Overheating of flexible tinned copper connectors

IEEE Transactions on Components and Packaging Technologies

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 384-388

  Braunovic, Milenko ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (Cameroon)

^b MB Interface   (Canada)

Author keywords

Differential thermal expansion; Flexible connectors; Fretting; Intermetallics; Overheating; Stress relaxation; Tin plating

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENTIAL THERMAL EXPANSION; FLEXIBLE TINNED COPPER CONNECTORS; FRETTING; OVERHEATING;

COPPER; CORROSION; ELECTRIC CONTACTS; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; ELECTROPLATING; INTERMETALLICS; STRESS RELAXATION; THERMAL EFFECTS; THERMAL EXPANSION; TIN; VIBRATIONS (MECHANICAL);

ELECTRIC CONNECTORS;

EID: 0035440573     PISSN: 15213331     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/6144.946484     Document Type: Article

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