Partial discharge testing of solder fillets on PCBs in a partial vacuum: New experimental results

IEEE Transactions on Electronics Packaging Manufacturing

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 294-304

  Capineri, Lorenzo ^a   Dainelli, Gabriele ^a   Materassi, Maurizio ^a   Dunn, Barrie D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

High voltage systems; Partial discharges; Printed circuit board; Solder fillets

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; EPOXY RESINS; GLASS FIBERS; PARTIAL DISCHARGES; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL NOISE MEASUREMENT; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; VACUUM;

AUTOMATIC MEASURING SYSTEMS; CORONA EXTINCTION VOLTAGE; CORONA INCEPTION VOLTAGE; FIBERGLASS EPOXY; HIGH VOLTAGE SYSTEMS; SOLDER FILLETS;

PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARDS;

EID: 1242286455     PISSN: 1521334X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TEPM.2003.820822     Document Type: Article

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