull testing while working with our board suppliers and our conclusion was that pull testing
Electronics Forum | Fri Apr 07 11:19:55 EDT 2006 | muse95
Technically speaking, most likely yes it will work, unless possibly it is a BGA. There are issues surrounding BGA's. Here are some of the general issues: On any type of component, if the Pbfree solder you are using contains bismuth, then the Pb in
