I ‎said :" Ni in general is solderable". 

BTW, the rate of dissolution isn't that important for soldering. The system must have intermetallics from soldering point of view.

Regards,

Vladimir
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From: Stadem, Richard D.
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Nickel is quite soluble in solder if not oxidized. There are many methods of preventing oxidation, including immersion gold plating (standard ENIG), OSP, and other organic or polymer coatings that are pre-stripped just prior to processing. This is very common.
I am just clarifying this for those who may not understand this thread because your emails seem to indicate that nickel is not solderable, period.
While nickel's rate of dissolution into molten solder is much slower than copper, silver, or gold, it is still quite solderable if not oxidized, and must be protected.

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Subject: Re: [TN] Solderable Nickel?

We are on the same wavelength then:-). In essence, everyone literally solder either to Cu or your Ni.

There are only two ways of soldering to Ni I can think of: either have a rather strong flux (as you pointed out), or have something like "OSP" preserving its surface. ‎I've never heard of such thing though but it doesn't mean it can not exist.


Regards,

Vladimir
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Hi Vlad - let's characterize nickel this way: in general, nickel is solderable with the aggressive fluxes. The majority of the flux formulations used by many of the High Performance OEMs are ROL0 materials which traditionally were not very compatible with nickel surface finishes.
The flux formulations being used are not aggressive. So I have the some question as Ben - what's different about these new "solderable nickel"
surface finishes? I have subjected them to 150C bake for 4 hours and they meet the IPC-JSTD-002 testing criteria. Pretty impressive.

Dave

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> Ni in general is solderable. The clues to on is "for how long"! Are 
> you sure the parts font have a thin layer of Sn over Ni?
>
> ‎Regards,
>
> Vladimit
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> TechNetters,
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> I've received several components recently that were plated with 
> 'solderable nickel' and to my surprise they soldered just fine (using 
> a
> ROL0 flux).
> Anyone know what is going on to keep the nickel from oxidizing?
>
> Ben
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