New Equipment | Fabrication Services
Multilayer PCB's ACI manufactures a wide variety of Multilayer PCB's for various applications spanning numerous industries and technologies. We can build your high layer count PCB's using a wide variety of high speed low loss materials from epoxies
Electronics Forum | Mon Jan 03 16:34:10 EST 2005 | davef
The main advantage if ENIG over HASL is that ENIG is flat and HASL generally is not. The main disadvanages to ENIG over HASL are: * Cost of ENIG is 1.5 - 2X higher than HASL * Selflife is less than HASL * You solder to nickel, rather than copper * E
Electronics Forum | Tue Jan 04 12:37:41 EST 2005 | Cmiller
We have been using this finish almost exclusively for fine pitch boards for about 5 years. Make SURE you use a board house that does the gold plating in-house. There are some potential issues as DaveF stated. The only problem we have encountered is w
Industry News | 2003-03-31 09:51:04.0
The SMTA has formed the SMTA International Technical Committee for 2003.
Industry News | 2016-07-02 06:45:13.0
IPC — Association Connecting Electronics Industries® has extended the deadline of their invitation for engineers, researchers, academics, technical experts and industry leaders to submit abstracts for IPC APEX EXPO 2017 to be held at the San Diego Convention Center. Professional development courses will take place February 12, 13 and 16, 2017 and the technical conference will take place February 14–16, 2017. The extended deadline is July 8, 2016.
Technical Library | 2013-01-17 15:34:33.0
The use of an electroless nickel, immersion gold (ENIG) surface finish comes with the inherent potential risk of Black Pad failures that can cause fracture embrittlement at the interface between the solder and the metal pad. As yet, there is no conclusive agreed solution to effectively eliminate Black Pad failures. The case studies presented are intended to add to the understanding of the Black Pad failure mechanism and to identify both the plating and the subsequent assembly processes and conditions that can help to prevent the likelihood of Black Pad occurring.
Technical Library | 2023-01-06 16:09:03.0
The 4-14 IPC Standards Committee recently created a revision to the IPC4552 specification for Electroless Nickel/Immersion Gold (ENIG) finished Printed Circuit Boards (PCB). Revision A brings a more comprehensive evaluation of metal layer thicknesses measurement, composition and introduces, for the first time, a quality aspect for nickel corrosion which has been historically connected to a defect called black line nickel or black pad.
smeared solder paste pattern. A typical pad size for
Surface Mount Technology Association (SMTA) | https://www.smta.org/smtai/call_for_papers.cfm
-Computed Tomography Multiphysics Modeling Substrates and Finishes Thermal Management Tin Whiskers PCB Technology: Bio-Compatible Substrates Black Pad and Surface Finish Defects Conductive Anodic Filament (CAF
Heller Industries Inc. | https://hellerindustries.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/last-will-of-bga-void.pdf
] Investigation Specifics: 84 I/O Plastic CSP, daisy chained, 0.3mm (12 mil) diameter solderballs Sn63 solder paste Test vehicle: Characteristics not available, Immersion Silver (IAg) and ENIG finishes Thermal cycling: 0°C-100