And since the problem has been solved, it's time to get back to the original question Antonio asked. :-)
There are a few things to keep in mind about intermetallics. First of all, at a given reflow profile its thickness will depend on the substrate (or lead frame in that case) material (finish). Alloy 42 will form an extremely thin layer (sometimes barely seen), while Cu - the thickest one (with Ni and it's "combinations" will be somewhere in between).
There are no written numbers for either case (substrate). People usually say: it has be not thin and not thick. I usually "happy" if see something around 1 - 2 micron (not microinches, which I normally wouldn't see :-)) for either one.
There are a few papers showing that if the thickness of a Cu/Sn intermetallics layer exceeds 5 - 7 microns, its fracture toughness drops (which isn't necessarily a very bad thing, but I would be alerted).
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Victor,
A micrometer (micron) is a millionth of a meter.
A microinch is a millionth of an inch.
An inch is smaller than a meter.
Therefore a micrinch is smaller than a micrometer.
You may be getting confused with nanometers which are a millionth of a millimetre and are indeed, very small.
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> From: TechNet [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Victor G.
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> I have been stating all along that MICRONS are a SMALLER unit of
> measure than MICRO INCHES.
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> Victor,
>
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> Hi Victor,
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> Victor G. Hernandez wrote:
> > Microns are smaller units of measure than MICRO INCHES.
>
> You seem to be confusing microinches with mils. One microinch is
> thousandth of mil, which is thousandth of inch. One microinch is
> 0.0254 microns.
>
> Indrek,
> Actually a proponent of the SI (Metric) system.
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