[SI-LIST] Re: si-list Digest V5 #82
- From: <Aubrey_Sparkman@xxxxxxxx>
- To: <wrobelc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <si-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 10:53:50 -0600
The science: Nickel has a Ur which is NOT =3D 1.
But good luck finding out what the Ur is since MANY things alter that
value.
Aubrey Sparkman=20
Enterprise Engineering Signal Integrity Team
Dell, Inc.=20
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From: si-list-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:si-list-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Clayton Wrobel
Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2005 7:21 AM
To: si-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [SI-LIST] Re: si-list Digest V5 #82
If you are using ENIG (electroless nickel immersion gold), which I
beleive is the most common soft gold finish, it isn't the gold layer you
have to worry about, but the nickel.
The gold is only 0.05 um in thickness, but the nickel is 3 um according
to IPC 2221. I read an article about a year ago, I don't have it handy,
that explained the science of why it was so bad. Perhaps somone here
remembers it and has access to it.
Clayton Wrobel
From: si-list-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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On Behalf Of richard moffat
Sent: Monday, February 21, 2005 2:23 PM
To: si-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [SI-LIST] Skin Effect, Au, and Cu
Hi all
This discussion developed in another forum, so I thought I'd throw
it
into this one to get some more comments.
For GHz signals, some people leave off the resist covering and have
traces gold-plated instead: "At high enough frequencies (we do 18
GHZ
on rogers) the soldermask changes the impedance of the line." I have
a
bit of trouble with this reasoning, as (non-corroded) copper has
less
resistivity than gold. =3D20
I would have thought that copper at skin effect freqs would be a
better
conductor than gold. Is the loss due to the soldermask coating
greater
than the skin effect loss at very high frequencies?
Cheers,
Richard
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