One more problem is the quality of the gold. I had more problems with
     'shiny' gold. It is shiny because they add Hg to it. This plays havoc
     with wire bonding.

     I generally did not have problems bonding to smooth surfaces, assuming
     the gold was bonded to the nickel. That brings up another point,
     sometimes we saw contamination at the Ni-Au interface.


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