Hi Steve,
No - this area is definitely a wire bond chip area - I cannot understand the
rationale behind this drawing call-out. Regards Steve Kelly

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From: TechNet [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Steven Creswick
Sent: March-31-10 7:56 PM
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Subject: Re: [TN] Wire bondable gold

Steve,

It is possible that the underlying electroless gold [many times harder than
#%$! and generally not bondable for TS gold ...... I know, I may take some
heat for that comment] is there for a wiping contact application.  

Being quite hard [generally], the electroless holds up well beneath the soft
gold.  The soft gold may even act as a 'lubricant' for a limited number of
matings.

Meanwhile, everywhere else it is wire bondable!  

50µin of pure soft gold is a bonder [persons] ultimate dream surface!

Gold embrittlement of solder joints ... well, that's a whole other story..

Steve Creswick
http://www.linkedin.com/in/stevencreswick


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From: TechNet [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Steve Kelly
Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2010 3:20 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: [TN] Wire bondable gold

Hi all,

Anyone know a reason why a customer would call up 20 micro inches of
electroless gold followed by 50 micro inches of electroplated soft gold for
thermosonic gold wire bonding? Is there an advantage to having the
electroless underneath?

Regards Steve Kelly













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