Electronics Forum | Tue Jul 14 07:23:50 EDT 2020 | researchmfg
There is a misunderstanding that people think the IMC layer grows the thicker the stronger soldering strength. The IMC layer can be grown and distributed evenly at the interface location will be good enough. Once the IMC layer grows too thick and ove
Electronics Forum | Fri Mar 14 15:14:31 EDT 2008 | samir
Dean, thanks for schooling me on this. I talked to an industry collegue whom I met at APEX, and it was he who had told me of the IAg "rework issue." Basically, he told me that they had field failures on QFPs that were a direct result of trying to "
Electronics Forum | Fri Mar 14 11:04:54 EDT 2008 | herman
Samir, To correct some misconceptions on the answers to your question, and "what you know from experience": With both ENIG (Electroless Nickel/Immersion Gold-IAu) and IAg (immersion silver), soldering does not take place to the gold or the silver. Wh
Electronics Forum | Thu Mar 28 14:04:16 EST 2002 | davef
Intermetalic Layer (IL). A compound formed at the interface of two different metals, whose atoms have an extremely high natural attraction for each other, so high, that they do not bond to other elements by any other means. Also, intermetalic compo
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