Stability and contact resistance failure criteria

IEEE Transactions on Components and Packaging Technologies

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 326-332

  Malucci, Robert D ^a  

^a RD Malucci Consulting   (United States)

Author keywords

Contact resistance; Contact stability; Heating and thermal runaway

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; FAILURE ANALYSIS;

CONTACT RESISTANCE; CONTACT STABILITY; THERMAL RUNAWAY;

ELECTRIC CONTACTS;

EID: 33744829536     PISSN: 15213331     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCAPT.2006.875879     Document Type: Article

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