Doping-induced simultaneous improvement of strength and ductility in ultrafine grained gold wires

Journal of Materials Research

Volumn 21, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 2345-2353

  Chew, Y H ^a   Wong, C C ^b   Breach, C D ^a   Wulff, F ^a   Lew, T Y ^b  

^a Kulicke and Soffa SEA Pte Ltd   (Singapore)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOPING (ADDITIVES); DUCTILITY; GOLD; PLASTICITY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TENSILE STRENGTH;

GOLD WIRES; GRAIN REFINEMENT; GRAIN SIZE DISTRIBUTIONS;

WIRE;

EID: 33845679737     PISSN: 08842914     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1557/jmr.2006.0282     Document Type: Article

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