Electronics Forum | Wed Dec 28 16:03:53 EST 2005 | Chris
I have lots of experience with thermosonic gold ball bonding. You can read the literature and you will probably find some papers that say you can do it. I have never been able to do it. We gold ball bond all day long with little problems at all bu
Electronics Forum | Mon Dec 22 16:09:02 EST 1997 | Justin Medernach
| I am designing an SMT pad for a ss metal switch. | Finished copper thickness is .0014 and nickle-plating | originally is 150 millionths. Initial testing yields 100,000 to 150,000 switches before intermitent failures (copper is reached.) I want 50
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. Copper weights range from 1 to 4g. Finish plating can be leaded solder, or any following RoHS-compliant finishes: lead-free solder, immersion gold, immersion silver, white tin, or OSP
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(from plating) and to the pad (from hot air leveling or other pcb solder-coating method), an intermetallic of tin-copper forms. This is typically Cu6Sn5 or Cu5Sn6 and this intermetallic is what causes the solder to adhere to the copper pads and leads
