Hi Rob,
Shengyi S1170 or any other PCB resin—bake at any temperature is no substitute for a bad lamination process—your boards are scrap if the problem is bad lamination.
You need to understand what happens during the lamination process.
1) the purpose of the lamination process is to a) join the laminate layers by using the prepreg layers, and b) to fill the spaces where Cu was etched away with resin;
2) the prepreg layers consist of sheets of woven glass impregnated with partially cured resin;
3) during lamination, the pressure first facilitates good heat transfer from the press platens, the resin partially liquefies, excess resin is squeezed out [the amount depends on whether you use regular, low-flow, or no-flow prepregs] forming beats around the panel circumference;
4) adequate heating in the lamination press results in the curing of the prepreg resin [however, the cure is never totally complete—it takes too long—that is why the resin content in prepreg layers is higher than in laminate layers and the layers have different properties];
5) delaminations can occur for two reasons: a) not enough curing time in the lamination press, b) too much pressure in the lamination press resulting in resin-starved prepreg layer.
You need to determine which of these two root causes you have—but in neither case will baking at any temperature improve what you have—SCRAP.
Werner
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Dewey,
The laminate material is Shengyi S1170.
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You didn't say what the laminate material was, but even at that I would not
accept PBs that were baked at 180ºC for two hours.
Dewey
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Sorry for not letting this thread die but... we are still battling with our PCB
supplier with regards to baking PCBs at 180C for 2 hours.
We started to see delimitation again and the root cause was an insufficient
pressing time. The center boards in the stack when pressing did not reach the
required temperature. The corrective action is to bake all PBCs at 180C for 2
hours. We do not agree with this corrective action. I would like to know why
180C??
My assumption here is we are not dealing with PCB moisture absorption (water),
we are dealing with uncured prepreg. I assume that requires a higher
temperature to complete the curing process?
Would anyone out there accept reworked boards that were baked at 180C for 2
hours due to the above root cause? BTY, boards are ENIG.
Rob Strecker
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Hi Ioan,
I agree with Werner.
As you know we have performed reliability testing on almost every material
available for PWB fabrication in almost every PWB configuration. We test both
the copper and material reliability.
A moderate bake at 105°C is adequate for all but exotic materials (which may
have volatiles other then water). What is often overlooked is many low Tg
materials, particularly if the PWB has sequential lamination processing, are
greatly degraded by baking near 125°C. I mean by degradation, the inherent
strength of the dielectric is degraded, chemically changed. Concurrently, along
with the degradation, the increased force attributed to the difference in vapor
pressure of water at 105°C compared to 125°C conspire to damage the PWB. It is
better to remove the water slowly at a lower temperature, that is less degrading
to the dielectric, and produces less force from increased vapor pressure.
You have to consider the fabrication process, material robustness, product build
and surface finish degradation in selecting the bake temperature. Generally a
lower temperature is better for overall PWB reliability.
Stay away from temperatures near Tg as measured by TMA.
Sincerely,
Paul Reid
Program Coordinator
PWB Interconnect Solutions Inc.
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afford Rd., West, Unit 103
Nepean, Ontario
Canada, K2H 9C1
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Dear Technos,
I know this has been oftenly discussed here, but I would like to lively up the
traffic a little bit...
Is there any IPC standard reglementing the bake out time for PCBs, in terms of
temperature/dwell time?
Thanks,
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