CONDUCTIVE FILAMENT FORMATION IN
PRINTED WIRING BOARDS
 
Bi-Chu Wu1, Michael Pecht1 and David Jennings2
1CALCE Electronic Packaging Research Center
University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742
2Collins Divisions, Rockwell International
Cedar Rapids, Iowa 52498

 

Abstract

 In this paper the preliminary results of a study to characterize the conductive filament formation (often called metal migration) of woven fabric printed wiring boards with respect to resin material, board surface coating, applied bias, geometry of the electrodes and spacing between the electrodes are presented. The experiments were accelerated life tests at controlled temperature-humidity-voltage conditions.