Electronics Forum | Sat Mar 15 20:24:13 EST 2003 | ramanandkini
Thanks Mr.Dave. Sorry for the delay. One of our major prolems in ENIG plated surface is that wire does not stick. For many years we were getting a bond strength of 14 grams in both ENIG and electroplated surfaces. Now one vendor supplies ENIG boards
Electronics Forum | Mon Mar 07 15:41:50 EST 2005 | John M
Is anyone aware of standards which would identify the clean room requirements for the wire bonding process ?
Electronics Forum | Wed Dec 28 03:33:31 EST 2005 | sparrow
I would like to know if ENIG is widely used for the thermosonic gold wire bonding or this application is an exotic one. And I also wold like to talk to someone who uses printed circuits with ENIG finish for such an application. I do not quite underst
Electronics Forum | Wed Dec 28 21:18:12 EST 2005 | davef
You don't TS bond gold wire to nickel [of ENIG] for the same reason that you don't TS bond gold wire to hard gold. [Nickel or maybe cobalt is used to harden soft gold.] Together nickel and gold produce unreliable bonds. Look here: * http://www.smta.
Electronics Forum | Mon Mar 07 21:37:42 EST 2005 | ABHI
It depends on your product requirements. I have seen aluminium wire bonding operations in as high as class 100K clean rooms. These are the assembly areas for calculators. The best is class 10K clean room for wire bonding. You can go upto fine pitch w
Electronics Forum | Tue Dec 27 10:00:19 EST 2005 | sparrow
Hello, does anybody have experience in thermosonic gold wire bonding to electroless nickel/immersion gold?? regards, Sergey
Electronics Forum | Thu Dec 29 03:57:16 EST 2005 | sparrow
Hello Chris, To be honest, it's hard to believe you could not bond to ENIG at all. Yes, the gold layer is thin and hard, but it just narrows the process window and does not make the bonding impossible. I say this, because we have been using TS gold w
Electronics Forum | Sun May 26 10:21:46 EDT 2002 | V.RAMANAND KINI
We buy PCBs for aluminium wire bonding. Our PCBs have 0.25 mm square pads for bonding and 0.10 or 0.15 mm gap between circuit traces/tracks. We do not have any problem. Our vendor gives 9 microns of Nickel and 0.03 microns of gold.
Electronics Forum | Wed Dec 28 16:03:53 EST 2005 | Chris
I have lots of experience with thermosonic gold ball bonding. You can read the literature and you will probably find some papers that say you can do it. I have never been able to do it. We gold ball bond all day long with little problems at all bu
Electronics Forum | Tue Dec 27 14:51:49 EST 2005 | davef
What's the issue and situation?
