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Gold and Palladium Plating

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#68972

Gold and Palladium Plating | 17 May, 2013

What is the disadvantage of palladium plating instead of gold plating? I saw many advantage of palladium plating in term of hardness, wear resistance, and price but why most of the PCB Industries still use gold in PCB pad? Thank you

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#68977

Gold and Palladium Plating | 17 May, 2013

ENEPIG or Imm Pd?

Concerns about palladium as a solderability protection are: * Palladium is more difficult to process in fab than gold * Palladium solder alloys can be brittle, similar to gold, without proper soldering process and/or specification/receipt of the correct palladium thickness.

Recognize that: * Palladium doesn't wet as well as gold * Dissolution rate of palladium is much slower than gold

BR davef

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