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What about the silver/tin couple? This may potentially (no pun intended)
be sufficient to create electrolytic corrosion at 0.987 volts.
Thanks for bringing up the crevice corrosion issue; I admit to be
totally ignorant of this and am hungry to learn more. However, the
original post does bring up galvanic corrosion.
Brian
On 23/04/2015 17:47, David Hillman wrote:
> Hi folks - the problem isn't so much a galvanic corrosion issue but really
> a crevice corrosion issue coupled with plating bath parameter control. The
> NASA DoD Lead-free Solder Consortia experienced this issue on a number of
> its test vehicles. The problem primarily impacts plated thru hole
> technology but has been also observed with surface mount technology. Using
> teardrop shaped pads gives the board fabricator a bit more process
> robustness. I haven't seen much publication of this issue yet in the public
> domain but it is a known issue in the industry for folks using immersion
> silver surface finishes. Details on this issue were documented in the NASA
> DoD Lead-free Solder Consortia final report.
>
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> Dave Hillman
> Rockwell Collins
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> On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 9:29 AM, Brian Ellis <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> The likelihood of electrolytic corrosion on a silver/copper couple is
>> really negligible, because the EMF difference is only 0.485 V, referred to
>> hydrogen equals 0 V. This is insufficient to dissociate most ions.
>>
>> On 23/04/2015 15:59, MacFadden, Todd wrote:
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>>> Hello Technet friends,
>>>
>>> We are usually asked by our PCB suppliers to add teardrops (track
>>> expansion) to thin traces (<=5mil) at soldermask openings. We understand
>>> the impetus for this on immersion silver boards, where there is a risk of
>>> galvanic corrosion due to Cu-Ag couple at the soldermask/Cu interface of
>>> SMT pads.
>>>
>>> But some suppliers also ask for track expansion on OSP boards. What would
>>> be the motivation in this case? My understanding is the risk of corrosion
>>> at the soldermask interface on OSP boards is low, even if the soldermask
>>> undercut is severe. So is there perhaps some other reliability advantage to
>>> having wider copper at trace/pad interfaces on otherwise thin traces? Do
>>> others get this question as well?
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance for any thoughts or insight.
>>>
>>> Todd MacFadden
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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