The interrelation between adhesion, contact creep, and roughness on the life of gold contacts in radio-frequency microswitches

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 100, Issue 9, 2006, Pages

  Gregori, Giuliano ^a   Clarke, David R ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR FESTKÖRPERFORSCHUNG   (Germany)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADHESION; CREEP; PLASTICITY; POLYCRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; STICTION; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

ADHESIVE FORCE; GOLD CONTACTS; MICROSWITCHES; PLASTICITY INDEX;

SWITCHES;

EID: 33751111918     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2363745     Document Type: Article

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