Solder mask defined pads or non-so
Electrolytic Ni-Au or ENIG?
Solder mask defined pads or non-solder mask defined pads?
Has any ionic contamination measurement been done of the PCB before assembly?
All of the above questions are asked to determine if there is any plating chemistry trapped that isn't cleaned off before assembly.
However, when the customer indicates they don't see the Sn migration with SnPb assembly I'd go back to your statement earlier about the flux-vehicle in the SAC solder paste is most likely different than for the SnPb paste and has to be considered a suspect.
Regards,
George
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Subject: Re: [TN] Strange tin "migration" under OFN soldered with no-clean SAC305 solder paste
More information from our tech service engineer:
There is no hand soldering.
The board is Ni-Au
The boards are clean... no issue with Sn Pb
Could it be galvanic corrosion with exposed Ni or Au acting as a cathode,
allowing the tin in the solder joint to corrode? Maybe there is some metal
surface on the QFN that can act as a cathode.
There's no externally applied voltage, maybe there is a battery somewhere
on the board.
Karen Tellefsen - Electrical Testing
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Dave Hillman wrote:
Hi Karen - you should attempt to determine if any ionic contamination is
present - you could just have a typical electrochemical migration issue to
due contamination.
Dave Hillman
Rockwell Collins
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I'm not sure; I'm getting my information second hand.
Thanks
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Karen,
Are you sure this is migration? They might very well be plain shorts from
excess of solder or manual component realignment before reflow. Has the
assembler checked the components under X-Ray before the conditioning, just
to make sure everything is clean at the exit of the oven?
Just a thought,
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Strange tin "migration" under OFN
soldered with no-clean SAC305
solder paste
One of our technical service engineers asked me about a strange migration
phenomenon one of our customers observed under passives and QFN's that
have
been soldered with one of our no-clean SAC305 solder pastes. I've attached
an X-ray picture of a QFN exhibiting this strange failure, but I don't
know
how it can be posted so you can look at it.. Further analysis after
removing the component showed that the shadows in the X-ray picture is
caused by a black material containing tin. The boards were conditioned
85°C
85%RH for 500 hr, but no voltage was applied. This phenomenon was not
observed under QFPs (not surprising), and seems to be independent of
reflow
profile used. Additionally, the customer has not seen anything like this
with tin lead solder paste, however, the tin-lead solder pastes would have
a different fluxes. The tin "migration" is coming from both adjacent
solder joints, and there is no voltage applied, so it seems to be a
corrosion problem. Certainly QFN and big passives are good at trapping
and
retaining water in the flux residue underneath them.
I've never seen anything like this; has anyone else out in TechNet land
seen this or have any ideas what caused this?
Thanks
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