“…Practically, in annealed CCA wires only three IMC are often observed (Al2Cu, AlCu and Al4Cu9) [13,[19][20][21], but it should be noted that in few cases other configurations have been reported involving Al3Cu4 [7][8][9][10][11], Al2Cu3 [22], or the absence of AlCu [22,23]. In any case, the reaction is governed by bulk diffusion and the energy of formation for the growth of the most common IMC are 117 kJ/mol, 107 kJ/mol and 90 kJ/mol for Al2Cu, Al4Cu9 and AlCu, respectively [13].…”