The micro/nano hardness is dependent of the nucleus growth > morphology. As far as I remember, there are three main types of grains: flakes, smoothy and powdered. These give various hardness. The size of the grains and the crystal directions also give variations in the hardness, as well as the thickness. Small bath contaminations, like AuCN can add further hardness. It's interesting to see that someone asks for the hardness of IG, because we have never succeeded to measure such thin gold platings. If you measure thicker gold, you are not so dependent of what I said above. So, for thicker films we use the following data:
5 grams= 215 HV
10grams= 220 HV
20grams= 200 HV
40grams= 220 HV
60grams= 223 HV
80grams= 225 HV
100gram= 225 HV
Inge
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By pure chemistry of deposit - IAu should be 60 to 70 knoop microhardness
However since deposit is 0.05 um you would measure the underneath NiP hardness which is in 950Hv range.
Electrolytic Gold / Cobalt 0.2% should be 170 knoop. Electrolytic Nickel pure below Gold is 300 Hv.
Anil Kher
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From: Vladimir Igoshev [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Tuesday, November 03, 2009 09:03
Subject: Re: IAu hardness
Chris,
In that particular case the surface roughness does matter a lot. Ideally, an indenter should come at 90 degree to the surface and it wouldn't be the case particularly for ENIG with its "nodding structure".
In addition, as I said before you can not compare the numbers as (in case of
ENIG) the reading most probably will be affected by residual stresses.
I'm not aware of a "typical" number for ENIG. A number of years ago I tried to measure it at different loads but don't remember what the readings were.
Honestly, I wouldn't use nanohardness (great technique but for different
tasks) in your particular case.
Regards,
Vladimir
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From: Chris Mahanna <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 22:12:04
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Subject: Re: [TN] IAu hardness
Vladimir,
Indeed nano. Both platings were tested with the exact same protocol:
Berkovich geometry, 1mN max load. They are reporting penetration depth in nM. The lab complained about the surface being too rough. Might the IAu be un-uniform and the indenter is getting ahold of some Ni? XRF with 4mil collimator doesn't show anything odd. Saw some mudcracks via SEM on a "related" sample.
Or, should we just punt and say that comparisons can't be made? If so,
does anyone know what numbers you typically get from ENIG?
Chris
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Sent: Monday, November 02, 2009 9:34 PM
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Subject: Re: [TN] IAu hardness
Hi Chris,
Are you sure you are talking about nanohardness and not microhardness?
If it's nanohardness, then the measured values are completely different from a common (microhardness) method due to the nature of nanohardness measurements.
Secondly (and even more important) on a plated sample (and particularly like ENIG with extremely thin layer of Au) the nanohardness readings will depend on the indentation load (read depth of penetration).
In general, you can not draw a direct comparison between nanohardness measurements done on a thick (your hard gold case) and extremely thin (ENIG
case) plating.
Regards,
Vladimir
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Sent: Nov 2, 2009 21:17
Subject: [TN] IAu hardness
Please help a simple EE.
From bare printed boards we are receiving nano-identation (hardness) values for hard (I assume Cobalt) gold in the 3000 MPa range. Quick and dirty conversion yields ~300 Knoop/Vickers; right?
That sounds reasonable.
BUT, we're getting 6500 MPA for the ENIG. Is this even possible? Does anyone know if it is an indication of poor IAu? Or maybe a poor nano-indentation tester?
Thanks,
Chris
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