topic of Pd seems to be very interesting these days - everyone is looking at
it - at a glance. Please take note that there is a difference in a plated Pd
deposit - and an electroless Pd deposit. Electroplated Pd - has the inclusion
of organic additives that plate with the deposit, electroless Pd doesn't.
There is a paper written by IBM in the 97 IPC Expo proceedings that i think
could answer a lot of questions - but i know that in speaking with the
circuit manufacturers - they are not making a distinction between the two
type of deposits - while the board designers - or OEM's as they are called -
are. Majority of OEM's have done a lot of in-house studies - the fabricators
have not.

Regards

Richard Fudalewski
Atotech Canada Ltd

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