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As a further comment on the posting below, I believed one of the current
immersion silver finishes was not in fact a pure silver deposit, but
rather used a co-deposited antitarnish to stop silver migration. This
seemed plausible enough, what do other silver finishes use? Has anybody
tested all of them?

Dr Thomas Peters





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Subject:        Re: [TN] silver migration



Earl,

Out of the two commercially available immersion silver processes at
least
one was proven not to exhibit electromigration in numerous studies
carried
out by some of the most reputable independent labs in the country.  For
details please contact me off line.

Eric Yakobson




[log in to unmask] on 11/20/98 05:36:32 PM

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Subject:  [TN] silver migration




Joe,

It seems the issue is dead and buried except many of us would like to
use
such a good conductor. I
can only recount the "good old days" at Sperry Flight Systems (in the
'60's
and beyond) when we were
all taught about silver migration. We were assured there was no way
silver
could be used as a
conductor or conductive coating because of the issue in question.
Therefore, palladium/silver
compositions were developed and used on PCB's and hybrid thick film
circuitry. This minimized the
effect until gold became the conductor of choice.

It's amazing how nothing is really new. It just keeps on coming around.

I understand today's immersion silver, in such small amounts and
thicknesses, does not pose
migration problems. However, I also would like to know about the work
done
to prove or disprove the
facts.

Earl Moon

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