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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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Re: [TN] Strange tin "migration" under OFN soldered with no-clean SAC305 
solder paste






I'm not sure; I'm getting my information second hand.

Thanks

-------------------
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,

Ioan Tempea, ing.
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----- Forwarded by Karen Tellefsen/AlphaMetalsUS/Cookson on 06/12/2009
10:47 AM -----

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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

Karen Tellefsen - Electrical Testing
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(See attached file: Strange tin migration.JPG)




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