Aimtec’s App note on addressing product failures caused by Tin whiskers. Link here Tin whiskers are slim metallic filaments that emanate from the surface of tin plating. As they are conductive, they can cause shorts across adjacent conductors which could result in failure. Whiskers occurs due to the presence of compressive stress or so called […]
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App note: Tin whiskers are real and complex
This app note discusses the problems caused by the removal of lead from electronics and ways to mitigate tin whiskers: “Tin whiskers” is not an imaginative, fanciful term for some aspect of electronics manufacturing. Tin whiskers are real. They are microscopic conductive fibers emanating from pure tin surfaces, and they pose a serious problem to […]